Platform Engineer x 2 - Excellent Benefits Package

Duties will include:
• Develop and maintain detailed technical knowledge of the systems and services, including an understanding of business usage.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical standards and support documentation.
• Develop high-quality DevOps friendly platform components that bake in scalability, fault tolerance and security, providing a measurable benefit to terms of delivery time and risk to help power our digital transformation through our REST APIs and Microservices.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency by automating existing processes.
• Prioritise your workload and resolve support issues of varying severity within expected time frames. Plan and carry out tasks to ensure timely delivery of services.
• Champion best practices and provides hands-on technical support to accelerate Cloud learning among peers.
• Work with quality assurance specialists to ensure your deliverables have an appropriate level of unit-, integration- and/or functional tests.
• Identify complex risks, issues and improvement opportunities and ensure they are escalated as necessary.
• Identify, analyse, and record, document and manage complex changes in accordance with established ITIL standards and procedures.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders ensuring the governance and security posture of the platform.
• Undertake other activities as directed
• Ensure that ICT support reference materials are consistently created and maintained including network diagrams, work instructions, quick reference guides and training material.
• There is an opportunity for 2 Platform Engineers, and these roles will be primarily focused on managing the lifecycle patching required for our microservice platform including Kubernetes and supporting technologies such as EKS, Trivy, Fluentbit, kube-bench, metric server, Nginx Ingress
Requirements
• Experience in one or more of the following technologies AWS, EKS/Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the lifecycle patching required for our microservice platform
• Knowledge of Cloud environment security best practices
• Proficiency in writing easy-to-read technical documentation
• Proven ability to work autonomously and cohesively in a team-based environment
• AWS Associate or Professional level certifications highly regarded.

Please note we also have a third, shorter term, position available for those with experience installing Karpenter into AWS EKS/Kubernetes environment. Job reference TMRQJP00001024.

Current and varied experience across public and private sector is highly desirable. 

Ready to apply?  To be considered for this role you need to provide us with: 

• Your resume (maximum 5 pages)
• Cover letter
• Authority for Gilmore Resources to represent you quoting reference number TMRQJP00001023

Please provide all documents in MS Word.

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Closing date…

10.00 am Tuesday 11 June 2024

For further information please contact Sarah Handsley on 0402 297 026