Your new company

Victorian State Government client based in Geelong CBD.

What you'll get in return

- Initial contract till 30 June 2027 + potential extensions.
- $700 - $950
- Hybrid role

Your new role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, your primary purpose will be to develop, support, and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform systems – specifically relating to Amazon Web Services, Open Shift – as well as products such as MuleSoft, Jenkins and Salesforce. This includes contributing to design, proactive administration, availability and recovery planning, performance monitoring and tuning, capacity planning and security reviews, all using industry best practices.

Role and responsibilities:

1. Deploy and maintain applications and assist the product teams in solution design.
2. Improve availability, scalability and performance of the applications deployed on the engineering platform
3. Accountable for creating and capturing accurate and complete records of the business activities related to this position, in accordance with approved policy and procedures. This is applicable to both hardcopy and electronic information, including email
4. Treat the Platform as a Product: Actively gather feedback from internal delivery teams, track adoption, and iterate on the platform's features. Debug production issues across platform services and where possible partner with product engineers. Incident response, root cause analysis and driving remediation of incidents.
5. Design Golden Paths: Establish pre-approved, automated workflows (like standard CI/CD pipelines or service templates) so developers can ship code safely and quick.
6.



Automate and Provision: Maintain services using infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform.
7. Enforce Security and Governance: Embed compliance, security policies, and cost-tracking guardrails directly into the platform.

What you need to succeed

1. Ability to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and highly available engineering platforms supporting enterprise applications and services.
2. Demonstrated experience in implementing and managing cloud infrastructure using cloud platforms, preferably AWS as well as platform services that improve software delivery velocity, operational efficiency, and organisational resilience.
3. Proven ability to contribute to technical documentation, standards, governance frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives.
4. Experience working within Agile delivery environments and applying contemporary engineering practices, including version control, automated testing, and release management.
5. Experience in implementing security best practices, privileged access management, secrets management, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.
6. Knowledge of DevSecOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and platform engineering principles, including reliability, scalability, automation, and self-service enablement.
7. Ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and influence engineering outcomes through collaboration.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click “Apply” or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to Neeta at Neeta.Sharma@@hays.com.au

📌 Platform Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Hays
📍 Melbourne