About Compare Club

Compare Club provides comparison services across a broad range of household expense categories aimed at making it easier for consumers to make the right purchasing decisions, providing them more value and peace of mind. We have over 500 employees across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and around the world. Everything we do is aimed at helping customers save money on household bills.

About the Role

We are seeking a deeply hands‑on Lead Cloud Platform Engineer to lead our DevOps team and drive the day‑to‑day engineering of Compare Club’s cloud platform. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role rather than a management role: you will spend around seventy per cent of your time building, automating and engineering, and the remainder leading and developing two experienced DevOps engineers based in Vietnam.

You will join a platform mid‑transformation. Our AWS estate spans a modern, Terraform‑managed ECS and Fargate environment alongside an Elastic Beanstalk estate that is being modernised, with delivery moving from AWS CodePipeline to GitHub Actions and GitOps. All of this operates under live ISO 27001:2022 and PCI DSS v4.0.1 certification, with Essential Eight, APRA CPS 234 and Australian Privacy Principles obligations on top.

You will own the engineering standards and the delivery of the platform roadmap, finish the modernisation, strengthen our security and resilience posture, and establish genuine cost and operational discipline. You will report to the Senior Manager – DevOps and Quality Engineering, who leads cloud infrastructure, DevOps and observability alongside Quality Engineering as a separate team. Larger architectural decisions go to our Architecture Review Board.





Automation is central to how we expect this role to work. We want manual operational effort designed out rather than absorbed, and we are actively investing in AI across the business — so we are looking for someone who will bring AI and agentic automation into how the platform is operated, not only into what it hosts.

A core early expectation is that you become a credible operator across both build and run, so that ownership of every part of our platform is shared across the team.

This role suits an experienced senior engineer ready to step up into leading a team, or an established lead who wants to stay close to the technology rather than move further into management.

Key accountabilities

- Technical Leadership and Engineering Standards: Own the team’s engineering standards and the platform roadmap, and be the first escalation point for cloud platform matters.
- AI and Automation: Design out manual effort through Python, Bash and agentic automation, and own the foundations for our AI workloads on AWS Bedrock and SageMaker.
- Platform Modernisation and Delivery Engineering: Complete the move to GitHub Actions and GitOps, and bring our remaining Elastic Beanstalk estate under Terraform.
- Reliability, Observality and Incident Response: Define SLOs, improve observability and alerting, lead major incident response and establish an after-hours on‑call rotation.
- Security,



Compliance and Resilience: Maintain the engineering controls behind our ISO 27001 and PCI DSS certifications, and strengthen secrets, access and edge protection.
- Cloud Cost Stewardship: Build cost visibility and ownership across the platform, and deliver savings, including on AI and ML workloads.
- Leadership of the DevOps Team: Lead and mentor two DevOps engineers in Vietnam, and share ownership of every production domain across the team.

What You Bring

You are a senior, deeply hands‑on cloud engineer with typically eight or more years in infrastructure, DevOps or platform engineering, including recent delivery in a production AWS environment of real complexity. You are just as comfortable in a terminal as in a design review, and you want to keep building rather than move into full‑time management.

- Amazon Web Services: Deep, current, production experience across compute, networking, data and edge services. Our estate is built on ECS (EC2 and Fargate), Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, API Gateway, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, IAM Identity Center, SSM and Secrets Manager. We do not run Kubernetes; strong ECS experience is what matters here, although Kubernetes depth transfers well.
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform at shared‑module‑library scale, including versioned modules, remote state, drift management and infrastructure‑as‑code security scanning such as Checkov. Experience bringing an existing estate under infrastructure‑as‑code control is highly valued.
- Delivery Engineering: Solid command of Git and GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, OIDC federation, GitOps deployment patterns, and blue/gre

📌 Lead Cloud Platform Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Compare Club
📍 Sydney