Platform Engineer
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Apply NowPlatform Engineer
Active / Open Until Filled
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Date posted
August 18, 2026
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Closing date
Not Disclosed (Open Until Filled)
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Location
Sydney
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Salary
$109,249 - $184,000 /year
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Career level
Mid Level
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Experience
3 – 5 Years
Description
Macquarie Group is currently accepting applications for the role of Platform Engineer, based out of their corporate offices in Sydney, Australia. This appointment offers an exceptional opportunity to join a globally recognized financial organization that combines entrepreneurial empowerment, disciplined risk governance, and a merit-based career trajectory.
Banking and Financial Services delivers personal banking, wealth management, and business financial products, leveraging digital innovation to provide superior client experiences. In this role, the successful candidate will work alongside seasoned industry professionals to optimize mission-critical processes, manage risk effectively, and deliver commercially impactful solutions across key markets.
Opportunity Overview & Quick Facts
Key Responsibilities & Operational Scope
- Own the engineering foundations that every other development team builds on—from how we deploy and operate our services, to how we detect and respond to problems, to the tooling that makes all of it repeatable.
- Execute and drive stand up and automate environments end-to-end, build the automation that moves us forward as we evolve our platform, and own the frameworks that keep every release trustworthy.
- Execute and drive be the engineer other teams rely on when something foundational needs to just work.
Candidate Profile & Required Qualifications
- Cloud Platform & Kubernetes Expertise: Strong hands-on experience managing and scaling cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and orchestrating containerized workloads utilizing Kubernetes (GKE).
- Platform Automation & Ownership: Proven capability to design, build, and maintain automation for standing up GCP and Kubernetes environments end-to-end, actively reducing manual toil and driving operational efficiency across development teams.
- CI/CD & Delivery Engineering: Hands-on expertise building and hardening secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD) to ensure rapid, reliable, and repeatable deployments of containerized services.
- Platform Reliability & Observability: Practical experience building robust monitoring, alerting, and logging into GCP/Kubernetes environments from the ground up, leading structured incident response, and driving continuous improvement in operational maturity.
- Migration & Data Automation: Experience designing and implementing automated tooling to streamline system and data migrations, ensuring legacy workloads are transitioned to modern containerized platforms with minimal risk and manual intervention.
- Integration Engineering: Strong background integrating core systems and platform components—including API gateways, service meshes, event-driven architectures, and messaging queues—to enable highly reliable, decoupled architectures.
- AI-Assisted Engineering: Comfort operating in an AI-assisted engineering environment, leveraging modern tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery speed while maintaining a strict focus on quality, security, and design standards.
- Collaborative Problem-Solving: Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous, multi-system problems and solve them systematically in close, cross-functional collaboration with the wider engineering organization.
What Macquarie Offers
- Market-Leading Rewards: Competitive base remuneration supplemented by performance-linked incentive programs.
- Flexible Work Frameworks: Modern hybrid working arrangements supporting professional productivity and personal balance.
- Professional Development: Clear internal mobility pathways, technical skill enhancement, and professional accreditation support.
- Comprehensive Wellbeing: Access to employee assistance programs, holistic healthcare coverage, and dedicated wellbeing initiatives.
- Global Network & Impact: Collaborative engagement with cross-border teams across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific regions.
Core Competencies & Key Technical Focus
Apply Directly on Macquarie Careers Portal
This position is actively accepting candidate submissions. Access the official Macquarie Group recruitment platform to review comprehensive operational criteria and lodge your formal application.
