Senior Cloud Platform Developer

NovaWorks is seeking experienced Cloud Platform Developers to help scale our parliamentary services SaaS platform serving governments worldwide.

Remote role - Australia-wide

Why Join NovaWorks?

We're in an exciting growth phase, expanding our platform to new jurisdictions globally. You'll work on genuinely meaningful software that powers democratic institutions, with long-term customers (18+ years) who trust us to innovate while maintaining rock-solid reliability.

This role offers the opportunity to work with modern cloud-native architecture at scale: 50+ microservices, multi-region Kubernetes deployments, and a pure GitOps approach using infrastructure-as-code. You'll be applying cutting-edge practices like policy-as-code governance while learning from a technically sophisticated team.

We're remote-first and open to candidates anywhere in Australia.

What You'll Be Working On

You'll contribute to our core parliamentary services platform used by legislative bodies worldwide. This includes:

Developing and maintaining microservices in our cloud-native architecture

Working within our GitOps workflow with Kubernetes

Collaborating on cloud-agnostic infrastructure solutions

Contributing to our transition from vendor-specific to portable cloud patterns

Supporting production systems with direct customer impact

Limited travel may be required for customer engagements or team events.

Our Technology Stack

Core Requirements (3+ years minimum):

C# / .NET Core - microservice architecture, API development

TypeScript / Angular - modern frontend development

Kubernetes - understanding of pods, deployments, services, and cloud-native patterns

Git workflows - branching strategies, code review processes

Azure cloud services - compute, storage, networking fundamentals

CI/CD pipelines - automated build and deployment experience

Test-driven development - XUnit or similar frameworks

Highly Valued Experience:

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Kustomize, Helm)

GitOps workflows and principles

Multi-cloud or cloud-agnostic architecture patterns

Container security and policy enforcement

Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms

Entity Framework Core and Azure SQL

Monitoring and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Seq, or similar)

Basic Go knowledge or AOT compilation concepts

Nice to Have:

Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA) or policy-as-code

Service mesh understanding (Istio, Linkerd)

Micro-frontend architecture (Module Federation)

Azure Workload Identity or Kubernetes service accounts

External secrets management patterns

What We're Looking For

Must Have:

Unlimited right to work in Australia

3+ years professional .NET development experience

Strong C# and modern API design skills

Production Kubernetes experience

Solid understanding of cloud platform services

Experience working in agile/scrum teams

Problem-solving mindset and initiative

Ideal Candidate:

Comfortable challenging existing patterns and proposing better approaches

Values infrastructure discipline and operational excellence

Enjoys working with complex distributed systems

Passionate about clean code and maintainable architecture

Positive team player who communicates clearly and collaboratively

Interested in the civic tech space and democratic institutions

We work hard but maintain work-life balance, celebrate wins together, and value pragmatic engineering over unnecessary complexity. We're looking for someone who brings both technical excellence and a collaborative spirit.

Role Details

Type: Full-time, permanent

Location: Remote (Australia)

Team: Distributed development team

No recruiters please.

NovaWorks is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.