Cloud Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & CI/CD Expert

Macquarie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Bonus leave

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Gender affirmation leave

EAP benefits

Salary packaging

Learning & development

Hybrid work

Home office stipend

Job summary

Macquarie Group is seeking a Platform Engineer in Sydney to own the engineering foundations for scalable cloud services. You will automate environments end-to-end, drive platform automation, and own frameworks ensuring trustworthy releases.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to reduce toil and accelerate delivery in a hybrid work model. The role focuses on GCP/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and API-driven architectures, with emphasis on reliability, data migrations, and impactful

Qualifications

• Cloud Platform & Kubernetes expertise across GCP and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Automation design/build for GCP/Kubernetes environments end-to-end.
• Secure, automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform foundations used by all dev teams, from deployment to operation and incident response.
• Design, build, and maintain automation to stand up GCP/Kubernetes environments and tooling.
• Serve as the go-to engineer for foundational stability and reliability across the platform.

Skills

Cloud & Kubernetes

Platform Automation

CI/CD

Observability

Data Migration

System Integration

AI-assisted Engineering

Collaborative Skills

Job description

Macquarie Group is seeking a Platform Engineer in Sydney to own the engineering foundations for scalable cloud services. You will automate environments end-to-end, drive platform automation, and own frameworks ensuring trustworthy releases.

You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams to reduce toil and accelerate delivery in a hybrid work model. The role focuses on GCP/Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and API-driven architectures, with emphasis on reliability, data migrations, and impactful