Platform DevOps Lead Engineer

Macquarie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Parental leave

Volunteer leave

Gender affirmation leave

Employee Assistance Program

Learning & development

Hybrid work

Work from home equip reimburse

Job summary

Macquarie Group is seeking a senior DevOps leader to build and lead a high-performing team focused on developer experience and automation within Cyber Engineering. You will shape a modern internal platform that enables secure, scalable engineering across identity, security and data platforms.

You will drive platform-as-a-product thinking, improve developer productivity, and guide end-to-end automation maturity with governance and security-by-design principles, while mentoring engineers and

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud-native platforms.
• Proven track record leading DevOps/Platform teams.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, IaC, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing DevOps team within Cyber Engineering.
• Define and deliver a modern internal platform for secure, scalable engineering.
• Drive platform-as-a-product mindset to boost developer productivity.
• Guide automation maturity and governance across identity, security and data platforms.
• Mentor engineers and align work with enterprise standards.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

Secrets management

Identity integration

DORA metrics

AI automation

Security by design

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Vault

IAM

Job description

Our DevOps team builds the pipelines, automation, and tooling that make shipping codes to production fast, safe, and a frictionless experience for our developers. Our team run the platform end-to-end, from CI/CD and deployment automation - improving developer experience while keeping a system all Macquarie staff rely on every day for identity management.

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?

In this role you will build and lead a high-performing team responsible for developer experience and automation capabilities within Cyber Engineering. You will define and deliver a modern internal platform that enables secure, scalable, and resilient engineering across identity, security, and data platforms. You will lead a team of DevOps Engineers to drive platform-as-a-product thinking to improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and automation maturity.

What You Offer

• Ability to contribute to defining and executing the platform engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with cyber and enterprise goals. Establish the internal developer platform vision and core capabilities. Drive platform-as-a-product mindset, treating engineering teams as customers. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of highly capable DevOps engineers.
• Experience designing and overseeing secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure and hybrid).
• Ability to design CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.), container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS), secrets and identity integration (Vault, IAM, etc.) to ensure resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns.
• Drive developer productivity by delivering golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service platforms, supported by standardised workflows, developer portals, and automation, and measured through DORA metrics, adoption, and feedback loops. Establish best practices across continuous integration and delivery.
• Introduce AI-driven automation across platform operations. Enable use cases such as AI-assisted troubleshooting, predictive incident detection, intelligent cost optimization. Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows responsibly with governance controls. Ensure human-in-the-loop decision frameworks for critical actions
• Embed security-by-design into platform capabilities. Enforce policies for access control and identity integration, secrets management, compliance and auditability. Partner with cyber security teams to align with enterprise standards.

What We Offer

Benefits

• 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 Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

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.