Senior Platform Engineer

We're looking for experienced Senior Platform Engineers (Cloud) to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping and evolving our cloud platform capabilities. In this role, you'll provide technical leadership and hands-on delivery, empowering product and engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable services. You'll own the end-to-end lifecycle of platform solutions, driving innovation through self-service capabilities, governance, continuous improvement, and data-driven insights that deliver real business value.

We currently have one permanent opportunity and one fixed-term opportunity, both based in Perth CBD.

Your Role in Action 

• Contribute to the strategic direction and ongoing evolution of cloud and infrastructure platforms, translating architectural standards and business requirements into practical, scalable platform capabilities.
• Design, implement and operate platform services that enable engineering teams to build, deploy and manage applications securely, reliably and efficiently, while meeting agreed service, performance and resilience objectives.
• Develop and maintain self-service tooling, automation and Infrastructure as Code solutions that reduce operational overhead, improve consistency and accelerate delivery across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Establish strong working relationships with engineering, product, security, finance and vendor stakeholders to drive adoption of platform standards, improve platform usability and align technology outcomes with business priorities.
• Monitor platform health, utilisation, performance and costs, providing meaningful operational and financial insights that support informed decision-making and continuous optimisation.
• Lead the response to platform incidents and operational issues, conducting root cause analysis, implementing durable remediation measures and embedding lessons learned to improve service reliability.
• Maintain the security, governance and compliance posture of platform services, ensuring infrastructure assets remain appropriately managed, patched, auditable and aligned with enterprise requirements.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools and engineering practices, identifying opportunities to improve platform capability, reduce technical debt, strengthen resilience and enhance the overall developer experience.

What Makes You a Great Fit 

• Demonstrated experience in a large and complex technology environment, delivering cloud, infrastructure and/or application platform services that meet operational and service performance expectations.
• Strong understanding of modern platform engineering principles, service lifecycle management and the delivery of scalable, reliable and secure technology services.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive outcomes across diverse technical and business groups, building trusted relationships and fostering collaboration at all levels of the organisation.
• A customer-focused mindset, with the ability to balance user needs, commercial considerations and strategic objectives when delivering technology solutions.
• Broad knowledge of contemporary technology trends and emerging capabilities, with the ability to translate these into practical outcomes and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Experience working with cloud technologies and services will be highly regarded.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including: 

• Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.  
• Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements. 
• The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year. 
• Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership. 
• An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme. 
• An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.  
• In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.

• 22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 27 August 2026

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We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities. As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.