Platform Engineer (Sydney Or Remote)

About Prvidr 

Prvidr Pty Ltd is a business that was established with the express purpose of supporting modern, innovative business models using technology and know-how that builds capability and creates opportunity for our clients. 

We service the banking and finance, telecommunications, media and cloud computing segments with business management platform-as-a-service capabilities across all functional domains from buy, through to order management, payments, and lifecycle management of the customer. The Prvidr Business Management Platform-as-a-Service offering is a genuine end-to-end enablement capability. Our mission is to help our clients build and develop innovative, sustainable, profitable businesses.   

We are looking for a talented, self-motivated Platform Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. As a key member of the engineering team, you will help build, evolve and scale our cloud infrastructure to drive developer productivity and speed of innovation, and to provide maximum agility and responsiveness to our customers. We operate a hybrid private/public any-cloud infrastructure, and we strive to make use of the most modern cloud orchestration tools and technologies available. Our next generation platform is a LowCode/NoCode ecosystem consisting of applications (SaaS) built on Golang, NodeJS, React, Rust and more. This is your opportunity to make a big impact at a high-growth company with an expanding client list. 

About the role

This is a Permanent Full-Time (37.5 hours per week) position. Available work locations include Sydney, Brisbane, Townsville and we offer remote working opportunities. 

We’re looking for someone who is: 

• A positive and adaptable problem solver 
• Comfortable navigating important architectural and technical decisions 
• Able to communicate effectively with a technical and non-technical audience 
• Aware of the challenges of building a secure, distributed, and scalable platform 
• Excited about contributing unique insights and experience to the success of the team 

Examples of things you’ll work on: 

• Lay the foundations and future direction of a new and exciting product 
• Work with all major cloud providers to deliver a truly global offering 
• Collaborate to build automation workflows and deployment strategies 
• Continuous delivery of new features and platform improvements 
• Help design a resilient and scalable service mesh architecture 
• Be involved in the full product design lifecycle. 
• Assist in defining DevOps and quality guidelines and standards. 
• Contribute to and review deployment plans; schedules the installation of new modules, upgrades, and fixes to the production environment. 
• Work with Release Management to ensure modules are production ready.  
• Create release notes, deployment plans, etc.  
• Verify the functionality of components and services and ensures deployment meets expectations. 
• Plan ongoing routine application maintenance tasks. 
• Establish requirements, methods, and procedures for routine maintenance. 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

• Experience holding Platform Engineer role(s) with a passionate Love of automation in large application delivery environments - infrastructure build, testing, development processes. 
• Demonstrable knowledge of AWS, Ansible, Git, Jenkins, and Hashicorp Stack (Terraform a must), Docker, Kubernetes 
• Expertise building resilient, secure, and highly available infrastructure in a Private/Public AnyCloud architecture combining the use of Nutanix Hyperconverged infrastructure with AWS, Azure and GCP clustering. 
• A pragmatic mindset and an aptitude for solving the right problem 
• Experience in supporting a production service in a DevOps friendly and continuous improvement environment. 
• Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools. 
• Strong scripting (e.g. PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby, C#, Java) and comfortable with adapting to our next generation languages Golang, NodeJS, React, Rust, etc. 
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent. 
• Linux (Ubuntu/Centos) system administration. 
• Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Nagios, Pandora, Zabbix, OpManager). 
• Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues. 
• Strong experience with SQL, particularly PostgreSQL and/or MariaDB/MySQL including proactive Query and Index optimisation as a routine. 

Before applying:

• Please note that you must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to be eligible for this role.
• A National Police Check will be required for successful applicants

At Prvidr all employees are encouraged to be themselves and bring their whole selves to work daily. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people living with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse people and people of the LGBTI+ community, including transgender, gender diverse, and intersex people.

Prvidr is committed to maintaining a diverse workforce, so it welcomes the opportunity for applicants to share their lived experiences but recognises that some applicants may not wish to disclose, which we respect.