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Platform Engineer
Open Universities Australia · Docklands, VIC, Australia
Docklands, VIC, AustraliaHybrid
Remuneration
Short-term incentives and not-for-profit salary packaging, including novated leasing
Location
Docklands, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Platform Engineer builds and improves platform services and developer tooling that help product engineering teams develop, test, deploy, and operate digital products. The role combines TypeScript software development with AWS infrastructure management, automation, CI/CD, observability, troubleshooting, and security practices. It also explores AI-assisted development and coding agents to improve software delivery workflows.
Benefits
Hybrid workWorkation leave of up to 10 days each year12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carersPurchased leaveUp to six additional paid menstrual and menopausal wellbeing days each yearInclusive leave for cultural or personal eventsOne additional paid birthday day each yearDiscounted gym memberships and health insuranceAnnual flu vaccinationsPaid Calm subscriptionSubsidised study opportunities and study leaveLearning and professional development opportunities
Qualifications
- Experience building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software services
- DevOps mindset emphasizing shared ownership, automation, fast feedback, and continuous improvement
- Hands-on AWS experience across compute, storage, networking, identity, and observability
- Experience managing infrastructure through code
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, routing, subnets, firewalls, and load balancing
- Security-minded approach to system design and engineering decisions
- Ability to turn unclear problems into practical steps and deliver them
- Curiosity about new technologies and AI-assisted development
- Interest in enabling engineers through understandable, self-service solutions
- Confidence building software in a modern programming language and willingness to become productive in TypeScript
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain platform services, APIs, developer tooling, and automation
- Work with product engineers to understand needs and remove delivery bottlenecks
- Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure as code
- Improve continuous integration, testing, deployment, and observability workflows
- Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and networking issues and contribute to incident response
- Embed security practices, including access controls, networking, secrets management, and dependency maintenance
- Turn repetitive operational work into reusable tools, documentation, and self-service capabilities
- Evaluate AWS capabilities, AI tools, and coding agents for meaningful workflow improvements
- Identify cloud cost reductions without compromising reliability or security
Skills
AWSJavaScriptTypeScriptOpenTelemetryREST
Industry
Education
Relocation
No