Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

• 12-months contract with possible extension
• Perth WA
• Open to Australian citizens with the ability to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1

DFP Recruitment is seeking an experienced principal Senior Platform Engineer to join our Federal Government Client team. This role is pivotal to ensuring the effective performance, integration, and automation of cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) environments and associated analytics platforms.

Role responsibilities        

Platform Engineering

• Provision, configure, and manage EDW accounts, warehouses, roles, and storage layers using automation tools and EDW APIs.
• Design secure and scalable EDW environments across development, test, and production tiers.
• Implement and maintain EDW object lifecycle management, cost optimization strategies, and storage/compute scaling policies.

Infrastructure Automation & CI/CD

• Maintain reusable pipeline templates for consistent deployment and governance across projects.
• Automate EDW infrastructure and pipeline deployments using Terraform.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to manage schema changes, SQL transformations, and metadata management via GitOps practices.

Monitoring, Performance, and Reliability

• Establish monitoring and alerting for warehouse usage, query performance, and health metrics using Resource Monitors, native logs, third-party observability platforms.
• Analyse long-running queries and advise on optimizations.

Security, Compliance, and Governance

• Manage secrets securely and ensure encrypted access to EDW via key vaults, OAuth, or SSO integrations.
• Support data governance by aligning EDW platform configurations with enterprise compliance standards (e.g., ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR).

To be considered for this role you must:

• 5 years’ experience working with Data & Analytics Platforms.
• Proven experience with the management of SAS Grid, SAS Visual Analytics & Teradata
• Experience in integrating devops with data & analytics platforms
• Demonstrated in integration between data & analytics platforms and data applications
• Experience working in Government or providing services to Government agency preferred. Demonstrated experienced in integration design patterns, data & analytics is essential for this position
• Demonstrated experience in delivering and maintaining enterprise solutions that have a high organisation change impact. 
• Certifications in SAS technologies, Teradata, Dev/Ops and Agile

 To Apply:
   If this sounds like the role for you, please submit an updated copy of your resume in MS Word   format by hitting APPLY NOW or contact Deepika at dbhasin@dfp.com.au
 
 

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