Portable is seeking a highly experienced technologist to join their embedded consulting practice as a Principal Technology Consultant. The role involves working with clients to provide technology leadership, technical uplift, and problem-solving for complex infrastructure and cloud-related projects.
Requirements
- Deep, hands-on AWS expertise, ideally holding AWS Professional or Specialist certifications
- Experience designing and implementing cloud landing zones, multi-account architectures, and global-scale infrastructure
- High proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, AWS CDK, or similar) and treating it as standard practice
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for complex, production-grade systems
- Strong Linux and Windows systems knowledge
- Understanding of cloud economics at a practical level
- Experience with database performance, scalability assessment, and working across SQL and cloud-native data patterns
- Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments and applying secure-by-default thinking
- Ability to work closely with client engineering teams and communicate clearly
- Principal/engineering manager-level practitioner with technical excellence, adaptability across stacks, and high autonomy
- Curiosity and generosity with a willingness to share knowledge and engage with problems
Benefits
- Meaningful work with clients building things that matter
- Flexible work arrangements with hybrid and remote options
- Enhanced leave with bonus annual leave, purchasable additional leave, paid volunteering leave, and paid mental health days
- Growth and development opportunities with a $2,000 annual professional development allowance
- Wellbeing support with up to 4 counselling sessions per year
- Financial incentives with profit-sharing bonus, employee share plan options, and salary sacrificing
- Family-friendly policies with enhanced parental leave and flexible arrangements
