Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer – Hybrid

Australian Securities Exchange; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney is seeking a Senior Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering to design, build and evolve the engineering platforms, automation frameworks and tooling that underpin the Equities Trading Technology ecosystem.

You will be the technical lead for DevOps within the domain, enabling software teams to deliver reliable, secure and scalable solutions through automation, standardisation and platform engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical lead for DevOps and Platform Engineering within Equities Trading Technology.
• Define domain engineering standards, tooling strategies and automation roadmaps.
• Promote platform engineering principles that enhance developer experience and self-service delivery.
• Partner with Principal Engineers and Architecture teams to align platform capabilities with strategic technology objectives.
• Design, implement and maintain modern CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Improve release automation, deployment consistency and environment management.
• Establish reusable deployment templates and engineering accelerators.
• Drive adoption of automated validation, testing and security controls.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code patterns and reusable infrastructure modules.
• Improve consistency, auditability and repeatability of infrastructure provisioning.
• Promote immutable infrastructure and automation-first operating models.
• Support cloud and on-premises deployment environments.
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting capabilities.
• Establish operational health metrics, service-level indicators and reliability objectives.
• Drive proactive identification of operational risks and performance bottlenecks.
• Support production readiness assessments and operational assurance activities.
• Integrate security controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Promote secure engineering practices and automated policy compliance.
• Partner with Cyber Security teams to improve security posture and assurance.
• Implement security scanning, validation and governance controls within delivery pipelines.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis and post-incident improvement activities.
• Develop automation to simplify operational processes and support activities.
• Reduce manual effort through tooling, automation and workflow optimisation.
• Continuously improve resilience, recoverability and supportability of production services.
• DevOps tooling and platform capabilities.
• CI/CD engineering standards and adoption.
• Automation maturity across delivery teams.
• Observability and monitoring effectiveness.
• Platform reliability and operational readiness.
• Delivery pipeline performance and engineering productivity.
• Compliance with ASX technology, operational risk and security standards.

Job description

Australian Securities Exchange in Sydney is seeking a Senior Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering to design, build and evolve the engineering platforms, automation frameworks and tooling that underpin the Equities Trading Technology ecosystem.

You will be the technical lead for DevOps within the domain, enabling software teams to deliver reliable, secure and scalable solutions through automation, standardisation and platform engineering principles.