14 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Gather engineering requirements, triage platform requests, and convert recurring friction into platform improvements.
- Build self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable platform components that reduce ticket-driven work.
- Design, build, and maintain platform tooling and automation across the software development lifecycle.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, builds, tests, and releases through CI/CD platforms.
- Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Maintain highly available infrastructure and platform services and improve production monitoring and observability.
- Implement security controls as code, including IAM least privilege, secrets management, and container image scanning.
- Influence and educate engineering teams on platform engineering practices and cloud infrastructure security.
- Participate in design reviews and architecture decisions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or infrastructure engineering.
- 3+ years of experience with public cloud infrastructure, with AWS preferred.
- Experience designing and building application containerisation solutions with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong experience supporting Linux infrastructure and cloud-native workloads.
- Extensive experience writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code with Terraform.
- Experience designing CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools for development teams.
- Experience implementing observability tools within Kubernetes and cloud-hosted workloads.
- Scripting and deployment automation experience.
- Experience working in a highly available production environment.
- Consulting experience or experience in a company that builds and iterates at scale is advantageous.
- GitOps and progressive delivery experience, including ArgoCD or Flux, is desirable but not essential.
- Experience with internal developer platforms such as Backstage, multi-tenant Kubernetes design, or SRE practices around SLOs and error budgets is desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid flexibility is available for the role.
- Quarterly wellbeing days and four additional annual 'YOU' Days.
- Wellbeing and technology allowance.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Nearmap subscription.
- Stocked kitchen with snacks.
- In-office lunch every Tuesday and Thursday at the Sydney CBD office.
- Showers are available for employees cycling to work or using the lunchtime gym.
About Nearmap
Nearmap provides high-resolution aerial imagery and AI-driven property intelligence delivered through web applications and APIs for insurers, government agencies, and AECO organizations. The company operates a recurring subscription model for frequently updated captures and analytics that support underwriting, claims, planning, and construction. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Barangaroo, NSW, Nearmap was acquired by Thoma Bravo and serves customers across Australia, New Zealand, and North America.