Platform Engineer

  • Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Contract
  • Negotiable
  • Scripting (automation), cloud platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code, Linux systems administration
  • 6 month contract
  • Canberra location – onsite
  • Must hold NV1 clearance

Our Client

Our client is a large federal government agency with the primary role to defend Australian interests and promote stability and security through the provision of support to the Australian community and civilian authorities, as well as the provision of strategic policy and intelligence activities.

The Role

Join a nationally significant program uplift that is accelerating the delivery of intelligence mission data capabilities. As the Platform Engineer, you’ll be pivotal in building reliable, scalable and secure platforms that get the right data to operational systems-on time and in the right format-directly strengthening situational awareness and mission outcomes.

Your duties will include:

  • Configuring, deploying and maintaining enterprise platform services.
  • Automating infrastructure provisioning and environment builds.
  • Designing, implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
  • Ensuring reliability, scalability, performance and security of services.
  • Applying monitoring, incident management and hardening practices.
  • Proactively identifying technical risks and coordinating with stakeholders to mitigate them.

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

  • Strong scripting for automation (e.g., shell/Python) and systems tooling.
  • Hands-on experience with major cloud platforms and secure on-prem environments.
  • Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform/Ansible) and configuration management.
  • Solid Linux systems administration across build, deploy and run phases.
  • Practical experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
  • Exposure to security controls, monitoring/alerting, incident response and platform hardening.

Application Process

If you would like to apply for this opportunity, pleas click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

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