Lead DevOps Engineer: Platform Reliability & Automation

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance Discount

Rest Day

IMPACT Day

Job summary

ING leads the search for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to drive platform reliability and automation across the organisation. You’ll blend strategic thinking with hands-on technical expertise to establish best practices, governance, and standards for cloud and on-prem environments.

You will mentor teams, drive major incident resolution, and partner with architecture, security, and engineering to deliver scalable, resilient platforms.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong expertise across Azure, Kubernetes, Kafka, middleware technologies, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and modern CI/CD toolchains.
• A strong focus on platform reliability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Experience managing major incidents and production environments at scale.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• A passion for continuous improvement, automation, and developing others.

Responsibilities

• Lead the management and optimisation of Kafka, Pega, middleware services, Azure cloud, and Kubernetes platforms.
• Drive reliability through automation, monitoring, observability, and DevOps best practices.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capabilities.
• Support platform upgrades, migrations, and strategic technology initiatives.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
• Embed security, compliance, and operational risk controls across platform operations.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, and security teams to deliver business-critical outcomes.
• Mentor engineers and help uplift platform engineering standards across the organisation.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

Infrastructure Engineering

Azure

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

IaC

Observability

Incident management

Stakeholder engagement

Mentoring

Automation

Hybrid cloud

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Kafka

Pega

CI/CD toolchains

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

ING leads the search for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer to drive platform reliability and automation across the organisation. You’ll blend strategic thinking with hands-on technical expertise to establish best practices, governance, and standards for cloud and on-prem environments.

You will mentor teams, drive major incident resolution, and partner with architecture, security, and engineering to deliver scalable, resilient platforms.