We are on the lookout for a competitive Engineer to join our growing team at Westpac in Sydney.
Growing your career as a Full Time Engineer is an awesome chance to develop productive skills.
If you are strong in communication, planning and have the right drive for the job, then apply for the position of Engineer at Westpac today!

- Be part of a world class team in Sydney
- Flexible working arrangements
- Permanent Opportunity

The Financial Markets Technology Team provides trading and risk management capabilities across the FX and Debt Markets product set. This capability applies across the bank's customer base, 7 x 24 hours a day, with presence in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, London and New York. A strategic approach to improving throughput with DevOps, SRE, Microservices and Agile Methodologies is now underway. The DevOps team is looking to expand our engineering capabilities with our, Kubernetes Microservices Cluster, Kafka Messaging Bus and Monitoring tools and improve our internal agile capability. This role would suit a candidate who would like a role that mixes technical and non-technical delivery, or someone with Scrum management experience who wishes to retrain into a technical delivery role.

How will I help?

The purpose of this role is to act as our teams Scrum Master and enhance our overall DevOps capability. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with other senior devops engineers and work closely with the local support desks and London support desks to ensure production stability during trading hours. The Scrum Master component is expected to be approx. 50% of daily workload with the balance spend on technical deliverable tasks.

The main responsibilities of the role are:

- Scrum Master across DevOps Agile Release Train
- Improvements to the Kubernetes, Kafka and ELK solutions with automation, monitoring with DevOps and Service Reliability Engineering methodologies.




- Working with developers and business SMEs on Kafka Schema standards
- Develop extensions and pipeline automation to the Microservices Platform to expand its capabilities.
- Assisting with software deployment into the ecosystem

What's in it for me?

You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to create better futures together. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.

What do I need?

- 2+ Years technology experience. Financial / Banking or Telco experience preferred.
- 2+ Years Scrum Master experience
- Possess the attention to detail, with the quality of documentation.
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good interpersonal skills to deal with business, internal resources and vendor's representatives.
- Ability to work under minimal supervision.

Desirable Technical Skills could include:
- Experience with configuration of monitoring tools Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
- Kubernetes and Containerisation
- Some Linux Administration Sills (RHEL / Centos)
- Linux Scripting / Ansible
- Open-Source Database tools (MySQL/PostGres)
- Atlassian development tools (Bamboo, JIRA, Confluence, BitBucket) or equivalent CI/CD tools
- Knowledge of system and network architecture design
- Code management and branching with GIT
- Has worked with and has an appreciation of:
- Agile Software development principles and methodologies.
- Software automation





Education:
- Good academic background in technology, engineering or statistical/mathematical analysis is desirable.
- Tertiary education (or close to completion)

What's it like to work there?

As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth and insurance benefits in the market.

We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to have created a culture and work environment that values diversity and flexibility - and champions inclusion.

How do I Apply?

Start here. Just click on the APPLY button.

As part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, this role is open to experienced candidates seeking a discussion around workplace flexibility. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply.

Do you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process?

At Westpac we are committed to providing a supportive culture and creating inclusive and accessible workplaces, branches, products and services for our customers, employees, and community.

We can provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability and/or neurodiversity. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process at any stage, please call View phone number on efinancialcareers.com Option 1.2 or email View email address on efinancialcareers.com

Benefits of working as a Engineer in Sydney:

● Learning opportunities
● Company offers career progression opportunities
● Attractive package

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