Platform Engineering Lead

About CES

Accelerating the transition to a circular economy

We are proud to be an active contributor in the circular economy through container deposit schemes (10c refund for eligible drink containers). We help our scheme partners to recycle close to 10 million drink containers every day, diverting them from landfill into the circular economy.

Our technology and services enable the circular lifecycle of drink containers. We have a large in-house software engineering team using modern technology stacks to develop and support our products. As well as a suite of SaaS products, our range of business services includes accounting, payments, brand & marketing, materials trading, HR, customer service and support.

CES was formed in 2017 as a joint venture between Lion and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and has grown rapidly. We are headquartered in North Sydney, near public transport with beautiful harbour views. Our teams are passionate about our mission to ensure valuable materials are recycled and not wasted. We provide an inclusive culture, hybrid and flexible working and career development to bring the best out in our people.

Originally known as Container Exchange Services, we have rebranded to Circular Economy Systems to recognise our vision to be leaders in the transition to a circular economy.

About The Role

You will play a critical role in guiding and delivering capabilities in Microsoft Azure. This role requires deep technical expertise in designing, building, and maintaining Azure infrastructure, as well as leading Platform practices that enable secure, scalable, and resilient systems.

You will also mentor and guide a small team of engineers, ensuring best practices in automation, CI/CD, security, and monitoring are embedded throughout our technology function.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure to support business applications and services.
• Ensure systems meet high standards of security, availability, scalability, and performance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to Platform engineers.
• Oversee and shape the data migration from AWS to Azure, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum optimisation.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration, automated testing, and secure deployments.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Establish best practice monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks across Azure environments.
• Collaborate with development, security, and product teams to align infrastructure with application needs.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated processes for software delivery and infrastructure management.
• Collaborate with other Engineering teams to ensure software delivery meets business requirements.
• Maintain strong documentation of systems, processes, and procedures.
• Stay up to date with emerging cloud and Platform technologies, recommending improvements where relevant.
  
  

• Significant experience as a Platform Lead/DevSecOps Lead or similar role.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure cloud services including Identity (Entra), Security and Governance, API Management, Power Platform (Dataverse, BI, Automate, Pages), API Management and Azure Application Insight.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep, Pulumi, Terraform or similar.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure Platform, GitHub Actions).
• Strong knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Good programming skills (e.g., C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python).
• Solid understanding of networking, identity and access management in cloud environments.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills and ability to lead and influence stakeholders.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL.
• Experience in AWS and data migration tools a big positive.
  
  

• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400).
• Azure lifecycle services for Dynamics 365.
• Knowledge of AWS infrastructure to support migration planning.
• Experience managing or mentoring Platform teams.
  
  

• Scheme success is our success: Our mission is to accelerate recycling rates. We make decisions in the best interest of all schemes to maximise our impact for individuals, community, and the environment.
• Win as a Team: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Great things are achieved in teams that combine the right expertise and leadership.
• Make a Difference: Take initiative, take ownership. Openly communicate the outcome you want and go make it happen!
• Be Engaged: Reflect your passion in your work, no matter the task or challenge. Your engagement is a source of inspiration to your peers.
• Do the Right Thing: Do the right thing by others and the company, and the rest will follow. Seek win-win outcomes, listen, act inclusively, and always aim for better.