Rust Engineering Lead: Cloud-Native & Agile Leader

NCS; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Health insurance discounts

Discounts on products and services

Job summary

NCS Australia is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive cloud-native software delivery and platform modernization across Australia and APAC.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and champion Agile, DevOps, SRE, and CI/CD practices while delivering secure, scalable solutions for government and enterprise clients. This role combines technical leadership with strategic delivery in a fast-moving tech services environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers within Agile software development teams.
• Strong software engineering background with hands-on experience in Rust and exposure to Python and/or C++.
• Experience designing and delivering scalable, secure, and reliable applications, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of software architecture, system integration, and modern engineering practices.
• Experience with DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, automated testing, Infrastructure as Code, and secure software development.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and infrastructure automation such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible.
• Familiarity with REST, gRPC, MQTT, JSON, XML, and Protobuf.
• Experience with GitLab, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, and Confluence.
• Strong problem-solving, stakeholder management, communication, and coaching skills.
• Experience with cloud-native, edge, IoT, or other distributed systems environments.
• Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Managers and Designers to understand customer needs, shape technical solutions, and lead an Agile team to deliver roadmap priorities and sprint outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership across architecture, software design, security, performance, scalability, reliability, and engineering best practices.
• Lead and contribute to the development, testing, deployment, and support of cloud-native applications, microservices, APIs, platforms, and user interfaces.
• Champion Agile, DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, automated testing, and secure software development practices.
• Collaborate with Engineering Leads, Architects, and Product teams to drive technology, process, tooling, and platform improvements.
• Support technical decision-making, technology selection, architecture governance, and alignment with engineering standards and reference architectures.
• Oversee platform and cloud engineering activities, including infrastructure automation, containerisation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
• Ensure delivery of secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable solutions that meet customer and business objectives.
• Support product deployments, customer implementations, technical escalations, training, and ongoing operational support.
• Mentor and coach engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and foster a high-performing, collaborative engineering culture.
• Drive continuous improvement across people, processes, technology, and delivery, while documenting and communicating outcomes to enable repeatable and sustainable practices.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and role model company values across all interactions.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Agile methodologies

Education

Tertiary qualification in Software Engineering / CS / IT

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Artifactory

Jira

Confluence

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

NCS Australia is seeking an experienced engineering leader to drive cloud-native software delivery and platform modernization across Australia and APAC.

You will mentor engineers, shape architecture, and champion Agile, DevOps, SRE, and CI/CD practices while delivering secure, scalable solutions for government and enterprise clients. This role combines technical leadership with strategic delivery in a fast-moving tech services environment.