Senior Platform Engineer

About Megaport

Megaport has transformed the way IT gets connected. We're global leaders in Network as a Service (NaaS) changing the way businesses reach the cloud. We're also a leading partner to Amazon Microsoft Google IBM Oracle NYSE and many other leading technology companies. Megaport is a publicly traded company on the Australian Stock Exchange. We’re a lean high-achieving team made up of over 300 members globally. While the company is headquartered in Brisbane Australia employees are spread out across North America Europe and Asia-Pacific. Staff enjoy an environment that is collaborative supportive and fun.

Our Team Culture

Join a team of globally-positioned industry experts that lead by example. We do not compromise our values for commercial gain; we are all custodians of our culture and the customer is at the centre of everything we do. Our employees are motivated adaptable persistent hard-working and dynamic. Our culture permeates everything we do and this in turn with a global vision forms a commitment to each other our customers and shareholders alike.

The Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer you are a champion for DevOps culture and industry best practice within Megaport. You will work alongside talented team members ensuring that systems are secure maintainable and available. External to the team you will be engaging with stakeholders in requirements analysis and demonstrations. Technically you will be very hands on. Continually evolving your skills through a mix of peer reviews and research. Ultimately your obsession is customer success and ensuring company goals are met.

What You Will Be Doing

• Driving initiatives within the Platform Engineering sphere.

• Championing high standards of work and industry best practices.

• Communicating with teams and stakeholders at all stages.

• Bringing fresh ideas to the table and encouraging others.

• Diving into complex technical problems with a can-do attitude.

• Working across numerous technologies in a fast changing industry.

• Increasing Developers productivity through enhanced tooling.

• Writing code handling alerts improving solutions and supporting others.

• Playing a crucial role in the success of your company and team.

What We Are Looking For

• 3+ years infrastructure and systems administration experience.

• Ability to design robust solutions to technical challenges.

• A focus on automation and 'infrastructure as code'.

• An agile mindset with the ability to work in a collaborative manner.

• Strong skills with AWS Docker Kubernetes and Serverless.

• Software development Python or Go preferred or similar.

• Configuration management tools like Terraform or Ansible.

• CI platforms & Revision control systems.

• A history of continual professional development.

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What We Offer

·       Competitive Compensation Packages

·       Flexible working environments

·       Birthday Leave

·       Generous study and training program + 5 days paid study leave

·       Additional Leave via Purchased Annual Leave Scheme

·       Health and Wellness Program

If you have any questions please reach out to Megaport's Talent Acquisition Team at [email protected]

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