Platform Engineer

Location: Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, Australia

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job

The Platform Engineer designs, builds, and maintains the Simpro platform infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance. Operating with a 70% development and 30% platform focus, this role requires a strong software engineering background to build the tools and abstractions that power our systems. The Platform Engineer will automate testing, deployment, and configuration management processes; select appropriate hardware and software components; configure networking and storage resources; and create security policies.

What You’ll Do

At Simpro, we build the software that powers the trades and field service industry across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and the UK. Our platform team sits at the heart of that owning the cloud infrastructure, the internal developer platform, and the pipelines that get code from development into production safely and fast.

We're looking for a Platform Engineer who's genuinely comfortable on both sides of the fence: someone who understands how applications work and knows AWS inside out. If you've come from a development background and gravitated toward the infrastructure side of things, this role was probably written for you.

You'll join a team of six based in Brisbane, working directly with development teams across the business to architect, maintain, and improve our AWS cloud environment. That means owning infrastructure-as-code in Terraform, contributing to our Internal Developer Platform (already ~70% built and growing), and helping developers ship services to production quickly and safely. You'll also be part of an on-call rotation so when things go sideways, you'll be the person who knows how to fix it.

What You’ll Bring

• Deep, working knowledge of AWS - Lambda, EC2, EKS, RDS, SQS, IAM, SSM, and the broader ecosystem. Not just the concepts, but knowing what breaks and how to fix it.

• Kubernetes - cluster management, scaling groups, ports, and production-level troubleshooting

• Terraform - we run everything through it, so this is non-negotiable

• CI/CD pipeline experience - we use Jenkins, but if you know GitHub Actions or Buildkite, you'll pick it up

• PostgreSQL / SQL database fundamentals

• A development background, or strong experience working closely with engineering teams on application architecture

• Clear communication - you'll be translating between infra and dev teams regularly, and writing RCAs during incident 

What would set you apart

• AWS Solutions Architect certification

• Experience with cloud security practices -  IAM policies, secrets management, security group design, and compliance controls 

• Experience with HashiCorp tooling beyond Terraform

• Exposure to Internal Developer Platform concepts

• Comfort using AI coding tools (Claude Code is part of our workflow)  with the judgement to know when not to trust them

The environment

This team moves fast. There are real incidents, real pressure, and a genuine on-call commitment. The flip side is a team culture that's relaxed, collaborative, and not at all corporate. New starters are expected to be in office full-time.

What We Can Offer You

• Novated leasing via salary packaging

• Employee Assistance Program (24/7 confidential support on relationships, bereavement, finances)

• Generous Parental Leave Program

• Paid Volunteer Leave Days

• Public Holiday Exchange Scheme

• Talent Referral Program – get rewarded for referring a friend to join our team!

• Casual dress and relaxed office environment

• Fun team camaraderie and events

• Opportunities for career progression and development

• Diverse training & internal networking opportunities across all of our product lines

• Service recognition awards

• Click here to find out more about working at Simpro Group!

Our Core Values

While experience in the above areas will be highly considered, it’s important to note it will be secondary to the person with the right determination, attitude and compatibility. Our culture and core values are very important to us:

We Are One Team

We Are Customer Centric
We Are Growth Minded
We Are Accountable
We Celebrate Success

Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange & ClockShark are equal opportunity employers with a best-of-class onboarding program and supportive team environments. We embrace and support culture diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity. Aboriginals, Torres Strait Islanders and minority groups are encouraged to apply. .

Visit simprogroup.com/au/company/careers to learn more about us and our values.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all candidates for their application.

*Please note, no agencies will be accepted in the recruitment of this role.