
Intermediate Platform Engineer
- Sydney, NSW
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Hybrid work set up
- Paid Parental leave - 12 weeks primary, 6 weeks secondary
- Birthday leave, YOU day each year, as well as connecting people leave (up to 2 weeks working from anywhere)
- Inhouse Learning and Development initiatives
- ELMO Social and Diversity clubs
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Mental Health/EAP programs
- Flare Benefits (great discounts, novated leasing, salary sacrifice)
- Reimagine What's Possible - We believe innovation is human at its core. By staying open, fearless, and adaptive, we continuously push boundaries - while keeping people at the heart of everything we do.
- Obsess over Customers - Everything we do is designed to positively impact our customers.
- Help Others Thrive - Be they colleagues, communities or customers, we champion ways to help others thrive.
- Be Fearlessly Optimistic - We bring unwavering positivity to any challenge, as we know it will drive meaningful change.
- Understanding and supporting ELMO's infrastructure needs, utilizing cloud and automation knowledge to contribute to strategic planning and implementation for our multi-region platform serving Australia, New Zealand, and the UK.
- Contributing to infrastructure automation projects, working with senior team members to translate business requirements and technical needs into robust, scalable cloud solutions and well-defined deployment pipelines.
- Implementing platform engineering best practices, working with Infrastructure as Code, managing CI/CD pipelines, and supporting seamless deployments to ensure efficient and reliable service delivery.
- Collaborating effectively with engineering teams, client services teams, and key stakeholders to maintain exceptional platform reliability and performance.
- Supporting system security, compliance, and integration across our ISO-certified platform, from infrastructure implementation to production monitoring and incident response.
- Contributing to ELMO's commitment to data security and privacy, helping maintain our ISO 27001:2022 certification standards and supporting preparation for ISO 42001:2023 certification as we advance our AI capabilities.
- 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer or equivalent. SaaS environment experience preferred.
- Solid Kubernetes experience in production environments, including deploying applications and cluster management. EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) experience is highly regarded
- Experience working with infrastructure solutions on AWS and Kubernetes for scalable and secure production environments
- Working knowledge of CNCF ecosystem tools including Prometheus for monitoring, Flux for GitOps, and other cloud-native technologies
- Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or Pulumi for managing cloud resources and deployments
- Python programming skills for automation, tooling, and infrastructure management
- Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- SRE mindset with experience working with observability tools, preferably the Elastic Stack
- Good technical communication and documentation skills
- Analytical and problem-solving approach with experience in production systems
- Proactive attitude toward identifying infrastructure issues and implementing solutions
- Experience in a B2B SaaS environment, with multi-tenant architecture or HR technology platforms desirable
- Understanding of security best practices and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001)
- Experience working in Linux-based systems and implementing networking concepts in AWS