Senior Platform Engineer

It starts with YES!
At Optus, we have an ambitious goal to be Australia’s most loved everyday brand.
We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join Optus’ newest engineering function, the Tech Foundations Tribe!
As a Platform Engineer within the Tribe, you will work within one of our autonomous squads that build, run and own technical products which our feature teams rely upon to provide innovative experiences for our external customers. You will be empowered your software or systems engineering background to ensure our products are simple to consume and scale in the face of their growing popularity with our internal customers, while helping embed practices like SRE to ensure a healthy balance between innovation and operational excellence.
Our Platform Engineers are customer driven, passionate about product-thinking, and love engineering to ensure these achievements are long-lasting. They use their experience and appetite for continuously learning to answer open questions like:
-How can we make the experience of our engineers amazing on Day 1, and equally amazing on Day 1000?
-How can we make it easy for developers to securely build and deploy APIs?
-How can we embed security through our software development lifecycle, without loading teams up with more processes and meetings?
If you are inspired to build sustainable solutions to these questions, have a passion for engineering excellence and are experienced in product development, we invite you to join our dedicated team in revolutionising engineering at Optus.
Your day in the life of a Senior Platform Engineer at Optus
-Building and operating scalable, reliable, and secure technical products that meet business requirements and maximise the productivity of our feature teams.
-Working with internal customers – developers, builder teams, and engineering leaders - to continuously improve their user experience.
-Seeing opportunities to simplify processes by adopting modern practices and technologies.
 
Your skills to pay the bills
-Experience working in Platform Engineering teams and developing technical products to solve business problems and challenges.
-Hands-on experience in software development, with a strong background in one or more programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
-A passion for building and supporting interfaces (APIs, Portals, documentation) which encourage and promote self-service.
-Expertise working with cloud and/or container platforms.
-Strong interpersonal skills to navigate complex technical environments with ease.
 
Perks we love at Optus
-Competitive salary and performance incentives
-Discounts to Optus products and services, and to over 400 retailers Australia-wide
-Training, mentoring and development opportunities (ask us about OptusU!)
-Up to five days of Volunteer Leave per year
-A “connected” day for you to use to connect to something you are passionate about
-Hybrid ways of working
-Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
-Sydney Campus; 20mins from CBD via our Optus bus. Our 999 Metro Connect service connecting you to and from Macquarie University Metro Station to Optus Campus every 6-8 minutes, morning and afternoon!
 
Keen to see what it’s really like to work at Optus? Search #OptusLife on LinkedIn to go behind the scenes!
At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, Apply
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