Senior DevOps Engineer - Intelligence Layer & Data Delivery

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the WIB Intelligence Layer & Data Platforms team. The role designs a secure, scalable Snowflake-based intelligence layer across Azure and AWS, delivering multi-tenant architectures and robust data pipelines.

You will drive CI/CD, automation and production-grade platform engineering for complex banking workloads, balancing performance, security and cost while collaborating across enterprise platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Cloud and DevOps Engineering experience.
• Strong CI/CD, automation and production-grade platform engineering experience.
• Experience with data lakes, big data and secure data integration patterns.
• Multi-cloud capability across AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills.
• Commercial acumen and a practical approach to balancing performance, security and cost.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-tenant Snowflake account structures with segmentation, RBAC, cost controls and reporting.
• Develop secure, scalable integration patterns and data pipelines across Azure, AWS and enterprise platforms.
• Build and operationalise a Snowflake-based intelligence layer supporting analytics, AI/ML and LLM service integration.
• Monitor platform performance, apply cost-control strategies and uphold security and governance standards.
• Enable reliable pipelines and APIs connecting key enterprise platforms and downstream systems.

Skills

CI/CD

Automation

Cloud engineering

Multi-cloud

Problem solving

Communication

Commercial acumen

Data experience

Education

Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Multi-cloud Snowflake Platform Engineering

Sydney or Melbourne location / Hybrid Working

Help build the intelligence layer that turns complex data into better decisions.

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join the WIB Intelligence Layer & Data Platforms engineering team. Bring your cloud, automation and data-platform expertise to complex institutional banking challenges while helping shape a secure, scalable Snowflake platform across Microsoft Azure and AWS.

How you will make an impact

• Design multi-tenant Snowflake account structures, including Dev, Test and Production segmentation, role-based access control, cost controls and reporting.
• Develop secure, scalable integration patterns and data pipelines across Azure, AWS and enterprise platforms.
• Build and operationalise a Snowflake-based intelligence layer supporting analytics, AI/ML and LLM service integration.
• Monitor platform performance, apply cost-control strategies and uphold security and governance standards.
• Enable reliable pipelines and APIs connecting key enterprise platforms and downstream systems.

What you will bring

• 5+ years of hands-on Cloud and DevOps Engineering experience.
• Strong CI/CD, automation and production-grade platform engineering experience.
• Experience with data lakes, big data and secure data integration patterns.
• Multi-cloud capability across AWS, Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication and collaboration skills.
• Commercial acumen and a practical approach to balancing performance, security and cost.

Highly regarded

• A degree or postgraduate qualification in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• Financial services experience.
• Experience leading complex data engineering initiatives.

The team

Join the WIB Intelligence Layer & Data Platforms engineering team, which identifies challenging data and analytics problems across Westpac Institutional Bank and solves them through innovation and experimentation.

Why join us

• Broaden your impact across WIB through a strategic multi-cloud data capability.
• Work with modern Snowflake, cloud, automation and AI-adjacent technologies.
• Collaborate across engineering and enterprise platform teams on meaningful business problems.

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