Platform Engineer
Posted
Summary
6-month contract Platform Engineer (extendable) at AUD 1,000/day + GST, hybrid with 2 days/week in a Sydney office. Day-to-day spans SRE and platform work: keeping production reliable on GCP, troubleshooting incidents, building Terraform IaC, and automating with Python/Bash across CI/CD and observability.
Platform Engineer | Sydney | Hybrid
6 Month Contract - opportunity for extension
Day Rate $1000 per day + GST (inclusive of super)
We're looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to join a growing technology team, focusing on platform reliability, cloud infrastructure and automation.
This role offers a mix of production support, infrastructure engineering and automation, with a strong focus on improving the reliability, scalability and performance of cloud-based platforms.
The Role
Working across SRE and Platform Engineering, you'll be responsible for:
If you're an SRE or Platform Engineer who enjoys solving complex production problems, improving infrastructure reliability and driving automation, we'd love to hear from you.
Please reach out to hayley@thedrivegroup.com.au to find out more - please provide an updated CV. You must be local to the office & have full working rights in Australia.
6 Month Contract - opportunity for extension
Day Rate $1000 per day + GST (inclusive of super)
We're looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer to join a growing technology team, focusing on platform reliability, cloud infrastructure and automation.
This role offers a mix of production support, infrastructure engineering and automation, with a strong focus on improving the reliability, scalability and performance of cloud-based platforms.
The Role
Working across SRE and Platform Engineering, you'll be responsible for:
- Maintaining the reliability, availability and performance of production environments.
- Troubleshooting production incidents, identifying root causes and implementing long-term fixes.
- Building and improving Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
- Developing automation using Python and Bash to reduce manual processes and improve efficiency.
- Supporting and optimising GCP environments, ensuring scalability, security and performance.
- Improving CI/CD pipelines and DevOps processes to support efficient application deployments.
- Implementing and enhancing monitoring, observability and reliability practices.
- Collaborating with engineering teams to introduce new infrastructure components into production and ensure they're supported operationally.
- Strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering or DevOps.
- Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Or AWS.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and Bash.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
- Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and production environments.
- Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and application issues.
- Knowledge of observability, monitoring and incident management.
- An automation-first mindset, with a focus on improving reliability and reducing manual intervention.
- Exposure to AI-driven automation or AI agents would be advantageous.
- Opportunity to work across modern cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
- A balance of operational ownership and engineering/automation projects.
- Exposure to new technologies, including AI-driven automation.
- Collaborative engineering environment with opportunities to influence technical improvements.
- Hybrid working - 2 days per week in the Sydney office.
If you're an SRE or Platform Engineer who enjoys solving complex production problems, improving infrastructure reliability and driving automation, we'd love to hear from you.
Please reach out to hayley@thedrivegroup.com.au to find out more - please provide an updated CV. You must be local to the office & have full working rights in Australia.