Summary
Jan Groth is a Lead Consultant and platform-focused DevOps engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms from foundation to self-service. Based in Sydney, he has led platform engineering at Future Fund—growing a team from two to seven and delivering end-to-end infrastructure automation, an EKS migration, and Vault operations—while modernizing cloud estates for major insurers and financial firms. He blends hands-on skills across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, GitOps and CI/CD with a track record of automating BAU and security workflows to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. Comfortable in regulated environments, Jan repeatedly translates first-principles architecture into compliant, observable, and developer-friendly platforms. An early Java and JEE practitioner turned cloud native specialist, he brings both deep systems knowledge and practical delivery leadership to complex platform transformations.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma computer science, Diploma computer science at Technical University Braunschweig / Germany
English, German