Platform Engineer

**Platform Engineer | Kubernetes | GCP/AWS | Financial Services** JS Careers is partnering with a global financial services organisation in Sydney on a Platform Engineer opportunity. The role sits within a cloud engineering team that owns the foundations every other development team builds on. It would suit someone who enjoys automating environments end-to-end, building reliable delivery pipelines and being the engineer other teams rely on. You'll be building and evolving a platform that supports a wider engineering function across multiple product teams. The environment is diverse in terms of the tech stack, and there is a strong push towards AI-assisted engineering at every stage of the SDLC. **What you'll be doing:** * Design, build and maintain automation to stand up **GCP** and **Kubernetes** (GKE) environments end-to-end * Build and harden secure, automated CI/CD pipelines for containerised services * Build monitoring, alerting and logging into environments from the ground up * Lead incident response and drive continuous improvement in operational maturity * Reduce manual toil through scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go) * Develop tooling to streamline system and data migrations onto modern containerised platforms * Integrate core platform components including API gateways, event-driven architectures and messaging queues * Work closely with engineering teams to break down ambiguous, multi-system problems and solve them systematically **What we're looking for:** * Production experience orchestrating containerised workloads with **Kubernetes** (GKE preferred, EKS highly regarded) * Strong hands-on experience managing and scaling cloud infrastructure on **GCP** or **AWS** * Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or Bitbucket * Practical experience with monitoring, observability and incident response * Scripting capability in Python, Bash or Go * Exposure to API gateways, event-driven patterns and messaging queues * Comfort working in an AI-assisted engineering environment, with a strong focus on quality and security * Clear communication skills and a proactive, accountable approach to problem-solving You don't need deep experience across every part of the stack; we're open to hearing from people who can adapt and grow into the role. If you're looking for a hands-on Platform Engineer role where you'll own the foundations that other teams build on, we'd love to hear from you.