Nearmap is unique. An Australian global technology company with incredible people; a market-leader with energy and spirit. Nearmap was named as one of the world’s 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2020 by Fast Company magazine – and we’re growing.

Nearmap provides a virtual model of the real world – at a scale and detail that hasn’t been done before. Our ambition is to be the source of truth that shapes our liveable world. At Nearmap, we have an appetite for energetic and engaged people and we are currently seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to join our DevOps team.

What you’ll do

As Principal Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll own the cloud foundation that Nearmap AI runs on. You’ll lead a team of up to three engineers, set the technical direction for the infrastructure layer beneath our machine learning platform, and stay hands-on in the systems you design.

This is a leadership role for a seasoned engineer who thinks in systems. Nearmap captures and processes aerial imagery at a scale that breaks most infrastructure: thousands of EKS nodes running batch inference, GPU fleets spanning two clouds, and production model endpoints behind customer products. Someone has to make that substrate reliable, secure, and affordable. That’s you.

Reporting to the Director, AI Systems Engineering, you work side by side with the Principal AI Platform Engineer. They build the machine learning platform: workflow orchestration, distributed training, serving, and LLMOps. You build what it stands on: the Kubernetes fleet across AWS and GCP, GPU‑capable compute, networking, identity, infrastructure as code, CI/CD,



and the observability and security foundations every AICV service depends on.

To be clear about the boundary: you own the infrastructure platform, not the machine learning tooling that runs on it, and not the customer‑facing AI products. Your first customer is AICV, and it is the most demanding infrastructure customer we have. What proves out there sets the pattern for the wider Nearmap developer platform, so you’ll co‑own standards, paved paths, and shared components with the Platform team in ETO.

Day to day, you’ll:

- Own the technical direction for cloud infrastructure across AICV: Kubernetes fleet design on EKS and GKE, compute, networking, identity, and storage.

- Design and operate GPU‑capable compute — node pools, drivers, device plugins, autoscaling, and multi‑tenant isolation — so the AI platform team schedules against it without thinking about the hardware.

- Make the critical infrastructure design calls, and run technical evaluation and build‑versus‑buy with the Director and your AI platform counterpart.

- Lead and mentor a team of up to three platform engineers, and own technical hiring for the team.

- Write and own Terraform for the whole footprint, and build the self‑service paths that let AICV teams provision what they need without raising a ticket.





- Build the CI/CD and observability foundations that AICV services and the ML platform rely on: pipelines, metrics, logs, and traces.

- Own reliability and cost for the infrastructure layer: service level objectives, cloud spend across AWS and GCP, capacity, and major incident response. You are on call for what you build.

- Co‑own the standards and paved paths of the wider Nearmap developer platform with the Platform team in ETO, so AICV patterns become company patterns.

Cloud security

- Least‑privilege identity across AWS and GCP, secrets management, network segmentation, and private connectivity between clouds.

- Supply chain and workload security for the fleet: container image scanning, admission policy, runtime controls, and CVE response.

- Encryption, key management, and access control over the imagery and model artefacts AICV trains and infers on.

- Controls enforced in code and in the pipeline, so the secure path is the default path.

About you

- You’re a systems thinker. You see the whole stack, and you know which layer a problem actually belongs to.

- You build platforms, not tickets. You’d rather ship something a team can self‑serve on than be the person they have to ask.

- You’re a cooperative leader. You elevate your team by sharing knowledge, setting high standards, and fostering an environment where the best ideas win.

- You take ultimate ownership. You’re relentless about reliability, security, and cost for everything you and your team run.

- You’re a builder first. You’ve earned the right to set direction because you’ve operated the systems you’re now des

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