Lead Platform Engineer

Macquarie Bank Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Learning & development

Hybrid work

Work from home equipment

Job summary

Macquarie Bank Limited is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer for the Strata management platform. You will own design, security and operation of infrastructure, driving reliability through automation and cloud services.

You will collaborate with experts to automate environments end-to-end, build tooling for repeatable processes, and establish frameworks ensuring trustworthy releases across customer environments. Hybrid and flexible work arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading cross-team technical initiatives.
• Deep AWS platform expertise across multi-region deployments.
• Hands-on in IaC with Terraform/Terragrunt and modular design.

Responsibilities

• Own design, security and operation of infrastructure and platforms.
• Automate environments end-to-end and build repeatable tooling.
• Own release processes, incident response and observability practices.

Skills

Technical Leadership

AWS Platform Expertise

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD & Secure Delivery

Linux Administration

Python Scripting

Incident Management

Networking (VPC/Route53)

Observability & Monitoring

Puppet/Hiera

Tools

Terraform/Terragrunt

AWS (Lambda, Aurora)

Puppet

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

Join our PropertyIQ team, we are passionate about leveraging cloud engineering practices to deliver superior services. Our dedication to quality and continuous improvement is the cornerstone of our culture. We are doing great things which will revolutionise how our customers interact with us and our products.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

As a Senior Platform Engineer on our strata management platform, you will be instrumental in shaping the engineering foundations that every development team builds upon. You will own the design, security, and operation of our infrastructure, driving reliability and scalability through automation, robust configuration management, and the strategic use of cloud services.

In this role, you will collaborate with a team of experts to stand up and automate environments end-to-end, build the tooling that makes our processes repeatable, and own the frameworks that ensure every release is trustworthy. From how we deploy and operate services to how we detect and respond to incidents, your work will directly contribute to our commitment to excellence and innovation in the strata services sector. You will be the engineer other teams rely on when something foundational needs to just work

What you offer

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Proven ability to drive ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end as a technical lead. You actively coach and mentor other senior engineers to elevate overall capability and architectural mastery, going far beyond standard pull request reviews


• Production Reliability, SLO Governance & Incident Management: Hands-on ownership of production platform health, ensuring high-availability environments that meet our 99.98% SLO targets. You will lead incident response, establish robust observability/alerting, and actively guide other engineering and product squads on reliability best practices.


• Deep AWS Platform Expertise: Deep, multi-region expertise in AWS at platform scale. You possess broad and deep mastery across a wide array of AWS native services—including serverless compute (Lambda), relational databases (Aurora RDS), enterprise security design (KMS/CMK, IAM), and complex networking (VPC, ALB, Route53)—coupled with the architectural judgment to make design trade-offs that hold up across dozens of highly active customer environments.


• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Mastery: Track record owning Terraform/Terragrunt at a module-author level—designing, versioning, and maintaining reusable, semver-tagged modules consumed across environments, rather than just writing per-environment configs.


• AI-Assisted Engineering & Agent Development: Hands-on proficiency with AI tooling (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) and integrating AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC. Experience crafting custom system instructions, defining tool-calling schemas, and implementing custom model tool definitions to orchestrate DevOps agents and autonomous, agent-based tools.


• Next-Generation Cloud Networking: Experience designing secure transit routing, with the ability to help deliver on our upcoming network roadmap including routing egress via AWS Transit Gateways, configuring AWS Network Firewalls, and managing complex VPC routing tables.


• Zero-Risk Security & Vulnerability Posture: Commitment to a zero-risk production environment by implementing robust vulnerability management, pipeline-gated compliance scanning, and endpoint protection.


• Modern CI/CD & Secure Delivery: Multi-platform pipeline expertise (spanning GitHub Actions and Bitbucket Pipelines with OIDC-federated AWS authentication) with a track record of continuously improving pipeline reliability and building automated security gates.


• Advanced Configuration Management: Advanced Puppet expertise, including owning a deep, multi-dimensional Hiera hierarchy and roles/profiles architecture serving per-customer configuration at scale without introducing fleet regressions.


• Systems Administration & Scripting: Strong Linux administration background (performance tuning, security hardening, multi-system diagnosis) combined with solid Python and Bash scripting to build tooling that other engineers rely on.

What we offer

At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year


• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year


• Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers


• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching


• Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave


• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations


• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options


• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription


• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role


• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that's buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.