Remote Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join our Product team at UpGuard as a Platform Engineer to drive improvements, automation, and refining processes to enhance reliability in our development platform and infrastructure. As our first dedicated hire in this space, you will have the opportunity to drive the direction of our development platform and infrastructure.

Requirements

• Strong experience in IaC (preferably Terraform) on a cloud platform
• A software engineering background
• Understanding of security best practices in cloud infrastructure
• Demonstrated ability to drive culture and best practices within cross-functional teams
• Experience with containerization, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on experience with optimizing cost efficiency in cloud environments

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable production infrastructure on Google Cloud
• Collaborate with developers to optimize development workflows and drive best practices
• Lead infrastructure automation and maintain a security-first approach to cloud architecture
• Ensure robust observability through monitoring, logging, and alerting systems and workflows

Benefits

• Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical and mental wellbeing (all regions)
• WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set-up within your first 3 months at UpGuard (all regions)
• $1500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance (all regions)
• Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all regions)
• 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role (all regions)
• Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave (all regions)
• Fully remote working environment: whilst we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance (all regions)
• Top spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their role (all regions)
• Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform (all regions)
• Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work (all regions)