DevOps Engineer

CareCone Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CareCone Group is seeking a senior DevOps/Platform Engineer in Sydney to drive cloud infrastructure, CI/CD automation, and platform reliability. You will collaborate with Engineering, QA, Operations, Security, and Architecture teams to deliver scalable, compliant deployments across environments.

The role requires 9+ years in DevOps or related fields, strong AWS experience, and hands-on expertise with GitLab SaaS, Terraform, and Ansible.

Qualifications

• 9+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
• Hands-on with AWS cloud services (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, RDS/Aurora).
• Strong expertise in GitLab SaaS, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release orchestration.
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible for IaC and configuration management.
• Proficient in Linux administration and Bash/Python scripting.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and support AWS cloud infrastructure for Calypso platform.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab SaaS for automated deployments across environments.
• Migrate workloads from on-premise to AWS cloud platforms.
• Implement and maintain IaC using Terraform and Ansible.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

SRE

Bash/Python scripting

Linux administration

Change management

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

GitLab SaaS

Terraform

Ansible

HashiCorp Vault

Liquibase

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

• Build, maintain, and support AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Calypso platform and related services.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab SaaS, enabling automated and repeatable deployments across environments.
• Support the migration of Calypso workloads from on-premise infrastructure to AWS cloud platforms.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
• Automate application deployments, database refreshes, environment provisioning, and operational support processes.
• Partner with Engineering, QA, Application Support, Infrastructure, and Architecture teams to improve delivery efficiency and platform resilience.
• Support Aurora PostgreSQL migration activities, including deployment automation, configuration management, and environment support.
• Drive observability improvements through logging, monitoring, alerting, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, and related tooling.
• Manage secrets, certificates, credentials, and access controls using enterprise-approved security patterns and tools.
• Support release governance, production readiness assessments, change management, and incident response activities.
• Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues across multiple environments.
• Contribute to DevOps standards, reusable pipeline patterns, and cloud deployment frameworks across the Markets technology domain.
• Maintain operational runbooks, environment documentation, deployment procedures, and platform standards.
• Support Calypso platform upgrades, service releases, and modernization initiatives including future containerization and cloud-native deployment models.

Must have

• 9+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, and RDS/Aurora.
• Strong expertise in GitLab SaaS, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and release orchestration.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Strong Linux administration and shell scripting skills (Bash/Python).
• Experience supporting mission-critical production systems in highly regulated environments.
• Strong understanding of deployment strategies, change management, environment management, and release governance.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management capabilities.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, database, infrastructure, and networking layers.
• Experience with secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault.
• Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work across Engineering, QA, Operations, Security, and Architecture teams.

Nice to have

• Experience working with the Calypso platform or capital markets trading, clearing, collateral, or risk systems.
• Experience with Oracle-to-Aurora PostgreSQL migrations.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native deployment patterns.
• Exposure to OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, or enterprise observability platforms.
• Experience with Liquibase, database automation, schema migrations, and configuration management.
• Knowledge of financial services, exchange infrastructure, or regulated technology environments.
• Exposure to test automation frameworks and DevOps-driven Quality Engineering practices.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud transformation and platform modernization initiatives.

Preferred Tooling & Technologies

• Cloud: AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, Aurora PostgreSQL, VPC, CloudWatch)
• DevOps: GitLab SaaS, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault, Liquibase
• Monitoring & Observability: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, ELK, Grafana
• Financial Platforms (Preferred): Calypso, Clearing, Collateral Management, Capital Markets Systems