Senior Platform Engineer

A LITTLE ABOUT US
Shippit is Australia's best connected shipping software. Logistics infrastructure is a sophisticated beast, and we're not only improving the experience for everyone involved, we're impacting the planet in a positive manner: deliveries made through our platform are already 100% Carbon Neutral. Proudly Australian founded, we're truly global in our approach and have the benefit of being a free moving startup with the security of impacting a growing industry that needs some love and attention.

THE ROLE & THE TEAM 

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will set direction and provide technical leadership across Shippit’s AWS cloud platform. You’ll work with experienced software engineers, data engineers and product teams to simplify and scale our technology, driving cross-team adoption and accelerating product delivery.

This role is not just about infrastructure. You’ll shape the future of Shippit’s platform and infrastructure. Improve reliability, performance, security and developer experience while ensuring our investments deliver business value.

DAY TO DAY (ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Build and operate our internal platform as a service. Work with product and engineering teams to ensure their platform and infrastructure requirements are met to deliver great customer outcomes.
• Drive adoption and simplification of our technology choices, ensuring that the technology investments we choose deliver value.
• Design and implement infrastructure as code solutions that build and scale our AWS platform.
• Contribute to ADRs and RFCs for our cloud platform and work as a roaming solutions architect for teams building solutions upon it.
• Embody best practices, continuous improvement, technical excellence and bias for action.
• Lend expertise for production support, root cause analysis and post-mortem.
  

WHAT YOU NEED TO HAVE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE

• Experience in ownership of core AWS services (VPC, EC2, IAM) in production.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience delivering a containerised platform in production on a public cloud.
• Working knowledge of GitOps tooling such as Argo CD or Flux CD, with the ability to implement and own a declarative deployment workflow.
• Proven experience managing a multi-account AWS environment.
• Demonstrable experience delivering cloud-native architecture to achieve measured balance in availability, reliability, security and cost efficiency.
• Familiarity with observability stacks like ELK and LGTM. OpenTelemetry experience is a bonus.
• Comfort working in a polyglot programming environment, aided by LLM assisted tools. Experience working with Node.js, Golang or Ruby is a must.
• Experience working in platform engineering in a highly regulated industry, such as banking and finance, medical & health or similar regulated industry would be highly desirable.
• Prior experience in an application or software development role would be highly desirable.

FEEL VALUABLE

Join our high-performance culture at Shippit where you can make a difference. We’re on a mission that needs the right #goodhumans to help make ship happen!

Shippit actively supports a diverse workforce at all levels of the company and we all embody the core values that make our business unique. We foster a culture of inclusion at Shippit and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. Our mantra is to make ship happen, every single day.

We’re a phenomenal place to work, and we can back that up. Shippit’s been ranked as #6 Best Place to Work by AFR in 2023. It doesn’t stop there, we have a whole bunch of accolades we earnt over the years which we are super proud of.

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OUR HIRING PROCESS

1. Phone screening - nice and simple to start, let's get to know each other.
2. Hiring Manager Interview - impress your potential new Manager.
3. Take Home Test
4. Technical/Functional Interview - let your skills do the talking.
5. Values Interview - have you got what it takes to be a Shippster?

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