Senior Platform Engineer
MegaportPosted 3/5/2025
Senior Platform Engineer
Megaport
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Job Summary
Megaport is a global leader in Network as a Service (NaaS), connecting businesses to the cloud with its lean and high-achieving team. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will champion DevOps culture and industry best practices, ensuring systems are secure, maintainable, and available. You will work alongside talented team members, engage with stakeholders, and drive initiatives within the Platform Engineering sphere. With 3+ years of Linux systems administration experience, you will design robust solutions to technical challenges, automate infrastructure, and improve developers' productivity. Megaport offers a collaborative environment, flexible remote work options, and opportunities for professional development. Join a team that values customer success and company goals.
Job Description
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 Senior Platform Engineer/ Site Reliability Engineer, you are a champion for DevOps culture and industry best practice within Megaport. You will work alongside talented team members in multiple timezones 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 Linux systems administration and infrastructure experience.
- Ability to design robust solutions to technical challenges.
- A focus on automation and "infrastructure as code", including automated testing of infrastructure code.
- An agile mindset with the ability to work in a collaborative manner.
- Strong skills with AWS, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Software development - Bash, plus either Python or Go preferred or similar.
- Configuration management tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- CI platforms & Revision control systems, Github or Gitlab preferred
- An understanding of observability (MELT) tools in our industry
- A history of continual professional development.
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