Jobs / Learnosity
Platform Engineering Manager
Learnosity · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney, NSW, AustraliaExp: 7-10 yrsRemote
Remuneration
Salary and package dependent on experience.
Location
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Applicants must have the right to live and work in Australia; sponsorship is not specified.
Job summary
Leads people and delivery for a distributed platform engineering team, turning technology strategy into a prioritised roadmap and owning the platform backlog, outcomes, and day-to-day technology decisions. The role develops engineers, coordinates delivery across locations, and partners closely with CloudOps to ensure services are operationally ready, while improving infrastructure automation, CI/CD, developer enablement, reliability, and release safety using AWS, Docker/ECS, Python, infrastructure-as-code, and observability tools.
Benefits
Annual leaveMilestone leavePaid sick leaveParental leaveHealth and dental insurancePension contributionsLearning and development supportEmployee Assistance ProgramFlexible work practicesCommuter benefitsModern office
Qualifications
- 7–10 years of engineering experience, including 2–3 years leading or managing engineers.
- Experience leading distributed teams across locations and time zones.
- Experience owning a delivery backlog and roadmap, ideally for a platform-as-a-product or internal developer platform.
- Strong hands-on AWS experience, including EC2, ECS, RDS, and networking.
- Experience with containerised environments, observability, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
- Strong Python skills for automation and platform tooling.
- Proven ability to make technical decisions, coach engineers, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Must have the right to live and work in Australia.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop platform engineers, including performance and career development, hiring, onboarding, and team health.
- Own and prioritise the platform backlog, roadmap, scope, dependencies, and delivery outcomes.
- Translate technology strategy into plans for infrastructure automation, CI/CD, developer enablement, tooling, release safety, and reliability.
- Make and document final platform technology decisions, resolving competing opinions and keeping work moving.
- Partner with CloudOps on monitoring, alerting, recovery, support, access, runbooks, and operational handover.
- Represent the Platform team to Engineering, Product, and other stakeholders, communicating priorities, risks, and progress.
- Establish consistent engineering standards and quality delivery practices across a distributed team.
Skills
AWSCloudFormationCloudWatchDatadogDockerECSGitHubGitHub ActionsJenkinsPythonSaltStackTerraform
Languages
Python
Industry
Education technologySaaS
Relocation
No