Senior Consultant, Cloud & DevOps (Melbourne or Sydney)

Practiv is a cloud native, Data Cloud & AI consultancy. Our core business is moving large organisations' services to the cloud, and delivering UX-led applications with our powerful in-house CI/CD tooling. We build software for customers and supply internal development and infrastructure teams using the experience we've baked into our products. We believe developers should be able to push high quality software to production on a daily basis, even in heavily regulated organisations. Our pipelines assure delivery quality and timelines. We manage public and private cloud infrastructure, from on-premise to GCP, AWS, and Azure. We assure project delivery by using tried and true software delivery and managed infrastructure patterns. We’ve implemented the same patterns across diverse customers and industries, which helps us tune them. With our spreading reputation of quality, delivery focused, quality engineers and products, naturally, our business is expanding. We are looking for an energetic, Senior Cloud Engineer to join our team in developing world-class solutions to AU and the US. Requirements What you can bring us You'll come from a System Administration background with 5 + years experience with GCP or AWS (and maybe clouds). You will have experience monitoring and maintaining a platform to adhere to industry leading standards. You will be comfortable taking ownership and strive to deliver improvements and you will know when to stand up for platform stability over feature delivery. Your level of experience brings with it confidence to make technical decisions for our teams and customers, we see you as personable and presentable, able to communicate well in a team and take ownership of your outcomes. We like motivated leaders, self-starters. We are extremely delivery focused for our customers, and their business outcomes are central to our prioritisation and decision making. Your experience and judgment joins ours to make design choices that balance flexibility with delivery. This includes ability to size and estimate your own work and to ask the right questions of the right people. Our customers look to us for technical leadership. To us senior means you have a range of experience and the scars to show for it, which provide you the ability to deliver great software efficiently, and work with other seniors in our customers' teams effectively. You will be an analytical person and will be naturally curious to understand the platform. You will be able to maintain calmness when dealing with high pressure incidents (certainly not a regular occurrence for us). Ideally you will have strong and proven production quality experience with: Terraform (amazon 5 years) GCP or AWS (5 years) Kubernetes (3 years) Bash Scripting (5+ years) Jenkins (3 years) Maven or equivalent tool (1 year) capacity planning and performance testing. (3 years) Also having experience with monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog or New Relic is desired. You'll have experience working in a customer facing environment doing some of the following: breaking down monoliths into microservices greenfields projects moving companies to the cloud following best practice design. Benefits The sky is the limit when working at Practiv. Our people are talented and driven and we help them achieve their career goals. We care about your experience, and your future. We reflect this with a market leading salary, benefits, and we will support your development goals as a team with a lot of expertise and energy. As expected in 2025, flexible working to suit your lifestyle is encouraged. You'll work on top tier projects. We're leading some of AU's biggest corporates in moving core business services to the cloud, bringing exciting complexity to challenge you, with lots of development opportunities as a result. Modern technology and patterns. We're micro service and cloud-native with mature devops. Our management team are technical. We've been focused on best practice for 20 years and you'll feel those benefits. Our Build and Run patterns mean we often push software to production multiple times per day even for large corporates so you'll be in an environment that promotes such outcomes.