DevOps Engineer - Digital Client Portal

About the role

LGT Wealth Management is looking for a DevOps Engineer to support, maintain and continuously improve the digital client portal and its connected services at LGT Wealth Management Australia. Reporting to the Lead Software Specialist, you will join the Application Support team within the Platform Team and work with engineering, Cyber Security, Operations, delivery teams and vendors to resolve production issues, strengthen integrations and deliver sustainable improvements. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract combining Angular frontend engineering, production support and DevOps practices.

Key responsibilities

• Own the digital client portal's operation, including availability, performance, monitoring, maintenance, incident response and continuous improvement.
• Maintain and improve Angular applications, including component design, frontend standards, performance, browser compatibility and upgrades to Angular, Node.js and third-party dependencies.
• Diagnose browser, application and container issues using logs, traces and metrics, and implement lasting improvements.
• Maintain document logging, replication, reconciliation and recovery across Avaloq Core Platform (ACP), Avaloq Front Solution (AFS) and Avaloq Front Platform (AFP).
• Support portal APIs and integrations, resolving interface and data issues with engineering and platform teams.
• Work with Cyber Security on vulnerabilities, web application firewall policies, certificates, access controls and authentication, authorisation, federation and entitlements.
• Release changes safely through peer review, automated testing, version control and CI/CD, including regression testing, production verification and rollback readiness.
• Provide business-as-usual support to business users and Software Specialists, meeting service levels and escalating incidents.
• Automate client statement generation, validation, distribution and exception management with appropriate controls and auditability.
• Partner with QA on test coverage and non-production environments, maintain documentation in Confluence and manage work through Jira Service Management and Ivanti.
• Participate in rostered after-hours support for releases and priority incidents when required.

Required profile

• At least five years' experience supporting or developing customer-facing digital applications, web platforms or enterprise software, including business-critical production systems.
• Strong Angular experience, including frontend maintainability, dependency management, performance optimisation and automated unit, component and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with document generation, logging, replication, reconciliation or distribution; familiarity with Avaloq ACP, AFS and AFP is highly desirable.
• Practical Kubernetes or OpenShift knowledge and SQL skills; experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, deployment tooling and infrastructure as code.
• Exposure to GitLab, GitLab runners, Argo CD or Ansible would be advantageous.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills, sound application security knowledge, and experience in Agile and DevOps environments.
• Banking, wealth management or regulated financial-services experience, particularly in client reporting and document controls, is highly regarded.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Required skills

• Angular, Node.js, REST APIs, authentication protocols and integration patterns
• Kubernetes or OpenShift, SQL, Git, CI/CD, infrastructure as code
• Splunk, Prometheus or Grafana
• Advantageous: GitLab, Argo CD, Ansible, cloud or container certifications, ITIL or DevOps certifications