Principal DevOps Engineer - Platform Leadership (Flexible)

Westpac Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mortgage rate discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Volunteer initiatives

Job summary

Westpac Bank is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead and shape its developer platforms. You will work across GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD tooling, and modern delivery practices to deliver secure, scalable software at bank-wide scale.

The role offers hands-on leadership with strong collaboration across engineering, architecture, security and risk teams, while mentoring engineers and driving automation to improve developer experiences.

Qualifications

• Must have enterprise-scale DevOps, CI/CD or developer platform experience.
• Hands-on with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, GitHub Runners, Artifactory and modern deployment tools (Harness, Argo CD, Octopus Deploy).
• Experience designing IaC and platform automation using Terraform, OpenTofu and APIs.
• Strong software engineering and automation skills (Python, platform integration).
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and Helm for modern delivery.
• Experience building secure, scalable developer platforms and CI/CD best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting across Linux and Windows, with monitoring and observability.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering, architecture, security and risk teams.
• Mentor engineers and drive technical improvements and standardisation.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across developer platforms and CI/CD tooling.
• Shape engineering standards and secure, automated delivery pathways.
• Mentor engineers and improve developer experience through platform engineering.
• Collaborate with architecture, security and risk teams to deliver balanced solutions.

Skills

DevOps leadership

CI/CD

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

GitHub Runners

Artifactory

Harness

Argo CD

Octopus Deploy

Terraform

OpenTofu

APIs

Python

Platform integration

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Monitoring & observability

Linux

Windows

Mentoring engineers

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

GitHub Actions

GitHub Runners

Artifactory

Harness

Argo CD

Octopus Deploy

Terraform

OpenTofu

APIs

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Job description

Westpac Bank is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead and shape its developer platforms. You will work across GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD tooling, and modern delivery practices to deliver secure, scalable software at bank-wide scale.

The role offers hands-on leadership with strong collaboration across engineering, architecture, security and risk teams, while mentoring engineers and driving automation to improve developer experiences.