
Lead Platform Engineer
Fractal Analyticsalmost 2 years ago
Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Base Salary
$180k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead and architect GCP platform setup for enterprise-scale data migrations.
- Design secure cloud landing zones, infrastructure blueprints, security frameworks, compliance monitoring, and identity and access management solutions.
- Establish infrastructure as code and enterprise-wide DevOps practices using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
- Design monitoring, observability, disaster recovery, CI/CD, reliability, scalability, and cloud cost-optimization solutions.
- Lead and mentor DevOps team members, drive technical decisions, and collaborate with technical services, developers, senior management, and cross-functional teams.
- Evaluate new technologies, optimize infrastructure and processes, and resolve complex technical challenges.
Requirements
- 10–12+ years of overall experience, including 6–8 years specifically in DevOps or Data DevOps.
- Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
- Strong proficiency with Kubernetes and its ecosystem, including Docker, Helm, and Kustomize.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, cloud infrastructure at scale, enterprise DevOps practices, CI/CD workflows, observability, monitoring, and security tools.
- Advanced programming skills in Python, Java, JavaScript, and Go.
- Demonstrated ability in technical troubleshooting, requirements analysis, solution architecture, implementation, communication, coordination, and adapting to new technologies.
Benefits
- Health, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability plans, with eligibility beginning on the first day of employment.
- Eligibility for the company 401(k) plan after 30 days of employment.
- 11 paid holidays, 12 weeks of parental leave, and a flexible “free time” PTO policy.
- Full-time employment or hourly employment of more than 30 hours per week qualifies for the listed benefits.
- The stated base salary range is $180,000–$200,000, with potential eligibility for a discretionary bonus.