Company Description
Basiq, part of the Cuscal Group, is on a mission to Make Finance Easy by providing Australia’s leading Open Finance API platform. We help fintechs, banks, and innovative businesses deliver smarter, data-driven financial experiences to millions of users.
Backed by the strength and scale of the Cuscal Group, Basiq combines the agility of a fintech with the stability, security, and reliability of an established financial services leader.
Join us as a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer and help build the cloud-native, automated infrastructure that powers the future of Open Finance.
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, automate, and operate the cloud and Kubernetes platforms that power Basiq’s Open Finance API ecosystem.
Your work will directly support mission-critical systems, improve developer productivity, and ensure our platform remains secure, scalable, and highly reliable.
You’ll make an impact by:
- Designing and improving AWS-managed infrastructure using Terraform and automation best practices.
- Supporting and growing our Kubernetes platforms as we scale their adoption.
- Building and enhancing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).
- Developing automation and internal tooling in Bash, Python, or Go to streamline developer workflows.
- Working with AWS serverless services such as Lambda and API Gateway.
- Improving system observability and reliability using Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
- Contributing to our internal developer platform using Backstage to enable self-service and better developer experience.
- Collaborating with Engineering, Architecture, and Security on secure, scalable cloud solutions.
- Participating in incident response, troubleshooting, and ongoing platform improvements.
Qualifications
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
- Deep experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, especially Terraform.
- Solid experience operating and supporting Kubernetes/EKS in production.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Docker, and deployment automation.
- Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD preferred).
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
- Strong understanding of containers, networking, and distributed systems.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex cloud and platform issues.
Nice to Have
- Experience with observability tooling or SRE practices.
- Exposure to security, governance automation, or policy-as-code.
- Experience building or contributing to internal developer platforms, platform templates, or self-service workflows.
Why Basiq?
At Basiq, you’ll work on meaningful problems that shape the future of finance and directly impact millions of consumers.
You’ll join a collaborative engineering culture that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Work on a platform powering some of Australia’s most innovative fintechs.
- Influence architecture and infrastructure decisions across the organisation.
- Work across a modern, cloud-native technology stack and automate everything you touch.
