Platform Engineer

Job Description

Platform Engineer

$150,000 - $175,000 + super + ESOP

Sydney, 3 days in office, 2 from home

You’ve probably been keeping half an eye out for a role where you can actually see the impact of your engineering work. Somewhere that isn’t drowning in process, legacy, or twelve layers of “alignment meetings”. If that’s you, this might be a very welcome upgrade.

This is a new Platform team inside a dev-driven scale-up operating across four continents and fifteen data centres. Shipping into an ISO27001 / SOC2 world, where the customers are governments, legal teams, and enterprises that don’t mess around. The feedback loop is short : you build something, users feel it, and you actually know you’ve moved the needle.

The day-to-day is classic Platform engineering : shaping the Kubernetes and AWS foundations, improving internal tooling, levelling up observability, tightening security and networking, and helping teams design infra that won’t fall over when the customer base surges. It’s broad work, which means broad generalists thrive here.

You’ll probably have five to ten years working in Cloud or Platform roles, comfortable across infra, containers, networking, and security. The fun part is the problem set : “we’ve got X happening in production with Y data and Z users, how do we solve it?” You’ll play architect, engineer, and advisor in the same week.

There’s mentorship from Staff and Senior Engineers, ownership of projects from the moment you’re ready, and real progression pathways as the team grows. This is the part of a company’s story where joining early actually matters.

If you’re curious, reach out. A CV is great, but a message works just as well, happy to share the full story before you commit to anything.

You can contact me with your questions via email, Julien@theonset.com.au or call me on 0406 158 832.