Senior Devops Engineer - Data Platforms

SS&C Technologies; Council of the City of Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services technology firm is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Sydney/Melbourne to collaborate on building, supporting, and enhancing cloud platforms for data solutions. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience, strong automation skills, and familiarity with AWS and CI/CD practices. This position offers a hybrid work model and a range of benefits designed to support employee wellbeing.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model

Income Protection Insurance

Health Insurance discount

Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave

Financial perks such as discounts on fitness clubs

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a DevOps engineering role, ideally with data platform experience.
• Strong understanding of SDLC principles and automation.
• Experience with AWS security and networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Mentor DevOps and Data Platform team members.
• Assess and build monitoring capabilities for data environments.

Skills

DevOps practices

Automation

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

AWS hosting

Microsoft SQL

Postgres

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

Git

Octopus Deploy

TeamCity

Grafana

Splunk

Job description

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Data Platform

Location: Sydney/Melbourne, Australia || Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products. The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions. SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries.

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance
• Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave
• Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more!

What You Will Get To Do:

SS&C Bluedoor is during a significant technology transformation, modernizing its systems and migrating to the AU Private Cloud. As part of this journey, we are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to help build, support, and enhance our cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines.

In this role, you will work closely with the cross-functional Data Platform team, collaborating with data engineers, architects, and analysts to ensure our infrastructure and pipelines meet the needs of high-performance, scalable, and secure data solutions. You will bridge DevOps capabilities with data platform requirements, enabling the delivery of robust, automated, and reliable environments for data-driven applications.

• Partner with the Data Platform team to design, build, and maintain infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that support data services, analytics, and machine learning workloads.
• Mentor and guide DevOps and Data Platform team members on automation, tooling, and best practices.
• Assess and build new monitoring capabilities for both on-premises and cloud-hosted data environments.
• Design and implement automation solutions using Terraform, PowerShell, Unix scripting, and container technologies (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Manage the creation and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines (Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Git, GitHub Actions).
• Work with tools such as Grafana, Splunk, and Site24x7 for operational visibility and proactive performance management.
• Implement testing and automation frameworks for data workflows and platform services.
• Collaborate with the Data Platform team on security and compliance measures, including AWS WAFs, firewalls, and access policies.
• Provide 2nd-level DevOps support, particularly for data platform-related services and applications.
• Support the DevOps Manager/Lead in delivering project milestones on time and to high quality.

What You Will Bring:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years in a DevOps engineering role, ideally with experience supporting data platform or analytics environments.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, SDLC principles, and automation.
• Experience with AWS hosting, security, and networking, including transit gateways.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Microsoft SQL, Postgres, and cloud-based data solutions.
• Background in supporting microservices and data-driven applications.

Personal Attributes:

• Passion for automating manual processes
• Keen to continuously improve & innovate
• Ability to manage high pressure scenarios.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships.
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Ability to manage and deliver against time constraints.

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's essential to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.