The Opportunity At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.
We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Cloud Platform Engineer based in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane on a full-time permanent basis.
The AWS Cloud Platform Engineer is a hands-on role focused on building, maintaining, uplifting and securing APA's cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance.
Working at the direction of the Platform Owner, this role involves automating infrastructure provisioning and management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, providing technical support to users and creating reusable architecture patterns to accelerate and standardise platform adoption and usage.
This position is crucial for maintaining the robustness and security of APA's cloud infrastructure, ensuring it meets the organisation's needs and industry standards.
Is critical for creating a seamless customer experience, enabling workload teams to onboard efficiently and use the platform's capabilities productively.
A focus on modern DevOps practices and AWS best practices will be essential for success.
Key Responsibilities Platform Development & Uplift: Design, implement, and maintain AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, IAM); build reusable IaC templates; ensure platform scalability and performance.
Cloud Security : Apply and enhance cloud security controls; monitor and respond to incidents.
Customer Enablement: Support solution teams with onboarding, training, and well-architected designs; publish reusable architecture patterns.
Technical Support : Provide expert support for AWS services and resolve issues.
Governance & Collaboration: Ensure compliance with standards; collaborate with teams to maintain reliable and efficient cloud environments.
Your Experience Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, EKS) and IaC tools (e.g.
Terraform, CloudFormation).
Knowledge of DevSecOps/CI-CD tools (e.g., GitLab, Hashicorp Vault, Prisma CNAPP).
Experience designing landing zones, governance frameworks, and high-availability architectures.
Extensive experience in IT, with AWS Cloud Engineer in large-scale environments.
Proven track record in operational cloud management, observability, and agile processes.
Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills, able to explain technical concepts clearly.
About the Team Technology drives everything we do at APA, from connecting millions of Australians to energy sources to achieving our net zero ambitions.
Our technology teams are focused on delivering innovative solutions that position APA as a world leader in energy infrastructure.
We're looking for people who are ready to make an impact—those who are courageous, nimble, and willing to take risks.
Working at APA At APA we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.
We'll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs.
We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.
We employ more than 2700 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.
We are APA APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.
We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.
And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry across every corner of Australia.
As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.
Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.
We are committed to delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers.
We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive – now and in the future.
Join our team and be part of Australia's energy transition!
We'd love to hear from you.
APA is an equal opportunity employer.
The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priorty.
We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.
Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.
Role closes Saturday, 30 November 2024.
Role Reference Number JR1406 We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.