Platform DevOps Lead Engineer

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave days

Parental leave

Paid volunteer leave

Learning and development reimbursement

Hybrid working arrangements

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is looking for a DevOps leader to build and guide a high-performing team focused on developer experience and automation within Cyber Engineering. You will develop a secure and scalable platform that empowers engineering teams.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience with cloud-native platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and AI-driven automation practices, along with a commitment to security in platform capabilities. Macquarie promotes a workplace where diversity and inclusion thrive.

Qualifications

• Experience with building and leading teams in platform engineering.
• Proven track record of delivering secure, scalable platforms.
• Strong analytical skills for AI-driven solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead a high-performing team focusing on developer experience.
• Define and deliver a modern internal platform.
• Establish best practices for continuous integration and delivery.

Skills

Platform engineering strategy

Cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD pipelines design

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

AI-driven automation

Security-by-design

Tools

Kubernetes/EKS

Vault

IAM

Job description

Our DevOps team builds the pipelines, automation, and tooling that make shipping codes to production fast, safe, and a frictionless experience for our developers. Our team run the platform end-to-end, from CI/CD and deployment automation - improving developer experience while keeping a system all Macquarie staff rely on every day for identity management. We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

In this role you will build and lead a high-performing team responsible for developer experience and automation capabilities within Cyber Engineering. You will define and deliver a modern internal platform that enables secure, scalable, and resilient engineering across identity, security, and data platforms. You will lead a team of DevOps Engineers to drive platform-as-a-product thinking to improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and automation maturity.

What you offer

• Ability to contribute to defining and executing the platform engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with cyber and enterprise goals. Establish the internal developer platform vision and core capabilities. Drive platform-as-a-product mindset, treating engineering teams as customers. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of highly capable DevOps engineers.
• Experience designing and overseeing secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure and hybrid).
• Ability to design CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.), container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS), secrets and identity integration (Vault, IAM, etc.) to ensure resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns.
• Drive developer productivity by delivering golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service platforms, supported by standardised workflows, developer portals, and automation, and measured through DORA metrics, adoption, and feedback loops. Establish best practices across continuous integration and delivery.
• Introduce AI-driven automation across platform operations. Enable use cases such as AI-assisted troubleshooting, predictive incident detection, intelligent cost optimization. Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows responsibly with governance controls. Ensure human-in-the-loop decision frameworks for critical actions.
• Embed security-by-design into platform capabilities. Enforce policies for access control and identity integration, secrets management, compliance and auditability. Partner with cyber security teams to align with enterprise standards.

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.