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ASX is hiring a DevOps Engineer for a 12 month daily rate contract, onsite in Sydney, to advance its modernisation agenda with DevSecOps and observability across AWS multi-cloud. You’ll deliver major programs in agile teams, design and run CI/CD pipelines, own end-to-end architecture, and lead documentation and governance while mentoring juniors. The role emphasizes strong collaboration with architecture, asset owners and SMEs to ensure reliable, compliant financial-market infrastructure. For a strong application, tailor your CV to demonstrate enterprise CI/CD, observability tools (DataDog, Dynatrace, ITRS/Geneos, CloudWatch), cloud and containerisation expertise, and experience in regulated settings. Also highlight communication, stakeholder engagement, and ability to work in Australia, with flexibility options and readiness for background checks.

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. 

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Bring your exceptional cloud and DevSecOps experience and contribute to ASXs technology modernisation agenda. You will design and develop enterprise technology solutions working with existing teams to ensure best-in-class engineering principles are applied to deliver exceptional outcomes for ASX’s customers.

Your Team

​​The Markets Technology team combines technical expertise, innovative problem-solving to design, deploy and implement effective solutions to support the Trading and Clearing businesses within the ASX. 

You will be working closely with other technical, Testing, Architecture and our Lines of Business accelerating the Design and Implementation of modern DevSecOps and Observability solutions leveraging AWS.

Your responsibilities

• Provide expert services on contemporary engineering practices including observability, continuous delivery, continuous integration, multi-cloud usage, and DevSecOps 
• Ensure CI/CD design and engineering processes adhere to existing engineering standards, have well defined process controls, and deliver an overall compliance reporting model.  
• Be part of a cross-functional team planning, designing, creating, enhancing, and documenting new and existing system features to deliver agreed value to stakeholders. 
• Lead delivery of technical documentation, adherence to best practices, and standard application of processes and controls. 
• Own your career development path, guide junior team members along their corporate journey 
• Identify, engage and influence stakeholders, including architecture disciplines, asset owners, delivery owner, business stakeholders and SMEs to ensure architecture is optimal, and has the greatest chance of success
• Effectively challenge business leaders to obtain the best technology solutions and fit with our Technology strategy
• Design to Run by ensuring solutions support the operational reliability requirements of critical financial markets infrastructure.

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

• Experience in delivering major programs of work in a complex, agile environment. 
• Worked with, and delivered on, enterprise CI/CD capabilities and tools, providing guidance on best practices and helping enable major programs to deliver business value. 
• Experience designing, building and testing observability solutions (eg. DataDog, DynaTrace, ITRS/Geneos, CloudWatch) with demonstrated experience implementing observability for a major core platform.
• A strong understanding of software engineering principles underpinned by design and development experience on AWS. 
• Knowledge and experience with cloud concepts such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS)  
• Experience of cloud infrastructure automation  
• Knowledge of containerisation concepts and implementation considerations 
• Experience with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML) 
• Experience with Design Governance, taking responsibility for the end-to-end software design process across a large program of work, collaborating with Architecture, Engineering, Developers, and Suppliers.  
• Ability to collaborate constructively and respectively across cross-functional disciplines to achieve product outcomes.
• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent IT discipline.

Nice to have

• Work experience in highly regulated environments with significant compliance and audit activities 
• Experience in developing Data APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC) 
• Experience in building and working with Docker container-based services  
• Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.  
• Comfortable presenting at Architecture and Design governance forums.  

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.

If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at [email protected].

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.