Job Description

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