[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Chosen Online Pty

Role Description

Ready to design, deploy and fully automate enterprise-grade Managed Kubernetes environments with Red Hat OpenShift at the core? This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge cloud-native technologies, drive platform innovation, and help customers accelerate their digital transformation journeys. You'll be part of a collaborative, high-performing team committed to technical excellence, automation, and continuous learning.

We’re hiring Senior Platform Engineers who will:

• Design, deploy, and operationalise managed Kubernetes environments within customer data centres.
• Engineer scalable, secure, and resilient cloud-native platforms while leveraging DevSecOps best practices to automate delivery, maintenance, and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with customers, architects, developers, and support teams to deliver innovative platform solutions that enable business growth, operational excellence, and customer success.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience as OpenShift Administrator / Developer (ideally RHCSA/RHCE/OpenShift certs).
• Deep knowledge of OpenShift architecture, Operators, Image Streams, Pipelines, Service Mesh & advanced security features.
• Proven ability to automate OpenShift provisioning, upgrades, backups and day-2 operations at scale.
• Demonstrable proficiency in designing, delivering and maintaining platform solutions, including Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, SUSE Rancher, and related Kubernetes and cloud native capabilities.
• Strong technical knowledge of automation, developer onboarding practices, cloud native security best practices, and engineering platforms for scalability and robustness within Kubernetes-based environments.
• Ability to design, and implement complex platform solutions, ensuring they meet technical and business requirements.
• Mastery of automation tools and practices to streamline provisioning, configuration management, and ongoing maintenance of platform environments.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and practices, including continuous integration and deployment and infrastructure as code.
• Proficiency in GitOps methodologies for managing infrastructure as code and ensuring consistency and version control.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, for effective interaction with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and team members.
• Strong collaboration abilities to work closely with developers, architects, and support teams to design, implement, and maintain platform solutions.

Requirements

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across platform engineering processes and operations.
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardisation, and efficiency improvements.
• Deliver fully operational platform environments within established project timelines.
• Ensure successful deployment and integration of platform solutions across customer environments.
• Deliver comprehensive architecture, operational, and support documentation for all platform solutions.
• Automate at least 90% of platform provisioning and maintenance activities.
• Maintain high compliance levels across customer environments against platform health standards.
• Ensure customer platforms remain current, secure, monitored, and aligned with best practices.

Benefits

• Fully remote-first + flexible schedule.
• 15+ days vacation (increases yearly).
• Home-office equipment fully covered.
• Free Udemy + mental wellness (Ollie Health) + financial coaching.