What's the role?
The Principal DevOps Engineer plays a key role in building and operating Westpac's enterprise developer platforms, taking technical ownership of GitHub Enterprise and driving secure, scalable and automated CI/CD capabilities, while shaping platform standards, improving developer experience and mentoring engineers across the organisation.
* Own and operate the enterprise GitHub platform, ensuring it is secure, reliable and scalable for engineering teams
* Design and evolve standardised CI/CD patterns using GitHub Actions to enable fast, repeatable and secure software delivery
* Build and manage GitHub Runner capabilities, including environments, lifecycle management, upgrades and monitoring
* Develop platform automation using APIs and Infrastructure-as-Code to ensure consistent, auditable configurations at scale
* Partner with Security, Risk, Architecture and Engineering teams while mentoring others and driving technical direction across the platform
What do I need?
* Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale DevOps or CI/CD platforms, with strong hands‐on expertise in GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions and Runners, and CD tools such as Harness, Octopus Deploy and Argo CD
* Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, ideally Terraform or OpenTofu, with Terraform Enterprise experience desirable.
* Strong experience with automation and tooling development in Python, and with using APIs to manage platform configuration at scale.
* Strong understanding of container and runtime platforms, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
* Comfortable operating across Linux and Windows environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling.
* Desirable to have experience integrating SaaS platforms into regulated or risk-sensitive environments and improving developer experience through secure-by-default platform design.
* Passionate about modern engineering practices, strong delivery discipline and creating low-friction paths that help teams move faster without compromising quality.
* Ideally, you will be part of the wider technical community through mentoring, design leadership or contribution to engineering standards and practices.
Why join us?
* Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
* Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
* Tailored learning and development opportunities to help you grow your career within the bank.
* Lots of opportunities to 'give back' to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.
We're all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.
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