Senior Platform Engineer
Role Overview
Build cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and CI/CD pipelines that enable engineering squads to ship quickly on a trusted platform.
Lead the future design of production infrastructure for scale and automate administrative work that supports rapid growth.
Report to the Director of Technical Operations and partner with engineering squads, Staff Engineers, and Tech Leads.
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The role
Build cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and CI/CD pipelines that enable engineering squads to ship quickly on a trusted platform.
Lead the future design of production infrastructure for scale and automate administrative work that supports rapid growth.
Report to the Director of Technical Operations and partner with engineering squads, Staff Engineers, and Tech Leads.
What You’ll Be Working On
- Design and deploy production cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform with a focus on scale, reliability, and availability.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code with Terraform to create reproducible, auditable, automated server infrastructure.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, security controls, observability, incident response, and cloud cost efficiency.
- Partner with engineering squads on platform friction, roadmap planning, legacy component removal, and long-term production fixes.
What We're Looking For
- At least 5 years of systems or software engineering experience focused on SRE and DevOps paradigms.
- Deep hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience is required.
- Strong proficiency with Cloudflare, WAF configurations, and API Gateway management.
- Proven production Terraform experience, including complex state management, and experience designing team CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on Docker and Linux experience. Kubernetes is not required, and Python knowledge is preferred.
- Experience improving security, disaster recovery, vulnerability remediation, identity and access management, and least-privilege controls.
- Ability to own a broad scope, adapt as the organization changes, and communicate clearly across technical and non-technical teams.
Where you'll work
- This is a Sydney-based hybrid role combining office and home working.
- The office is located above Wynyard station, and the company values in-person collaboration.
A few good things
- Development opportunities include lunch and learns, secondments, and unlimited learning courses via Go1.
- Flexible working, employee discounts of up to 50%, product samples, pawrental and wellbeing leave, volunteer days, and a fitness partnership are offered.
About Pet Circle
Pet Circle is an Australian online pet retailer founded in Sydney in 2011 and operating across Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
The company is building technology-enabled pet care experiences through convenience, expert advice, personalization, and reliable delivery.
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