Senior Platform Engineer (Temporary Fixed Term Full Time Opportunity)

Macquarie Park, NSW, AU, 2113

You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.

You have the opportunity to gain a wealth of expertise and a diverse range of skills, providing insight and knowledge without losing sight of your work-life balance or wellbeing.

In this role, you'll:

Designing and operating at the core of modern cloud platforms, this role builds, automates and optimises secure, scalable services across AWS and Azure to support enterprise technology delivery.

You will develop infrastructure‑as‑code, establish reusable platform patterns and guardrails, and partner with architects and engineering teams to translate designs into robust, production‑ready solutions.

Taking ownership of platform performance, reliability and security, you will drive automation, manage incidents, enable CI/CD pipelines and embed governance, cost optimisation and continuous improvement across cloud operations, ensuring high‑performing, resilient platforms that support business outcomes.

For more information on this position and business unit, view the role description and information pack.

About you

You should have strong cloud engineering expert with deep hands‑on experience across AWS and Azure, including compute, networking, containers, identity and monitoring.

Highly proficient in Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep) and scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash), with solid experience in  Kubernetes , helm , CI/CD, observability (e.g. Splunk, Dynatrace), software and configuration automation using Ansible and hybrid connectivity.

Brings a strong foundation in cloud security, IAM, SRE practices and cost optimisation, combined with excellent stakeholder communication, collaborative delivery in agile environments, and the ability to operate autonomously while driving end‑to‑end solutions.

Who we are

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day. 

Join us

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