Senior Platform Engineer

Employment TypePermanent

Closing Date5 Mar 2025 11:59pm

Job TitleSenior Platform Engineer

Job Summary

Job Description

First Nations First

We acknowledge the First Nations Peoples of Australia as traditional owners and custodians of the land and waters. Australia’s First Peoples are the oldest continuous culture on the planet. We humbly pay respects to their Elders past and present.

About the Job

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Belong, You will

• Work in an Agile Framework to design & develop capabilities to uplift platform maturity across key pillars like Deployment/Pipeline Management, Monitoring, Log Management, Security & Compliance, Cloud Infrastructure Management and Cost-Optimisation.

• Partner with the Product Development teams by providing architectural recommendations for key projects that utilize Cloud features and infrastructure.

• Partner with the Security team and ensure all solutions follow the Security principles and best practices.

• Partner with Operations teams working on production environments, monitoring, data collection and configuration management, as well as disaster recovery planning, capacity engineering, reliability improvement initiatives and platform automation.

• Collaborate with team to create data driven DevOps, involved in measurement and analysis of high-visibility metrics to enable a proactive approach to issues.

The Platform Engineering team plays a key role in operating and managing the Cloud infrastructure that powers Belong’s large scale systems on leading edge SaaS, PaaS and iPaaS platforms. The team drives various initiatives to help optimise public cloud usage that directly impacts the company’s business metrics.

About you

You will bring in

• A systematic and logical approach to troubleshooting and solving problems.

• A desire to automate everything!

• Ability to explain complex situations using excellent written and verbal communication.

• Effective time management skills.

• Ability to create and demonstrate technical use-cases and influence stakeholders.

• Advocacy on DevOps best practices and architectural patterns.

Skills and experience

An ideal candidate for this role will have good experience on

• AWS Cloud Systems administration & cloud governance.

• AWS Cloud networking, security & cost-optimization.

• AWS Cloud identity processes and management.

• Infrastructure as Code tools like Cloudformation, Terraform.

• Source control, CI/CD tools, pipelines, automation using Jenkins/Gitlab etc.

• Container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Use of enterprise grade monitoring and logging solutions.

• Scripting in Bash, Python, Go or similar tools.

Desired qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in IT/Computer Science or related discipline

• AWS certification.

About Belong 

It feels good to bring people together.  

As a telco, we’re making our world a more inclusive place. That means giving Australians the tools they need to get things done in the digital world.

As an organization, we're focused on having customer first mindset and delivering effortless customer experiences. 

As a workplace, we’re building a community of people who bring their whole selves to work. Workplaces can be brutally bland and that’s not good for anyone. Difference makes us all better and we’re always trying to get better.

Our values 

We’re here to make our world a more inclusive place. That’s reflected in our four values: 

• We care 

• We’re better together 

• We make it simple 

• We’re change makers 

They help remind us that we care about the work we do and that, if we do it together, we can make our world a better place for our team and our customers.