Senior EDW Platform Engineer

Job details

Posted
26 May 2025
Salary
Weekly pay + Hybrid + Competitive rates
Location
Perth
Job type
Contract
Discipline
BI + Data Analytics
Reference
269905

Job description

Our client is seeking a highly skilled Senior EDW Platform Engineer to join a growing federal program focused on delivering modern, secure, and scalable data infrastructure. This role is pivotal to ensuring the effective performance, integration, and automation of cloud-based Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) environments and associated analytics platforms.

The successful candidate will work closely with cloud infrastructure teams, data engineers, architects, and platform owners to deliver infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability across critical data platforms. The role also includes strategic contributions to data governance, performance tuning, and supporting integration with tools such as dbt, Airflow, and cloud-native technologies (AWS and Azure).

  • 12 months contract with another 12 month extension option
  • Perth based
  • Hybrid role ( 3 days in office and 2 days WFH)
  • Open to Australian citizens with the ability to obtain a Baseline clearance
  • Paxus pays weekly


To be successful in this role you must:



Platform Engineering

  • Provision, configure, and manage EDW environments including accounts, roles, warehouses, and storage using automation tools and APIs.
  • Design and manage secure, scalable environments across development, testing, and production tiers.
  • Implement lifecycle management, storage/compute scaling, and cost optimisation strategies.
  • Support integration with orchestration tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, dbt), ingestion tools (e.g., Fivetran, Informatica), and cloud storage services (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob).


Infrastructure Automation & CI/CD

  • Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and other IaC tools.
  • Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines for schema management, metadata, and transformation workflows following GitOps principles.
  • Maintain reusable deployment templates for consistency and governance across teams.


Monitoring, Performance, and Reliability

  • Establish alerting and observability for EDW platforms using logs, metrics, and third-party tools.
  • Analyse performance issues, advise on optimisation strategies (e.g., partitioning, materialised views).
  • Lead incident response for data infrastructure and ensure high availability.


Security, Compliance, and Governance

  • Implement RBAC, row-level and column-level security, and secure sharing protocols.
  • Manage secrets and credentials using key vaults, OAuth, or SSO integrations.
  • Align platform security and configurations with compliance standards (e.g., ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR).


Collaboration and Enablement

  • Work with analytics and engineering teams to standardise data workflows and support self-service through documentation and enablement.
  • Conduct knowledge sharing and contribute to onboarding processes for tools and platforms.
  • Stay informed of emerging trends and recommend improvements to architecture and toolsets.


To be considered for this role you must:

  1. Minimum 5 years' experience with enterprise-scale Data & Analytics Platforms.
  2. Proven experience in managing SAS Grid, SAS Visual Analytics, and Teradata environments.
  3. Strong experience integrating DevOps practices with analytics and data platforms.
  4. Demonstrated ability to integrate data platforms with various data applications.
  5. Prior experience working in or supporting a Government or Public Sector organisation preferred, with a focus on integration design patterns and enterprise data management.
  6. Proven experience delivering and supporting high-impact enterprise solutions, with a commitment to quality, performance targets, and leadership in operational settings.
  7. Certifications in SAS technologies
  8. Certifications in Teradata
  9. Certifications in DevOps, Agile methodologies, or ITIL

To be considered for the role click the 'apply' button or for more information about this and other opportunities please contact Irina Alrogi on +61 (0)2 6151 9203 or email: [email protected] and quote the above job reference number.

Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.