AWS Platform Engineer

AWS Platform Engineer About us BGL delivers software solutions to over 12,700 businesses in 15 countries through its user-friendly and highly intelligent web applications, combining amazing UX with powerful technology We’re a global team of professionals based in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the United Kingdom. With a strong reputation for excellence, we deliver high-quality Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions to the accounting industry, specialising in self-managed superannuation funds and corporate compliance. We’re proud to celebrate achievements that reflect our culture and our people, including: Great Place to Work certificationAFR Best Places to Work (Technology, Top 10)Mental Health First Aid Workplace RecognitionAustralia’s Best Workplaces™ for Women listAFR BOSS Most Innovative Companies – ranked four times in six years Culture & Benefits We take pride in continuously building and improving our culture, and we welcome people who share our values. We regularly seek feedback through engagement surveys, 1:1s, focus groups, and even casual coffee catch-ups. Our average employee tenure of 6+ years is a testament to the supportive and rewarding environment we’ve created—and we’ve got plenty of exciting things planned for the future! Benefits you’ll enjoy include: Extra time off with additional annual leave, RDOs, and the option to purchase extra leaveHybrid working arrangements for all employeesLearning and development opportunities, including annual development budgets, tailored development plans, paid study leave, and stretch opportunitiesRegular social activities, from monthly team lunches to annual company-wide eventsComprehensive health and wellbeing programs, including EAP, flu shots, and run clubPaid volunteering leave to give back to the community About the role: This is a hands-on DevOps role for a platform engineer who loves making cloud environments faster, safer and more reliable. You'll own and improve our AWS platform, automate how we build and ship, and work shoulder to shoulder with developers to help them prototype, debug and deploy with confidence. If you get a kick out of solving tough infrastructure problems, stripping friction out of the pipeline and seeing your improvements go live in short sprint cycles, this is the role for you. (This role is know internally as DevOps Engineer.) What you’ll be doing: Keep our AWS infrastructure healthy, PaaS orchestration, build agents, and monitoring tools and dashboards across a mix of EC2 and Kubernetes-based containersDesign, build and automate internal processes, making heavy use of AWS, Terraform and a range of automation toolingBuild, maintain and troubleshoot our CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines, from Jenkins through to GitOps tools such as ArgoCD for KubernetesPartner with developers to identify, debug and resolve build, deployment and production issuesHelp developers design reliable, stable environments for new servicesGuide code through the software development lifecycle, particularly its promotion and deployment across environmentsMentor and coach team members and support leadership with day-to-day technical directionStrengthen our observability so we can detect and respond to incidents faster What we’re looking for: 3+ years’ experience in a Platform Engineer role, including commercial experience supporting Linux systems in a large-scale environmentA solid understanding of DevOps methodologies and ways of workingCommercial experience supporting applications running on AWS cloud servicesHands-on experience with Kubernetes and its surrounding ecosystemStrong scripting and automation skills to build and streamline deploymentsSubstantial hands-on experience with git and with Docker containersExperience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI or GitHub Actions) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and AnsibleAWS certification at Associate level or higherDemonstrated experience with agile ways of working, such as ScrumExcellent communication skills with the ability to work closely with developers and engineers Nice to have: Good understanding of Java, Python, Node.js or other software development languagesExperience with observability and application monitoring/profiling, using both open source and commercial monitoring toolsExperience with Agile, ITIL, security, audit, complianceExperience with SQL and/or DBMS optimisationVersed with cloud technologies and offerings (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) Please note we are only able to consider applicants with full working rights for Australia. We review applications on an ongoing basis so encourage you to apply as soon as possible.The next stage of our recruitment process will require you to complete a one way video interview.