Job Description

Role: Senior Platform Engineer

Locations: Melbourne or Ballarat

Duration: Contract – 12 months

Talent Street is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer for one of our large Victorian State government clients.

Role purpose: 

The primary purpose of this role is to develop, support, and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform systems – specifically relating to Oracle OCI, focusing on DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security and cloud operations. This includes contributing to design, proactive administration, availability and recovery planning, performance monitoring and tuning, capacity planning and security reviews, all using industry best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a secure, stable, scalable, and highly available cloud environment.
• Serve as the key technical contact for cloud service providers.
• Provide support and development services for cloud environment and platforms, including day-to-day operations, maintenance, project build/support, troubleshooting, capacity management, systems integration, disaster recovery and business continuity processes.
• Provide third level support and development services for the cloud environment.
• In conjunction with Network Specialists and Cyber Security team provide security and intrusion prevention/protection to Cloud Services.
• Support technical innovation and efficiency through the implementation of agreed cloud technologies.
• Ensure cloud services are integrated with BTS operational monitoring systems and maintain reports on cloud performance, costs, capacity usage and capacity forecasts.
• Assist in the preparation of incident analysis and post implementation review reports to provide advice to senior management.

Key Selection Criteria:

1. High level technical expertise in the support and monitoring of cloud infrastructure, demonstrated experience working with cloud computing and DevSecOps, in particular Oracle Cloud Infrastructure core components.
2. Demonstrated experience in general system administration, Unix/Linux administration and associated application support, monitoring/management products.
3. Demonstrated experience in and knowledge of cloud security practices.
4. Demonstrated high-level conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
5. Effective communication (written, verbal, and interpersonal) and negotiation skills, with the ability to prepare written reports, consult and communicate effectively, influence others, and manage relationships with key stakeholders.

Qualifications and Training: 

Highly desirable

• Cloud computing orientated certifications such as Oracle OCI Practitioner, ISC (2) CCSP.
• Software development experience with DevOps practices
• Formal training in cloud computing products and services, cloud infrastructure/environment design and project management – ideally, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and related products.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or relevant industry certifications and experience.

Please apply now or contact Cheska Mitra, Delivery Consultant @ Talent Street on cmitra@talentstreet.com.au for further information.