Graduate Platform Engineer (Cloud) (Feb 2025)

Your role

As a Graduate Platform Engineer at PEXA, you'll join the global Platform Engineering team at the heart of our platforms. Your mission will be to design, build, and roll out foundational platform components and self-service capabilities across multiple geographies, ensuring our platform is resilient, scalable, and secure. Through close collaboration with delivery squads and observability/security teams, you'll grow into a technology all-rounder, delivering impactful services across all layers on a global scale.

You'll gain hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code, automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud solutions, and security hardening. With guidance from senior engineers, you'll work on meaningful initiatives, automating processes, and unlocking efficiencies. This role is perfect for a recent tech graduate eager to kickstart their career in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and software development. PEXA is seeking creative problem-solvers with basic coding/scripting skills, cloud/Linux experience, a strong security focus, and a willingness to continuously learn and grow through immersive, production-level work.

About you

Eligibility Criteria:

• Completed or completing a degree in Computer Science, Software/Data/Security/Platform/Cloud Engineering, or related STEM field on or before February 1st, 2025 (including graduates from 2022 onwards). They also welcome applications from career changers who have completed relevant boot camps or courses to transition into technology roles
• Australian/New Zealand citizen, permanent resident
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and continuous learning abilities
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Passion for technology and driving innovation
• Able to attend key assessment days in September and October 2024
• Available to commence the graduate role in early February 2025

Benefits

PEXA Cares About Your Wellbeing  

• 20 Days Annual Leave  
• 1 wellness day monthly  
• Ability to Purchase Additional Annual Leave  
• $250 Allowance per Year for Wellness Activities  
• Access to Professional Wellbeing Support  

True Flexibility  

• PEXA offers a flexible hybrid work model  
• 12 Weeks 'Workcation' to extend your holiday and work abroad remotely  
• Parental Support  
• Market-Leading Support for Working Parents  
• 20 Weeks of Parental Leave for Primary Carers  
• 12 Weeks Secondary Carers Leave  
• 6 Weeks Flexi Time for Transition Back to Work  
• Up to $1000 per Month for Childcare Costs  

Career Development  

• Upskill with PEXA Academy Certifications  
• Access to 1000’s of Courses on LinkedIn Learning  

Financial Benefits  

• Competitive STI Program with an Opportunity to Earn 200% of Your Target (conditions apply)  
• Platform to Access Discounts Across Hundreds of Australian Businesses

Training, development & rotations

The program features

• Specialised Pathways

Graduates apply and are selected for a specific pathway focused on an in-demand field like software engineering, data engineering, cybersecurity, or platform (cloud) engineering. Each pathway provides deep technical expertise tailored to that specialty area.

• Flexible, Capability-Driven Rotations

Instead of fixed rotation timeframes, the program utilises a capability-driven model. Within their chosen pathway, graduates complete 2-3 rotations of variable duration, moving through each rotation once they demonstrate mastery of the required skills for that rotation. This self-paced approach enables high performers to accelerate their development.

• Strategic Alignment

The program has a dedicated Technology Leadership Team sponsor who ensures tight integration with the company's workforce planning and business priorities. This strategic alignment focuses the curriculum on developing the most relevant capabilities to drive impact.

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Career progression

The Technology Graduate roles are hired as permanent positions from the start. As graduates progress through their chosen pathways and rotations, they are developing long-term technology careers.

The Technology Graduate program equips participants with specialised expertise through tailored pathways, self-paced capability development within that pathway, strategic business alignment, and permanent technology roles. Graduates emerge with well-rounded skills and foundations for long-lasting impact.

Source

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• pexa-group.com/careers/