Platform Engineer

About the role

Westpac is continuously improving the core platforms that power its digital banking services. As a Platform Engineer you will work across organisational boundaries, providing Platform Engineering and Site Reliability expertise to support applications within the Digital tribe.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver resilient platform components and workflows.
• Define, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
• Contribute platform expertise to system design decisions and modernisation initiatives.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise cloud‑native infrastructure.
• Review and recommend new deployment techniques, tools and vendor solutions.

Required profile

• Strong Unix administration skills.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, Site Reliability and CI/CD practices.
• Interest in system automation, Infrastructure as Code and delivery excellence.
• Ability to work efficiently with engineering teams and support high‑quality applications.

Required skills

• Kubernetes & Docker (container orchestration andisation)
• Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools
• Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Helm, Terraform, Docker
• Git and GitHub with standard workflows
• Shell scripting (Bash, Python, Ruby, Java)
• Monitoring and observability tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Dynatrace)
• Security engineering practices for automated compliance
• Knowledge of microservices, API design, parallel and concurrent processing