Project description

We’re looking for a driven engineer who thrives on automating tasks that fail regularly. You’ll join a high-impact team in the Treasury domain, supporting a platform that underpins critical services for both Australian and global markets. The platform is constantly evolving to meet the needs of multiple business stakeholders, and your work will directly contribute to its resilience, scalability, and innovation.

The team combines engineering expertise with strong collaboration across business and operations. We lead initiatives in Engineering Governance, Continuous Delivery, and simplification, making this a great environment for someone who enjoys solving complex problems and driving meaningful change.

Responsibilities

1. Design and implement automation for production support activities, including alert triage and resolution flows.
2. Reduce testing cycle time from seven to three weeks through creative automation strategies.
3. Explore and implement deployment automation and streamline QRM-related alerts.
4. Build intuitive UIs for visualizing product and support status, if needed.
5. Partner with existing team members to reverse-engineer domain knowledge into reusable automation components.
6. Identify repetitive manual tasks and apply DevOps practices to eliminate them.

Skills

Must have

• Ab Initio Expertise: Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Ab Initio, including: Control > Center; Plans and scheduling; Graph development and execution; Business Rules Environment (BRE).
• Scripting Skills: 2 to 10 years of experience in at least one of the following: Python programming, PowerShell scripting, or similar.
• Automation Mindset: Demonstrated passion for continuous improvement and automation of repetitive or failure-prone processes.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills with a proactive approach to identifying root causes and implementing robust fixes.
• Communication: Ability to clearly document and communicate automation strategies and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

The role is very open-ended, and the engineer will have the ability to influence technology and architecture. Good experience in more of the relevant skills below will be highly regarded:

• Support Experience: Appreciation for production support environments, common failure patterns, and recovery strategies.
• DevOps & CI/CD Tools: Experience with one or more of: TeamCity, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, Octopus Deploy.
• Cloud & Containerisation: Familiarity with AWS EC2, Docker, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code.
• Microservices & API Development: Expertise in microservices architecture and RESTful API design.
• Programming Frameworks: Experience with ASP.NET Core and C#, or alternatively Java/Python.
• Monitoring & Alerting Tools: Experience with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack.
• Database Skills: Experience in database design and programming using MSSQL or Oracle, or similar.
• AI Exposure: Experience or interest in applying AI to business and technology processes.
• Security Awareness: Exposure to tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk.