Principal Platform Engineer

Principal Platform Engineer at Suncorp Group

Lead cloud platform engineering with a strategic mindset, supporting flexible hybrid working and career development. Provide technical leadership to a number of programs in the pipeline, shaping the future of scalable cloud platforms while mentoring others and growing your career in a dynamic, inclusive environment.

As a Principal Platform Engineer, you’ll lead the design and delivery of resilient, scalable cloud platforms. You’ll coach and mentor engineers, drive automation, and contribute to long-term strategic outcomes across our data and technology landscape.

What You’ll Do

• Engineer future-proof cloud platforms that support scalability, resiliency, and performance across enterprise systems
• Lead platform implementations from inception to production, ensuring quality documentation and sustainable support processes across teams
• Identify and deliver automation opportunities to optimise cost, availability, and performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform solutions with strategic architectural vision
• Provide coaching, mentoring, and technical leadership to grow engineering capability across the team and other business functions
• Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and adaptability
• Ensure platform meets enterprise security, governance and compliance standards

What You’ll Bring

• Deep hands-on experience with AWS/Azure and Terraform (Terraform Cloud preferred), with strong skills in OpenShift; Azure experience is a plus.
• Skilled in Python and/or Go scripting and automation frameworks like Ansible or Puppet
• Proven ability to mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical growth and team capability
• Strong understanding of observability tools (Dynatrace, Splunk, Grafana) and cloud governance
• Experience in deployment management and access control, implementing IAM roles, deployment permissions, and cloud best practices to ensure secure and reliable platform operations
• Experience in Agile and Lean delivery, with a focus on collaboration and stakeholder engagement
• Comfortable navigating complex environments and translating strategic goals into actionable engineering outcomes
• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and secrets management (Hashicorp Vault preferred)

What You’ll Enjoy

• Access our award-winning Shine platform – your central hub for exclusive perks, wellbeing support, career development, and recognition.
• Hybrid working, flexible leave, 20 weeks paid parental leave, and up to 5 days paid flexible leave annually
• Paid study support, career breaks, on-the-job learning, and a $1,000 referral bonus
• Free wellbeing coaching, a dedicated Employee Council, and confidential EAP access
• Discounts at 400+ retailers, insurance savings, gym memberships, and reduced super fees
• Paid volunteer leave, donation matching, and unlimited emergency response leave
• Performance-based bonuses and Suncorp shares for eligible employees
• Diversity is celebrated through employee resource groups and inclusive policies for all families

At Suncorp we believe we are our best when our workforce is as diverse, talented and passionate as the communities in which we live and operate, and where our people feel included, valued and connected. We are passionate about inspiring our people by creating a diverse, accessible, and inclusive culture, offering flexible work, career development and internal mobility, and building connected relationships amongst our team members and with our customers.

Key skills/competency

• Cloud Platform Engineering
• AWS
• Azure
• Terraform
• OpenShift
• Python
• Go
• Automation
• Technical Leadership
• Mentoring