Platform Engineer (AWS)

Platform Engineer (AWS)

Permanent | Melbourne (hybrid)

The opportunity
A well-established, purpose-driven organisation delivering critical digital services is building its modern platform engineering capability, and is looking for a Platform Engineer to help shape it.

This is a chance to build something that lasts: secure, reliable, self-service platform capabilities that engineering teams across the business use to build, deploy and run their services. Instead of each team reinventing the wheel, you’ll create the reusable building blocks they rely on.

What you’ll be doing

• Building self-service capabilities: reusable Infrastructure as Code modules, templates and patterns that any application team can pick up and use

• Designing, building and running the shared AWS platform: cloud infrastructure, data services and supporting tools

• Creating and improving CI/CD pipelines: security and quality controls built in from the start

• Standardising observability: logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards and alerting that teams can plug straight into

• Helping move towards a centralised, unified deployment environment

• Using automation to cut down manual effort and operational toil

• Keeping the platform healthy: availability, capacity, performance and cost, plus incident response, root cause analysis and DR testing

• Working with Architecture and Cyber Security on guardrails and standards that make delivery safe and consistent

• Listening to engineering teams to prioritise improvements and drive adoption

What you’ll bring

• Hands-on experience designing, building and operating AWS platforms and shared services

• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation)

• Experience building and running CI/CD pipelines (for example Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or GitLab)

• Scripting or programming skills to automate engineering and operational work

• Experience implementing observability: logging, metrics, tracing and alerting

• A good grasp of cloud security, reliability, incident response and disaster recovery

• A product mindset: you build for your internal customers and care about adoption

• Desirable: experience with shared data platforms, and familiarity with AI-assisted engineering

Why apply?

• A rare chance to shape platform foundations, not just maintain them

• Modern AWS-native work with real autonomy

• An organisation whose work genuinely matters to the community

• Hybrid working and a collaborative, supportive team

Background checks apply, and the role includes occasional out-of-hours support.

Interested?
Apply now, or contact Pam Caldwell at pam@ch.solutions for a confidential conversation.

CH Talent Solutions is managing this search on a retained basis.