Senior Platform Engineer

Join our PropertyIQ team, we are passionate about leveraging cloud engineering practices to deliver superior services. Our dedication to quality and continuous improvement is the cornerstone of our culture. We are doing great things which will revolutionise how our customers interact with us and our products. 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? As a Senior Platform Engineer on our strata management platform, you will be instrumental in shaping the engineering foundations that every development team builds upon. You will own the design, security, and operation of our infrastructure, driving reliability and scalability through automation, robust configuration management, and the strategic use of cloud services. In this role, you will collaborate with a team of experts to stand up and automate environments end-to-end, build the tooling that makes our processes repeatable, and own the frameworks that ensure every release is trustworthy. From how we deploy and operate services to how we detect and respond to incidents, your work will directly contribute to our commitment to excellence and innovation in the strata services sector. You will be the engineer other teams rely on when something foundational needs to just work What You Offer Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Proven ability to drive ambiguous, cross-team technical initiatives end-to-end as a technical lead. You actively coach and mentor other senior engineers to elevate overall capability and architectural mastery, going far beyond standard pull request reviewsProduction Reliability, SLO Governance & Incident Management: Hands-on ownership of production platform health, ensuring high-availability environments that meet our 99.98% SLO targets. You will lead incident response, establish robust observability/alerting, and actively guide other engineering and product squads on reliability best practices.Deep AWS Platform Expertise: Deep, multi-region expertise in AWS at platform scale. You possess broad and deep mastery across a wide array of AWS native services—including serverless compute (Lambda), relational databases (Aurora RDS), enterprise security design (KMS/CMK, IAM), and complex networking (VPC, ALB, Route53)—coupled with the architectural judgment to make design trade-offs that hold up across dozens of highly active customer environments.Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Mastery: Track record owning Terraform/Terragrunt at a module-author level—designing, versioning, and maintaining reusable, semver-tagged modules consumed across environments, rather than just writing per-environment configs.AI-Assisted Engineering & Agent Development: Hands-on proficiency with AI tooling (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) and integrating AI-assisted workflows into the SDLC. Experience crafting custom system instructions, defining tool-calling schemas, and implementing custom model tool definitions to orchestrate DevOps agents and autonomous, agent-based tools.Next-Generation Cloud Networking: Experience designing secure transit routing, with the ability to help deliver on our upcoming network roadmap—including routing egress via AWS Transit Gateways, configuring AWS Network Firewalls, and managing complex VPC routing tables.Zero-Risk Security & Vulnerability Posture: Commitment to a zero-risk production environment by implementing robust vulnerability management, pipeline-gated compliance scanning, and endpoint protection.Modern CI/CD & Secure Delivery: Multi-platform pipeline expertise (spanning GitHub Actions and Bitbucket Pipelines with OIDC-federated AWS authentication) with a track record of continuously improving pipeline reliability and building automated security gates.Advanced Configuration Management: Advanced Puppet expertise, including owning a deep, multi-dimensional Hiera hierarchy and roles/profiles architecture serving per-customer configuration at scale without introducing fleet regressions.Systems Administration & Scripting: Strong Linux administration background (performance tuning, security hardening, multi-system diagnosis) combined with solid Python and Bash scripting to build tooling that other engineers rely on. 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 Benefits 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 yearUp to 5 additional service bonus leave days per yearUp 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 caregivers2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matchingUp to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leaveAccess to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinationsAccess to a wide range of salary packaging optionsAccess to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscriptionHybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on roleReimbursement for work from home equipment About Banking and Financial Services Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth. Inclusion at Macquarie We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance. We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.