Staff Platform Engineer

What you’ll be doing

The role will see you join a group of talented platform engineers, where you’ll use your previous experience to uplift our platform products and services. This means having worked across design, build and testing phases of cloud architectures and solutions. You will play a key role engaging our consumers and stakeholders to help them take full advantage of the Catch platform

 Key duties and deliverables:

• Guide development teams in building resilient, performant, and cost-efficient systems
• Work alongside our architecture function to establish and promote modern cloud solutions.
• Play a key role in settings standards and engineering best practices across the business.
• Drive adoption of Platform products and services
• Advocate for all things Cloud and drive community engagement within the business.
• Mentor more junior platform engineers.
• Work with key stakeholders in planning and estimation processes.
• Contribute to team planning, present work completed at showcases and provide continuous feedback to your team and peers

 Reports to:                                                                                       

Principal Platform Engineer    

What you will need to be successful

• Experience designing and building distributed systems using event-driven architecture and/or API's
• You're a Kubernetes expert and ideally have experience implementing a multi-cluster, multi-region deployment strategy. 
• Experience building cloud native systems (AWS preferred) 
• Experience implementing security controls in a cloud-based environment.
• Excellent communication skills. You should be comfortable engaging with developers, architects, product owners and be able to articulate the benefits of Platform engineering to our stakeholders. 
• Experience with at least one observability product (eg. Datadog, Newrelic) and a solid understanding of distributed tracing
• Experience implementing performance commitments for products and experiences (eg SLA/SLO/SLIs)
• Familiar with different disaster recovery strategies, load balancing & circuit breaking techniques.
• Proficiency in PHP or Golang (nice to have)

 Why Catch? 

• Working in a community of industry-leading innovators with a diverse and deep set of skills and experience, you will learn, collaborate, and co-create to achieve great things.  
• You’ll have ownership of your role, which will allow you to find the right balance between stretch and sustainability, work, and life.  
• Culture of comradery and collaboration - OneTeam 
• Plus, all the tools and learning you need, the tone is set for you to shine and succeed.    
• We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create a team where everyone feels like they belong. We support diversity, inclusion and we are a gender-neutral organisation. We celebrate individuals at their core, so they shine to their best. 

Team Benefits – just to name a few! 

To support you at work, what you value in life and in the community, our team member benefits include: 

• Access to the latest technologies 
• An annual budget for your learning and development (this includes learning of your choice, certifications and more) 
• Extended parental leave (16 weeks for primary carers), and paid volunteer days  
• Flexible working – we balance working together with working flexibly 
• People-focussed culture that celebrates achievements big and small  
• Oh, and did I mention paid subscriptions and discount cards. 

Next steps 

If this sounds like your next career move, then click on the ‘Apply’ button now. Please note that we may commence interviewing candidates prior to the application closing date.