Senior Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering

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 – Sydney NSW

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you're joining a company with a strong purpose - to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you'll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We're proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we're committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

About the Role

The Senior Engineer - DevOps & Platform Engineering is responsible for designing, building and evolving the engineering platforms, automation frameworks and operational tooling that underpin the Equities Trading Technology ecosystem.

The role serves as the technical lead for DevOps practices within the domain, enabling software engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure and resilient solutions through automation, standardisation and platform engineering principles.

Working across development, testing and operational teams, the Senior Engineer establishes consistent deployment patterns, infrastructure automation, observability capabilities and engineering standards that improve delivery quality, operational resilience and developer productivity.

This is a highly hands-on engineering role focused on platform enablement rather than infrastructure administration.

About the Team

The Equities Trading Technology team delivers trusted, highly resilient platforms supporting Australia's cash equities and options markets.

Working alongside Software Engineers, Principal Engineers, Product Owners, Architecture, Cyber Security and Production Assurance teams, the DevOps Lead enables modern engineering practices and platform capabilities that support ASX's strategic technology objectives.

Key Purpose

To establish and continuously improve DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering capabilities that:

• Accelerate software delivery through automation.
• Improve reliability and operational resilience.
• Reduce operational risk through standardised engineering practices.
• Enhance platform observability and operational insight.
• Enable engineering teams through reusable tooling and self-service capabilities.
• Support safe, controlled and auditable delivery of change.

What You'll Do

Platform Engineering Leadership

• 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.

CI/CD and Delivery Automation

• 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.

Infrastructure as Code

• 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.

Observability & Reliability Engineering

• 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.

DevSecOps Enablement

• 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.

Operational Excellence

• 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.

Accountabilities

• 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.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the criteria of this role.

If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at *******@asx.com.au.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.

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