Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer — Observability Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work options

Job summary

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Sydney, NSW, seeks a Senior Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering to design and evolve engineering platforms, automation frameworks and operational tooling across the Equities Trading Technology ecosystem.

The role is hands-on with platform enablement, driving consistency in deployment patterns, infrastructure automation, observability and security controls to improve delivery quality and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Act as 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 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.

Job description

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Sydney, NSW, seeks a Senior Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering to design and evolve engineering platforms, automation frameworks and operational tooling across the Equities Trading Technology ecosystem.

The role is hands-on with platform enablement, driving consistency in deployment patterns, infrastructure automation, observability and security controls to improve delivery quality and resilience.