Great opportunity for a skilled Platform Engineer to support a Queensland Government digital environment, working across a modern microservices and event-driven platform hosted in the cloud. This role focuses on lifecycle patching, automation, reliability and enabling fast, scalable digital delivery.
  
This is an initial contract to 30 June 2026 + view of 2 x 12month extension options.
  
Responsibilities:  

• Build and maintain deep technical knowledge of platform systems, services and their business usage.
• Develop high-quality, DevOps-friendly platform components with scalability, fault tolerance and security baked in.
• Drive automation initiatives to improve efficiency across the platform.
• Manage and resolve a range of support issues, prioritising workloads and meeting expected timeframes.
• Contribute to technical standards, documentation and knowledge assets.
• Champion cloud best practices and provide hands-on support to uplift capability across the team.
• Collaborate with QA specialists to ensure appropriate unit, integration and functional testing.
• Identify, document and manage risks, issues and complex changes in line with ITIL processes.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support governance and security standards.
• Create and maintain reference materials such as network diagrams, work instructions and training resources.
• Support lifecycle patching activities across tools such as EKS, Trivy, Fluent Bit, kube-bench, Metric Server and NGINX Ingress.

Ideally you will have the following:

• Hands-on experience with at least one of: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka or AWS.
• Strong understanding of lifecycle patching for microservices platforms.
• Solid knowledge of cloud security best practices.
• High-quality documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work both independently and within a collaborative team.
• AWS Associate or Professional certifications highly regarded.
• Experience across both public and private sector environments is desirable.

  
This role will be offered as an initial 12 month contract with long term extension options.
  
To apply please send your resume or contact Nat at BLACKROC on 0430 292 875 or natalie@blackroc.co

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