Cloud Platform Engineer – Automate, Secure & Scale

Macquarie Group; New South Wales; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day

Service bonus leave

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Gender affirmation leave

Wellbeing & health checks

Salary packaging options

Learning and development support

Hybrid and flexible working

Work from home equipment reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie Group invites experienced engineers to design, build and support platform services used by engineering teams across the organisation. You will enhance automation, reliability and security across our cloud environment, while contributing to platform engineering, AI initiatives, governance and site reliability.

Join a global financial services group that values innovation and continuous learning, with hybrid working arrangements and a broad range of learning and development opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing and maintaining production-grade applications across cloud platforms.
• Strong backend engineering expertise, including designing and building scalable microservices and APIs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud-native infrastructure automation.
• Strong engineering mindset with focus on automation, observability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with ability to evaluate new technologies including AI-assisted tools.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and work across cloud infrastructure and automation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and support platform services used by engineering teams globally.
• Improve automation, reliability and security across our cloud environment.
• Contribute to initiatives in platform engineering, AI, governance and site reliability.

Skills

Backend engineering

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Distributed systems

AWS Cloud

AI tools

Problem solving

Tools

AWS CloudFormation

VPC

IAM

EC2

Lambda

Job description

Macquarie Group invites experienced engineers to design, build and support platform services used by engineering teams across the organisation. You will enhance automation, reliability and security across our cloud environment, while contributing to platform engineering, AI initiatives, governance and site reliability.

Join a global financial services group that values innovation and continuous learning, with hybrid working arrangements and a broad range of learning and development opportunities.