Senior Platform/DevOps Architect

XPT Software Australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia in Sydney seeks a Senior Platform/DevOps Architect to own the target platform, designing the GitHub Enterprise Cloud landing zone and reusable workflow library that standardises migrations. You will define GHEC foundations, author golden-path workflows, plan self-hosted runners, integrate GHAS, Snyk, Sonar, Vault and Artifactory, and ensure drift-free, scalable pipelines.

Work closely with client security teams, convert Jenkins pipelines to Actions standards, and lead

Qualifications

• 12+ years platform/DevOps engineering.
• 4+ years deep GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, composite actions, self-hosted runners).
• Expert Jenkins internals: declarative and scripted pipelines, shared libraries, multibranch, trigger graphs — and Bitbucket Server administration.
• Enterprise CI/CD architecture: promotion models, environment strategy, secrets management, policy-as-code.
• GHAS or equivalent AppSec tooling integration; IaC (Terraform) for platform provisioning.
• Strong written design skills — ADRs, standards, runbooks that survive handover.

Responsibilities

• Design the GHEC foundation: org/repo topology, SSO/SCIM identity integration, Rulesets, branch protection, CODEOWNERS strategy, and marketplace/actions allowlist governance.
• Author and version the golden-path reusable GitHub Actions workflows per archetype, consumed by reference with drift detection.
• Design the self-hosted runner topology (residency-aware) and integrate enterprise tooling: GHAS, Snyk/Sonar, Vault/CyberArk, Artifactory.
• Define the Jenkins→Actions conversion standards: secrets re-binding, shared-library equivalence, trigger mapping, artefact handling.
• Act as design authority on bespoke long-tail pipelines and review agent-generated PRs for architectural soundness.
• Partner with client platform/security teams; prepare the platform handover to client BAU.

Skills

GitHub Actions

Runners at scale

Jenkins

CI/CD Architecture

AppSec Integration

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Bitbucket Server

Snyk

SonarQube

Vault

Job description

Senior Platform/DevOps Architect

Job description:

Senior Platform/DevOps Architect

Role summary:

Technical owner of the target platform. Designs and builds the GitHub Enterprise Cloud landing zone and the golden-path reusable workflow library that every migrated repository consumes — the standardisation layer the whole migration lands on.

Key Responsibilities

• Design the GHEC foundation: org/repo topology, SSO/SCIM identity integration, Rulesets, branch protection, CODEOWNERS strategy, and marketplace/actions allowlist governance.
• Author and version the golden-path reusable GitHub Actions workflows per archetype (Java/Maven, Node/TS, Python, container, Terraform, etc.), consumed by reference (uses: org/repo@version) — never copied — with drift detection.
• Design the self-hosted runner topology (residency-aware, Azure/AWS network routes) and integrate enterprise tooling: GHAS (secret/code scanning), Snyk/Sonar-class scanners, Vault/CyberArk, Artifactory.
• Define the Jenkins→Actions conversion standards the AI agents implement: secrets re-binding, shared-library equivalence, trigger mapping, artefact handling (including Git LFS / artefact-store strategy for large in-repo binaries).
• Act as design authority on the bespoke long-tail — the complex pipelines agents can't fully convert — and review agent-generated PRs for architectural soundness.
• Partner with client platform/security teams; prepare the platform handover to client BAU.

Required Skills & Experience

• 12+ years platform/DevOps engineering; 4+ years deep GitHub Actions (reusable workflows, composite actions, self-hosted runners at scale).
• Expert Jenkins internals: declarative and scripted pipelines, shared libraries, multibranch, trigger graphs — and Bitbucket Server administration.
• Enterprise CI/CD architecture: promotion models, environment strategy, secrets management, policy-as-code.
• GHAS or equivalent AppSec tooling integration; IaC (Terraform) for platform provisioning.
• Strong written design skills — ADRs, standards, runbooks that survive handover.

Desirable:

GEI migration experience; Kubernetes; APRA-regulated environment exposure; contribution to internal developer platforms / golden-path programmes.