DevOps Team Lead – Lead & Shape DevOps Capability

About the role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Team Lead to own and evolve our DevOps capability across production systems, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. Based in Sydney, you will work closely with engineering, infrastructure and security teams to drive reliability, scalability and operational excellence in a high‑performance trading environment.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of DevOps/Platform Engineers, fostering a high‑performance culture.
• Define and execute the DevOps strategy, technical roadmap and platform standards.
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling and automation frameworks.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code, platform standardisation and cloud strategy using Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS.
• Collaborate with software engineering, infrastructure and security teams to enhance software delivery and operational outcomes.
• Lead incident management, root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Improve system reliability, observability and operational maturity across production platforms.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE teams in enterprise or high‑availability environments.
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure, automation and modern DevOps methodologies.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines at scale.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Exposure to financial services, trading or low‑latency environments is a plus.

Required skills

• AWS (or other cloud platforms)
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Terraform and CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code)
• CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
• Linux operating systems
• Python, Bash scripting
• Monitoring and observability platforms

What we offer

• Opportunity to lead and shape DevOps capability within a high‑performing technology business.
• Strong engineering culture focused on innovation and operational excellence.
• High‑impact role working closely with engineering leadership.
• Competitive permanent salary package.