Staff Cloud Engineer

Altana is the network for trusted trade. Our AI-powered product network empowers governments and businesses to build a more resilient and secure global economy while keeping trade flowing.

The Opportunity at Altana

The Cloud Engineering team is looking for experienced DevOps and Cloud Engineers to help build out our vision. You’ll work closely with our Developers, Data Scientists, and Customers on projects to analyze and observe world-scale datasets, build systems that can scale to produce never-before-seen insights, and construct infrastructure and applications that help deliver our product vision.

Your Responsibilities

• Build and maintain internal developer platforms using infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi) to enable self-service provisioning across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure)

• Design and implement automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, application deployments, and operational tasks using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or similar tools

• Develop and maintain Kubernetes platforms including writing Helm charts, managing cluster operations, implementing pod security policies, and optimizing resource utilization

• Create platform abstractions and tooling that enable development teams to deploy and operate services independently while maintaining security and compliance standards

• Implement comprehensive observability solutions across the platform stack including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting using modern tools (Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog, etc.)

• Build and maintain secure container images and deployment pipelines with automated security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance checks

• Support deployments in highly regulated customer environments including air-gapped and compliance-heavy infrastructures

• Automate operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system reliability through scripting, tooling development, and process improvement

• Evaluate and integrate new technologies that improve developer productivity, system reliability, or operational efficiency

• Collaborate with engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities and automation

• Mentor team members on cloud best practices, platform patterns, and automation techniques

About You

• An active Australian Security NV1 clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain an Australian Security clearance

• 5-8 years of experience building developer platforms, infrastructure automation, or cloud infrastructure

• Self-directed and independent, with strong time management and ability to balance multiple priorities

• Production experience building and operating environments in Azure and/or AWS

• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools

• Hands-on Kubernetes experience including cluster management, application deployments, and operational maintenance

• Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, or similar languages for automation and tooling

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent experience

• Track record of delivering platform capabilities that improved team productivity or system reliability

• Care deeply about developer experience, automation, security, and operational excellence

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable working with technical teams to understand requirements and design solutions

Nice to have, but not required

• Experience at a startup or high-growth technology company

• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)

• Familiarity with securing information systems and compliance frameworks (IRAP, FedRAMP, etc.)

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)

• Background in SRE or platform engineering roles

Technologies we love

• Languages: Python, Go, Javascript

• Tooling: Docker, Git, Kubernetes, Swagger/OpenAPI, AWS, Azure, Terraform

• Data Tech: Databricks, OpenSearch, Quicksight, Postgres, Spark

This role is based remotely in Australia, but will require occasional travel to our Canberra office. You can expect to be onsite once per quarter. You are expected to be available to hand off responsibilities to our UK team during UK hours and receive a handoff from our US team during US hours.

Note: The employment contract for this role will run through Deel as we build out our Australia presence.

Why it’s great to work at Altana

• We love to collaborate, and we win as a team!

• We are committed to engineering excellence

• We value personal and professional development

• We learn from diverse backgrounds and perspectives

• We impact the world, from enabling developing countries to identifying drug traffickers

At Altana, we believe that a diverse workforce enables greater creativity, performance, and adaptability. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome you to join us as you are. Our employment opportunities and decisions are based on business needs and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, family care or medical leave status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by the laws or regulations in the areas in which we operate. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type, in any situation.

Offers related to employment at Altana will come from an Altana.ai email address. We will never ask for payment as part of the interview or onboarding process.