DevOps Engineer

Cloud Raptor; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Raptor is seeking a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer in Sydney to lead cloud-native platform delivery. You will design and operate secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes-based platforms supporting multiple engineering teams.

The role emphasizes Terraform, GitOps, IaC, and automation across AWS, Azure and hybrid environments, with a focus on observability, platform reliability, and governance in regulated finance contexts.

Qualifications

• Extensive Kubernetes and cloud-native engineering experience in regulated environments.
• Strong Terraform, IaC and GitOps proficiency with pipeline automation.
• Hands-on experience across AWS, Azure and GCP and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate enterprise CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Develop and run Kubernetes-based platforms for multiple engineering teams.
• Implement GitOps using ArgoCD/FluxCD, Helm and Terraform across multiple clouds.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform lifecycle via IaC.
• Support cloud-native delivery across AWS/Azure/hybrid environments.
• Build observability, monitoring, logging, alerts, and dashboards for platform reliability.
• Enhance security, governance, secrets management and incident response.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

AWS

Security

Observability

IaC

Tools

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Cloud Raptor is a modern technology and digital transformation partner helping organisations design, build, and scale intelligent, future-ready solutions. We exist to close the gap between business ambition and technology execution—delivering outcomes that are measurable, secure, and built to last.

Our teams bring together experienced consultants, product specialists, and certified engineers with deep expertise across cloud platforms, enterprise software engineering, DevOps, AI/ML, cybersecurity, and large-scale digital transformation. We work closely with our clients to modernise legacy environments, optimise operations, and launch digital products that create real competitive advantage.

We support organisations across BFSI, Retail, Utilities, Education, and the Public Sector, delivering tailored solutions that align with each client’s strategic goals, risk profile, and growth roadmap. Our approach blends strong domain knowledge with pragmatic delivery—ensuring technology decisions translate into real business value.

Headquartered in Australia, with delivery hubs across India, the Philippines, the UK, the US, and the UAE, Cloud Raptor combines global scale with strong local expertise. Whether modernising core platforms, scaling cloud infrastructure, or building AI-driven products, we help organisations move faster with confidence.

At our core, Cloud Raptor is built on long-term partnerships, continuous learning, and outcome-driven delivery. We don’t just implement technology—we help shape what’s next. Let’s calibrate your future with technology.

Capital Markets, Post Trade & Payments

Location: Sydney

Client: Enterprise Financial Services Organisation

Overview

The client is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to support the delivery, automation, security, and operational excellence of critical post-trade and payments platforms.

Working across cloud, infrastructure, application, and engineering teams, you will help build and operate secure, highly available, cloud-native platforms that support trading operations, settlements, payments processing, and enterprise technology services.

This role is ideally suited to a DevOps or Platform Engineer with strong Kubernetes expertise, cloud engineering capability, Infrastructure-as-Code experience, and a passion for automation, platform reliability, and developer enablement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation frameworks.
• Develop and operate Kubernetes-based platforms supporting multiple engineering teams.
• Implement GitOps deployment practices using tools such as ArgoCD, FluxCD, Helm and Terraform.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and platform lifecycle management through Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Support cloud-native application delivery across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
• Build and maintain observability solutions including monitoring, logging, alerting and operational dashboards.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, security and operational resilience.
• Implement secrets management and secure platform controls across multiple environments.
• Support release management, production deployments and service reliability initiatives.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve developer experience and delivery velocity.
• Assist with incident management, root cause analysis and continuous improvement activities.
• Contribute to platform governance, security standards and operational best practices.

Terraform Experience

EKS SME

• Solid understanding of core Terraform concepts, including resources, modules, data sources, locals, variables, providers, and outputs.
• Experience with different Terraform code execution whether running locally or through CI/CD pipelines, and the ability to troubleshoot pipeline-related issues.
• Awareness of Terraform security best practices, including state file protection, policy enforcement (OPA/Sentinel), and code scanning/security validation.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes architecture, including the control plane, worker nodes, scheduler, and other core components.
• Experience with workload types such as Deployments, Stateful Sets, Replica Sets, Jobs etc.
• Knowledge of EKS security concepts, including IAM integration, RBAC, network access controls/endpoints, and policy enforcement tools such as Kyverno or Gatekeeper.

Terraform

• Solid understanding of core Terraform concepts, including resources, modules, data sources, locals, variables, providers, and outputs.
• Experience with different Terraform code execution whether running locally or through CI/CD pipelines, and the ability to troubleshoot pipeline-related issues.
• Awareness of Terraform security best practices, including state file protection, policy enforcement (OPA/Sentinel), and code scanning/security validation.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes architecture, including the control plane, worker nodes, scheduler, and other core components.
• Experience with workload types such as Deployments, Stateful Sets, Replica Sets, Jobs etc.
• Knowledge of EKS security concepts, including IAM integration, RBAC, network access controls/endpoints, and policy enforcement tools such as Kyverno or Gatekeeper.

CI/CD

• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with appropriate validation, error handling, and logging.
• Understanding of Docker builds, container images, image scanning, and container registries.
• Experience with reusable pipeline components/shared libraries and secure secrets management practices.
• Strong DevOps, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
• Strong AWS experience with exposure to Azure and/or GCP highly regarded.
• Experience implementing GitOps operating models.

Expertise with

• Strong automation and scripting capability using Python, Bash or similar languages.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code solutions.
• Experience with secure platform engineering and secrets management solutions.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience supporting business‑critical enterprise platforms in regulated environments.

Highly Desirable

Capital Markets Domain

• Exposure to Post Trade platforms.
• Payments and Settlements environments.
• Trade lifecycle workflows.
• Institutional Banking or Financial Markets technology.
• Calypso platform exposure.
• Treasury or Custody platforms. Platform Engineering • HashiCorp Vault.
• Shared platform engineering models.

Technical Environment

Experience across several of:

CI/CD & GitOps

• GitHub Actions

Security & Governance

• Vulnerability Management

Observability

Languages

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will combine strong DevOps and Platform Engineering experience with deep Kubernetes and cloud-native expertise. They will be passionate about automation, developer enablement, platform security, observability, and operational excellence.

They will understand the importance of reliability, governance, scalability and resilience within highly regulated financial services environments and will be comfortable supporting platforms used by multiple engineering teams across critical post-trade and payments systems.