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Platform Engineering Manager
Learnosity. Provide people and delivery leadership for Learnosity's Platform team .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates strong leadership in managing distributed engineering teams, with a focus on performance development, stakeholder communication, and strategic roadmap execution. Proficient in platform engineering, AWS technologies, and infrastructure management, ensuring high-quality delivery and operational excellence.
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Platform Engineering LeadershipAWS (EC2, ECS, RDS)Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform)Strong Communication SkillsDelivery Backlog Ownership
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Hard Skills
Platform EngineeringAWSPythonInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDContainerization (Docker, ECS)Observability Tools (Datadog, CloudWatch)Performance ManagementTechnical Decision MakingRoadmap Prioritization
Soft Skills
Collaborative LeadershipCoachingStakeholder ManagementConsultative ApproachTeam Engagement
Tools & Technologies
CloudFormationTerraformGitHub ActionsJenkinsDockerECSDatadogCloudWatch
Industry Keywords
Distributed TeamsTechnical MaintenancePerformance DevelopmentCapacity ManagementWorkload Management
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSDockerEC2JenkinsPythonTerraform
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide people and delivery leadership for Learnosity's Platform team
- Lead Platform engineers through 1:1s, performance and career development, team health and engagement, capacity and workload, hiring and onboarding, and performance or behavioural issue resolution
- Own the Platform backlog as product owner, ensuring prioritisation, scoping, visibility and delivery against agreed outcomes
- Manage dependencies and trade-offs across projects, operational work and technical maintenance
- Translate the SVP of Technology's strategy into a prioritised platform roadmap
- Make final platform technology decisions and break ties under delegated authority
- Partner with CloudOps on monitoring, alerting, recovery, support expectations, access, runbooks and handover criteria
- Represent the Platform team with Engineering, Product and other stakeholders
- Communicate priorities, progress, risks, dependencies and escalations
- Ensure consistent engineering standards and effective quality delivery practices across a distributed team
Requirements
What you’ll need- 7–10 years of engineering experience, including 2–3 years leading or managing engineers
- Experience leading distributed teams across multiple locations and time zones
- Ownership of a delivery backlog and roadmap: prioritisation, scoping, and translating strategy into a plan
- Decisive technical judgement and ability to resolve competing technical opinions and make final decisions
- Collaborative, consultative leadership style, with ability to coach, grow and manage engineer performance
- Strong communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong platform or infrastructure engineering background
- Deep, hands-on AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, networking)
- Containerised environments (Docker / ECS)
- Observability (Datadog, CloudWatch)
- Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD (CloudFormation, Troposphere or Terraform; GitHub Actions or Jenkins)
- Strong Python for automation and platform tooling
- Must have the right to live and work in Australia
Benefits
Comp & perks- Annual Leave
- Milestone Leave
- Paid sick leave
- Generous parental leave
- Health & dental insurance
- Pension contributions
- Learning & development support
- Employee Assistance Program
- Flexible work practices
- Commuter benefits
- Modern office