Platform & Automation Engineer

This is an exciting opportunity to join Hyundai Capital Australia (HCAU) during a period of significant growth! HCAU is the Australian finance provider for Hyundai, Kia and Genesis, delivering innovative finance solutions that support the Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) brands. HMG is Korea's 2nd largest conglomerate focusing on automobiles, auto parts, finance and more.

To support the growth and scalability of our IT infrastructure, we’re currently hiring a hands-on Platform & Automation Engineer to design, operate and continuously improve our platform and automation services. In this role, you’ll reduce manual effort and operational risk, strengthen platform resilience, and build secure, reusable automation across cloud and enterprise environments. This role suits an engineer who works across cloud platforms and automation, troubleshoots production services, partners with vendors, and owns solutions from design through to operational support.

What you’ll do:

• Support and improve cloud and enterprise platform services, with a strong focus on AWS environments and core infrastructure services.
• Build and maintain repeatable platform services using infrastructure-as-code, configuration management and standard engineering patterns.
• Improve platform reliability, availability, security, observability and cost efficiency, including incident response and root cause analysis.
• Design, build and maintain automation for infrastructure, operational processes and workflows using Python, PowerShell, AWS automation services and workflow automation platforms.
• Apply secure engineering practices and ensure changes align with IT governance, change management, risk, audit and security requirements.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure, security, data, vendor and business teams to deliver practical end-to-end solutions.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and architecture patterns.

Your skills & experience:

• Hands-on experience in platform, cloud, DevOps, automation or systems engineering in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and a practical understanding of networking, identity, compute, storage and security concepts.
• Strong scripting or development capability, preferably Python and/or PowerShell.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Experience with CI/CD, source control and structured deployment practices.
• Ability to diagnose complex production issues across infrastructure, cloud platforms and automated workflows.
• Strong documentation and communication skills with a service-oriented engineering mindset.
• Desirable: experience with Microsoft 365, Power Platform or workflow/RPA automation, observability and log-management tooling, and financial services or another regulated environment.
• Desirable: working knowledge of ITIL, change management, disaster recovery and operational resilience practices.

What we offer you:

• A flexible hybrid working environment.
• WELL Core Platinum certified office.
• Competitive base salary & bonus structure.
• Health & Wellbeing allowance.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program.
• 14 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carers.
• A fun and collaborative team with great work life balance.
• Employee Car Benefit Scheme.

HCAU is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We support an inclusive environment for all employees and employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. If reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in our interview process please contact: recruitment@au.hcs.com