Platform DevOps Lead Engineer

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 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 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. 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.