Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

This is a newly created role and your chance to shape platform engineering as a discipline at Nearmap from the ground up. You'll lead the shift from a traditional DevOps model to platform-as-a-product, building the golden paths, self-service tools, and reusable components that let our engineering teams ship independently, safely, and fast. Working within the Platform team, you'll design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability platforms our engineering teams rely on daily. You'll treat the platform as a product and engineering teams as your customers, owning initiatives end to end from design through to operation, and communicating clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the business. Think a heavily customised Kubernetes implementation that teams self-serve from instead of waiting months for manual provisioning, or an alerting system that plugs straight into Slack instead of every team building their own bespoke tooling. That is the kind of platform thinking this role is about. What you'll do Treat engineering teams as customers: gather requirements, triage platform requests, and feed recurring friction back into platform improvements Build self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable platform components that reduce ticket-driven work Design, build, and maintain platform tooling and automation across the software development lifecycle Use CI/CD platforms to automate infrastructure provisioning, builds, tests, and releases Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code using Terraform as the standard for all platform changes Maintain high availability of infrastructure and platform services, and improve monitoring and observability of production systems Implement security controls as code, including IAM least-privilege, secrets management, and container image scanning Influence and educate engineering teams on platform engineering practices and cloud infrastructure security Participate in design reviews and architecture decisions About you You're an owner. You spot what's not working and fix it without waiting to be asked You welcome collaboration and bring a positive attitude to a fast-paced team You communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical people You're pragmatic, curious, and constantly improving your craft. What you'll bring 5+ years' experience in a platform engineering or infrastructure engineering role 3+ years' experience with public cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred Experience designing and building application containerisation solutions with Docker and Kubernetes Strong experience supporting Linux infrastructure and cloud native workloads Extensive experience writing and deploying Infrastructure as Code with Terraform Experience designing CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools for development teams Experience implementing observability tools within Kubernetes and cloud hosted workloads Scripting and deployment automation experience Experience working in a highly available production environment A background in consulting or at a company that builds and iterates at scale will set you up well here. Long-term BAU or highly structured environments won't be the right fit for this role. Desirable but not essential: GitOps and progressive delivery experience (ArgoCD or Flux), experience building or contributing to an internal developer platform (Backstage or equivalent), multi-tenant Kubernetes design, or SRE practices around SLOs and error budgets. Working at Nearmap We move fast, we care about craft, and we're proud of what we're building. If you're energised by turning strategy into pipeline and building real relationships with sales, we'd love to meet you. If you can see yourself working at Nearmap and feel you have the right level of experience, we invite you to get in touch. Some of our benefits Nearmap takes a holistic approach to our employees' emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Some of our current benefits include: Quarterly wellbeing day off, four additional days off annually for your 'YOU' Days Wellbeing and technology allowance Annual flu vaccinations Hybrid flexibility for this role Nearmap subscription (of course!) Stocked kitchen with access to all the snacks you need In-office lunch every Tuesday and Thursday at our Sydney CBD office Showers available for anyone cycling to work or lunchtime gym-goers! Thanks, but we got this! Nearmap does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and search firms. Please do not email or send unsolicited resumes to any Nearmap employee, location, or address. Nearmap is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Some of our benefits: Nearmap takes a holistic approach to our employees’ emotional, physical and financial wellness. Some of our current benefits include: Quarterly wellbeing day off - Four additional days off annually for your 'YOU' Days Wellbeing and technology allowance Annual flu vaccinations Hybrid flexibility for this role Nearmap subscription (of course!) Stocked kitchen with access to all the snacks you need In-office lunch every Tuesday and Thursday at our Sydney CBD office Showers available for anyone cycling to work or lunchtime gym-goers! Why you'll love working at Nearmap: We move fast and work smart; often wearing multiple hats. We’re proud of our inclusive, supportive culture, and maintain a safe environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and can be themselves. Learn More About The Work We Do YouTube Page LinkedIn Page Thanks, but we got this! Nearmap does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies and search firms. Please do not email or send unsolicited resumes to any Nearmap employee, location or address. Nearmap is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Property intelligence is reshaping how the world understands the built environment, and Nearmap is driving that. Our technology turns property uncertainty into decisive action, and our culture brings out the best in the people who build it.