Senior Engineer – Practice Lead | Global Financial Services | Sydney

If you're a Principal or Lead Engineer in platform or DevOps, and you're tired of being the person holding everything together while everyone else goes home. This is worth reading.

A globally recognised financial services organisation is looking for someone to own its Telemetry and Analytics practice. That means platform and product ownership of enterprise-scale SIEM and threat intelligence platforms, a live and varied project pipeline, and a small, high-trust team that actually has its act together.

The person who held this role for the past two years told us it's the first job they've had in years where they weren't online every weekend dealing with something platform-related. The support infrastructure here is real. You're not carrying it alone.

What you'll be working on

There's a solid pipeline of technical work ahead. A credential management overhaul spanning source code, pipelines, and release infrastructure; a vendor platform migration; new platform delivery; and active POCs in flight. It's genuinely varied, and it's hands-on. You'll be designing, integrating, and developing platforms rather than babysitting them.

Day to day you'll be working across IaC, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and scripting. Building and maintaining the infrastructure that underpins security operations at enterprise scale. You'll work closely with a small, experienced team across Australia and the US, and interface with detection engineers, analysts, and senior stakeholders globally.

What this does for your career

The brand carries weight. Two years here, owning platforms at this scale, delivering complex projects, and operating within a world-class financial services environment is a credible and visible step toward a Director or Principal Architect role. The person before you used it exactly that way.

What you'll bring

A strong DevOps, platform, or release engineering background. Solid hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and Linux. Proficiency in Python or Shell. You've worked in an enterprise environment, financial services, insurance, banking, or similar scale and complexity. And you're fluent in governance and compliance without being slowed down by it.

You don't need a security specialism. If you've operated SIEM, log pipelines, or observability platforms from a platform engineering angle, that experience is relevant. You will grow your domain knowledge with this role.

Hit apply or send me a message and I'll get you the full brief.

Julien@theonset.com.au - 0406 158 832

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - $300k (base + super + bonus), Sydney - 2 Days WFH

You join the team.

You learn the systems. You find the problems. You write the docs.

You give the talk, but nobody listens.

3am pages. Same alert. Different week.

You know the fix. It's just not prioritised.

You're a Staff SRE. You've got the answers. You've got the experience.

You're just not being asked to use them.

Most experienced SREs reach a point where keeping systems alive stops being the challenge.

What's exhausting is watching the same reliability problems repeat, because nobody prioritises the work that would prevent them.

As the foundational Staff SRE here, it would be different.

You're not here to own incidents. You're here to eliminate the reasons they happen.

The hiring manager's view is that reliability has no shortage of good ideas, they're just rarely prioritised.

This role exists to change that.

You'll have genuine influence over OKRs, engineering standards, and how reliability is measured across an organisation of 1,500 engineers.

That's not a common thing to be offered.

This is their first Staff SRE hire.

That means you'll define what the role means inside one of Australia's largest engineering organisations.

The impact you need to reach Principal is here.

You'll also shape their Agentic SRE strategy. AI applied to incident detection, diagnosis, and remediation. Not a pilot. In production.

For engineers who want to understand where the discipline is heading over the next decade, joining now means building that experience rather than reading about it in someone else's case study.

If you've been doing strong Staff-level work but feel like you're spending more time firefighting than fixing things, then send me a message. 

julien@theonset.com.au | 0406 158 832

Principal Product Manager | Leading Global B2B SaaS Platform

Help define the future of a newly launched platform that could reshape how thousands of professional services firms run their businesses.

Why this role?

• Shape the long-term strategy, commercial model, and future direction of a newly launched global product ecosystem

• Own complex portfolio-level decisions spanning product strategy, monetisation, go-to-market, and customer growth.

• Partner directly with senior Product leadership to solve some of the biggest strategic questions facing the business over the next 3-5 years.

• Market-leading salary + LTI | Work from anywhere in Australia.

About the Business

This global SaaS business has spent the last few years bringing together multiple products into a single platform that supports thousands of professional services firms globally.

The platform is now established. The focus has shifted to its long-term direction, deciding which customer problems it should solve, where the business should invest, and how the broader ecosystem evolves over the next three to five years.

This role will play a key part in shaping those decisions.

About the Role

This newly created Principal Product Manager role has been established to help define the future direction of one of the company's most strategically important product ecosystems.

Reporting into senior Product leadership, you'll define the long-term strategy, vision, and commercial direction for a platform used by thousands of businesses globally.

The product already exists. The challenge now is determining how it evolves, where the business should invest, and how the wider portfolio comes together around a clear customer and commercial strategy.

You'll help define:

• Which customer problems and capabilities the platform should own.

• Where the business should invest, consolidate, or retire products.

• What should be built internally, acquired, or delivered through strategic partnerships.

• How the ecosystem should be positioned, packaged, and monetised.

• How AI and automation should shape the future customer experience.

• How the platform supports growth across Australia, the UK, and North America.

• How multiple products and teams come together to create a seamless customer experience.

You'll operate across the portfolio, bringing together customer insight, market understanding, commercial thinking, and product strategy to influence long-term investment decisions.

While you'll work closely with delivery teams, your primary focus will be helping the business decide where to play, what to prioritise, and why.

About You

We're looking for someone who thrives in ambiguity and enjoys solving large, complex product challenges.

You'll likely bring:

• Experience defining strategy for platform, ecosystem, marketplace, or SaaS products.

• Strong portfolio thinking with the ability to connect multiple products around a common vision.

• Commercial acumen across pricing, packaging, monetisation, investment, or growth strategy.

• Experience making build, buy, or partner decisions.

• The ability to connect customer problems, business objectives, and product investment decisions.

• A track record of turning complex, ambiguous opportunities into clear, executable product strategies.

• Strong product discovery, customer research, and market validation capabilities.

• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and align multiple teams around a shared direction.

Experience within accounting software, fintech, workflow software, professional services technology, or B2B SaaS environments will be highly regarded but is not essential.

What's on Offer

• The opportunity to define the future direction of a newly launched global platform.

• High-impact strategic role with direct influence on product investment and growth decisions.

• Complex portfolio-level product challenges rarely seen in the Australian market.

• Significant exposure to executive Product leadership.

• Flexible Australian location.

• A strong Product culture with a genuine focus on customer outcomes and long-term thinking.

• The opportunity to shape a platform used by thousands of businesses globally.

For more information, please contact Jacquie Nolan at jacquie@theonset.com.au.

JD - [TBC] Technical Business Analyst, Integration Delivery

• [TBC] Technical Business Analyst, Integration Delivery
  • About Ordermentum and the role
  • What you’ll do
  • Required experience and skills
  • What you get

Role

Engineering Team Lead

Overview
Are you a technically strong leader with a passion for improving systems, teams, and decision-making? We are seeking an experienced Engineering Team Lead to guide a team of 4–5 engineers in delivering high-traffic, customer-facing web experiences at scale. This is a unique opportunity to take ownership of a critical web platform, shape its technical direction, and drive meaningful improvements in performance, architecture, and engineering effectiveness.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands-on leadership position, balancing technical involvement with team development and strategic decision-making.

Responsibilities
As an Engineering Team Lead, you will:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 4–5 engineers.
• Own the technical direction of a high-traffic web platform.
• Improve Core Web Vitals, SEO, latency, and overall web performance.
• Drive better engineering velocity and remove technical blockers.
• Lead architecture and system design discussions.
• Enhance technical standards, code quality, and engineering practices.
• Manage technical debt and cross-team dependencies.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Design teams.
• Help the team make pragmatic technical trade-offs.
• Communicate technical risks, options, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications
To excel in this role, you should have:

• Proven experience as an Engineering Team Lead, Technical Lead, Lead Software Engineer, or hands-on Engineering Manager.
• Strong expertise in:
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Server-Side Rendering
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Web performance and scalability
  • High-traffic customer-facing platforms
  • System design and architecture
  • APIs and distributed services
  • Cloud platforms (AWS)
• Direct experience in people leadership and team development.
• A track record of partnering with Product and Design teams.

Additional experience with GraphQL, micro-frontends, modern application security, and AI coding tools is highly desirable.

We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate:

• Solving complex performance or scalability challenges.
• Leading impactful technical decisions.
• Improving engineering velocity and team effectiveness.
• Developing and mentoring engineers.
• Driving adoption of new technical approaches.
• Managing disagreement and resistance constructively.
• Balancing technical quality with product and commercial priorities.
• Explaining complex engineering problems clearly to senior stakeholders.
• Delivering measurable improvements, not just technical activity.

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead and shape a high-scale web platform.
• Work on meaningful technical challenges in performance, architecture, and scalability.
• Hybrid working environment based in Sydney.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Professional growth through leadership and technical challenges.

If you are a technically strong engineering leader who enjoys improving systems, teams, and decision-making, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today to take the next step in your career!

Senior .Net Engineer | Sydney | Azure Cloud SME

• 2-3 Days Office, 2-3 days WFH

• Extremely strong technology stack

• Yearly Bonus paid out

Join an Australian-grown business that’s known for its tech-driven culture and modern .NET stack. As a Senior .Net Engineer, you’ll take ownership of key projects shaping the next phase of the platform giving you the chance to drive the SDLC and deliver work that directly impacts thousands of customers.

Step in at a defining stage of innovation and expansion. You’ll help shape the next generation of a product that’s central to the company’s growth.

You will have autonomy and ownership of customer facing applications that make a genuine impact to the users experience. Helping you take more satisfaction from the impact of your work.

What’s in it for you:

• Work with an established team of highly experienced engineers and drive the full SDLC. 

• Be the Azure cloud SME with opertunity to grow you Azure and IaC skills

• Room to innovate - influence architecture, culture, and ways of working from day one.

• Work with the latest technology and contribute to the AI journey.

If you thrive on building scalable, complex systems, this role lets you take full ownership of hands-on engineering - this position is for you. You’ll write elegant C#/.NET code on Azure, architect robust solutions, and help turn ambitious ideas into tangible outcomes.

What you’ll bring:

• 8+ yrs software engineering experience in hands-on across backend, APIs, etc.

• Expert in C#/.NET, cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), database work, CI/CD pipelines.

• Product mindset, comfortable with uncertainty, experimentation, high output.

• Passion for building things that scale and delight users.

Make your mark on a platform that matters. Apply now or reach out to Karl directly at karl@theonset.com.au

Implementation Capability Lead

Build a function. Develop leaders. Shape how delivery scales.

This isn't a traditional Implementation Manager role.

We are looking for someone who wants to build and mature an implementation capability—not simply inherit a team and keep delivery running.

As the Implementation Capability Lead, you'll play a key role in shaping how the Professional Services function evolves. You'll lead a team of Implementation Consultants while driving the capability, governance and operational maturity that enable consistent, scalable customer delivery.

You'll partner closely with Delivery Managers and senior leadership to strengthen delivery capability, develop future leaders and create the operating rhythms that support a growing SaaS business.

What you'll be doing

You'll:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Implementation Consultants, building a high-performing and accountable culture.
• Improve delivery capability through better governance, standards, knowledge sharing and repeatable ways of working.
• Design and embed scalable delivery practices that improve consistency, quality and predictability across customer implementations.
• Drive workforce planning, utilisation and resource coordination across multiple customer engagements.
• Partner with Delivery Managers to improve delivery performance, planning and commercial outcomes.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives, including AI adoption, operational efficiencies and delivery maturity.
• Help shape the future direction of the Implementation function as the business continues to grow.

What we're looking for

We're looking for an experienced delivery leader who has progressed from implementation or consulting into broader capability leadership.

You'll likely bring experience from:

• Professional Services or consulting organisations.
• SaaS implementation or customer delivery environments.
• Technology or digital transformation businesses.
• Or another environment where you've successfully built delivery capability and led organisational change.

You'll have demonstrated experience:

• Leading implementation, consulting or delivery teams.
• Building and improving delivery capability—not simply managing an existing function.
• Introducing governance, operating models, delivery frameworks or repeatable ways of working.
• Developing leaders and coaching high-performing consulting or technical teams.
• Driving workforce planning, utilisation, delivery quality and operational performance.
• Influencing senior stakeholders and leading change across growing organisations.

This isn't a heavily hands-on technical role, but you'll have enough implementation or Professional Services experience to build credibility with delivery teams and understand the realities of complex customer implementations.

What will set you apart

The strongest candidates will demonstrate leadership maturity built through years of leading delivery organisations and improving how they operate.

You'll enjoy:

• Building capability rather than simply maintaining it.
• Creating clarity in fast-moving and evolving environments.
• Developing leaders, not just managing people.
• Driving organisational change through influence and collaboration.
• Balancing customer outcomes, operational excellence and commercial performance.

Why this opportunity?

This is an opportunity to have a lasting impact on how a growing SaaS business delivers for its customers.

You'll work alongside senior leadership to shape the future of the implementation function, influence how delivery scales and create an environment where consultants can consistently perform at their best.

If you're energised by building capability, improving organisations and developing high-performing teams, we'd love to hear from you.

Delivery Manager

Enterprise SaaS | Sydney CBD

Some delivery roles are about coordination.

This one is about ownership.

We’re partnering with a scaling B2B SaaS business in the insurance technology space that is looking for a commercially minded Delivery Manager to lead complex customer implementations and delivery programs across enterprise clients.

This role suits someone who performs best in evolving environments where priorities shift, expectations are high, and strong judgement matters.

Someone who can navigate ambiguity, proactively surface risks, balance competing demands, and build trust with customers through clear communication and follow-through — particularly when challenges arise.

What you’ll own

You'll lead the delivery of complex software implementation programs and customer engagements across multiple workstreams — balancing customer expectations, commercial realities, delivery risk, and internal priorities.

This includes:

• Owning customer delivery conversations from initiation through to execution, go-live, and operational handover
• Acting as the primary point of accountability for external customers throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Translating commercial commitments into realistic delivery outcomes
• Managing project financials, forecasts, budgets, invoicing, and delivery performance
• Leading project teams across delivery milestones, risks, dependencies, and escalation pathways
• Driving clear trade-off decisions across scope, timelines, and capacity
• Managing multiple concurrent customer engagements and balancing competing customer priorities
• Building trusted customer relationships at both operational and executive levels
• Supporting pre-sales activities including scoping, estimation, workshops, and proposals
• Helping evolve delivery capability, governance, and scalable delivery practices
• Creating structure and momentum in environments where not every process is already defined

You'll work closely across Delivery, Product, Sales, Engineering, and Leadership — often operating at the intersection of competing priorities and making the calls needed to keep delivery moving.

What we’re looking for

We're looking for Delivery Managers who have built their careers within software vendors, technology services businesses, implementation partners, or client-facing delivery environments where customer ownership, commercial accountability, and delivery complexity are part of the role.

You'll likely bring:

• A strong track record delivering complex software implementations, enterprise technology programs, or SaaS deployments
• Experience operating in multi-client environments where prioritisation, stakeholder management, and commercial decision-making are critical
• Customer-facing delivery leadership experience within a software vendor, SaaS, technology services, or implementation environment
• Strong commercial acumen with accountability for budgets, forecasts, margins, and delivery outcomes
• Experience navigating delivery under resource constraints, competing priorities, and shifting customer expectations
• Confidence managing difficult conversations, escalations, and expectation resets with senior stakeholders
• Experience building structure, governance, or delivery frameworks in evolving environments rather than relying solely on established processes
• The ability to think beyond individual projects and improve delivery systems, cadence, and scalability
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and mentoring delivery professionals
• Insurance industry exposure is beneficial but not essential

The type of person who succeeds here...

You're calm under pressure.

You ask hard questions early instead of smoothing things over.

You're comfortable holding customers — and internal stakeholders — accountable.

You know how to make decisions when information is incomplete and priorities are changing.

You understand that strong delivery is not just about process; it's about judgement, communication, commercial thinking, adaptability, and follow-through.

Most importantly, you want to shape how delivery operates in a growing business — not just inherit a mature environment and maintain it.

Why this opportunity

This is an opportunity to join a business where:

• Delivery maturity is genuinely being invested in
• Your judgement and leadership will shape how delivery evolves
• You'll have direct impact on customers and outcomes
• Leadership values resilience, collaboration, ownership, and accountability
• You'll work across multiple enterprise customers in a highly visible role
• There's significant opportunity to grow alongside the business

This is a business scaling rapidly. Not every process is fully formed, and priorities can shift quickly. Success comes from being comfortable creating order, making decisions, and maintaining momentum when ambiguity exists.

If you're looking for a role where you can lead from the front, own outcomes, manage complex customer relationships, and help scale delivery capability in a growing SaaS business — we'd love to speak with you.

Junior / Mid-level Embedded Software Engineer

Sydney | Hybrid | IoT

$90-130k + super

The Mission

Build the software behind a new generation of connected consumer products, from early proof of concept through to global mass production.

You’ll work across embedded systems, device connectivity, user interfaces and cloud-connected features, helping turn product ideas into reliable, intuitive and commercially successful hardware.

This is an opportunity to join a highly experienced engineering team early in your career, get exposure to the full product development lifecycle and learn from engineers who have built complex products at scale.

The Challenge

This isn’t a narrow firmware role. You’ll join a multidisciplinary product squad alongside electronics, mechanical, industrial design, quality and product development specialists, contributing to software across the complete device experience.

Depending on the product, that could include:

• Developing embedded software in C and C++

• Building software for microcontrollers and connected devices

• Contributing to React Native interfaces running on physical products

• Integrating device, mobile and cloud components

• Contributing to reusable software architectures across multiple product families

• Reading schematics and debugging across hardware and software boundaries

• Prototyping quickly during concept development

• Helping mature code from early prototypes through to production-quality software

• Supporting manufacturing, validation and occasional factory engagement

• Collaborating with local teams, overseas engineering partners and remote software groups

The engineering lifecycle runs for roughly two to three years, taking products from an initial hypothesis through proof of concept, commercial approval, pilot builds and mass production.

The Bar

You don’t need to arrive as the finished article. We’re much more interested in strong fundamentals, evidence that you can apply them to real engineering problems and an appetite to keep learning.

What you'll need

• A degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechatronics, Software Engineering or another relevant engineering discipline

• Some transferable, hands-on experience through an internship, university project, postgraduate work or early commercial experience involving firmware, embedded systems, electronics or connected hardware

• Strong programming fundamentals and practical problem-solving ability

• Some experience working with C and/or C++, whether commercially, academically or through personal projects

• A genuine interest in understanding how software and hardware interact

• The ability to move between different problems and technical areas as a product evolves

• An eagerness to learn, ask questions and get comfortable with unfamiliar technology

• Enough autonomy to investigate problems and make progress without needing every step mapped out

• A progressive mindset – you’re interested in better ways of doing things and willing to challenge your own thinking

• Clear communication and an ability to work alongside people from different engineering disciplines

Bonus points for

None of these are prerequisites, but exposure to any of the following would be useful:

• Embedded systems, microcontrollers, firmware or IoT devices

• Electronics, including reading schematics or debugging hardware/software interactions

• React, React Native or JavaScript

• Python

• Mobile development

• Cloud platforms or connected-device architectures

• Personal engineering projects where you’ve built, programmed or connected a physical product

• Experience taking something beyond the classroom and making it actually work in the real world

We’re deliberately keeping the industry background broad. Consumer electronics experience is great, but experience from robotics, medical devices, industrial IoT, university projects, internships or other hardware-led environments can translate just as well.

The Hire

You’re likely an early-career engineer who enjoys software but wants to work closer to the hardware.

You might be coming straight from university or postgraduate study, have completed a strong internship or placement, or have spent your first few years working in software, embedded systems, electronics or another adjacent engineering environment.

You’ll probably enjoy this role if you:

• Prefer building tangible products over working exclusively on digital platforms

• Like figuring out how things work rather than staying within one narrow technical lane

• Are comfortable switching context as products and priorities evolve

• Ask good questions when you don’t know the answer

• Enjoy learning from experienced engineers while still taking ownership of your own work

• Care about the full user experience, not just your individual codebase

• Want broad technical exposure while remaining hands-on

• Are excited by the idea of seeing something you helped build eventually sitting in someone’s home

This team values raw problem-solving ability, curiosity and potential over a perfect keyword match.

The "Why me?"

You’ll join an unusually experienced software group with significant principal-level capability across embedded systems, connected devices, user interfaces and cloud technologies.

For someone early in their career, that means genuine access to engineers who have built products at scale and an environment where you can develop across multiple layers of the stack rather than being boxed into one small area.

There are also several long-term career paths available:

• Develop into a deeply hands-on embedded or software engineer

• Progress toward senior and eventually principal engineering

• Build capability across embedded, IoT, UI and cloud systems

• Move toward technical leadership, architecture or engineering management as your career develops

The "Why this?"

• Work exclusively on new product development

• See your software move from concept to globally manufactured hardware

• Learn directly from a highly experienced engineering team

• Get exposure to the complete product development lifecycle early in your career

• Work across embedded software, IoT, connected interfaces and physical systems

• Contribute to products that combine software, electronics and mechanical engineering

• Build reusable platforms rather than repeatedly starting from scratch

• Join a growing, low-turnover engineering function

• Access annual incentives and a long-term equity-style reward

• Gain occasional exposure to international manufacturing operations

This is an opportunity to build software people can physically interact with, learn from people who have done it at scale, and get the kind of technical breadth that can be difficult to find early in your career.

Still reading? Get applying and let's talk.

A global enterprise is growing its Cyber Threat Detection & Response team.

This isn't a traditional SOC where you'll spend your day clearing queues or chasing false positives. The fundamentals are already well covered, allowing the team to focus on higher-value work.

You'll investigate sophisticated threats, improve detection capabilities, hunt for adversary activity, and work closely with engineering teams to strengthen security controls. Depending on your experience, you'll either focus on deep technical investigations or lead the coordination of cyber security incidents, with opportunities to develop across both areas over time.

Tier 1 monitoring has largely been removed from the model, with technology owners responsible for first-line monitoring. That allows this team to concentrate on complex investigations, incident response, threat hunting and continuously improving the organisation's defensive capability.

This is a team that wants to understand how attackers operate, improve detection logic, and build stronger relationships across engineering, infrastructure and security teams—not simply work through an endless stream of routine alerts.

What they're looking for

• Experience investigating security incidents within a SOC, Cyber Defence or Incident Response environment.
• Strong SIEM experience (Splunk or similar), including alert investigation, detection tuning or rule creation.
• Hands-on EDR experience, with the ability to investigate endpoint activity and understand attacker behaviour.
• Strong understanding of phishing investigations, including analysing email headers, links, attachments and indicators of compromise.
• Knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (MITRE ATT&CK).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work with both technical teams and business stakeholders.

Whether your background is more technical investigation or incident response coordination, you'll join a mature cyber security function focused on solving complex security problems rather than simply responding to alerts.

russell@theonset.com.au / 0438984265