Principal Cloud Engineer - Clearing Risk

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.

Key purpose of the role

As the Principal Cloud Engineer Risk Platform you will provide direction and guidance and also take responsibility for technical solutions and engineering practices for the clearing risk platform.

As part of your role, you will help Mentor and drive the team in the use of engineering best practices to improve the efficiency, stability, availability, and monitoring of the system while ensuring quality of deliverables, in alignment with technical standards.

Your Team

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

Your responsibilities

• Design and implementation of a cloud solution within Markets technology
• Work closely with Architecture to ensure Cloud strategy and vision are realised.
• Ensure design and engineering processes are adhering to existing engineering standards, and deliver a reporting model on compliance.
• As part of the Solution Engineering Guild - lead delivery of technical documentation, such as best practices, standards and processes.
• Provide expert services on contemporary engineering practices (micro services, continuous delivery, multi-cloud, data engineering, DevSecOps).
• Be part of a cross-functional team planning, designing, creating, enhancing, and documenting new and existing system features in order to deliver agreed value to stakeholders.
• Collaborate in reviews of work with others as appropriate such that features meet specified functional and non-functional requirements.
• Collaborate with non-technical stakeholders to understand whether solutions meet their needs.

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

• Experience in delivering programs of work in a complex, agile environment
• Have lead end to end cloud implementation on a complex environment
• Demonstrated experience working in a Senior Cloud Engineering role in public, private and hybrid cloud environments.
• A strong understanding of cloud engineering principles underpinned by design and development experience with one or more cloud environments such GCP, AWS and VMware
• Experience with running multi cloud environments and a strong understanding of multitenancy and security implications
• Knowledge and experience with cloud concepts such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) , Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Understand enterprise networking and cloud native solutions
• Experience of cloud infrastructure automation
• Experience in Terraform
• Experienced in working with cloud deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with strong knowledge of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing. Knowledge of Containerisation
• Experienced with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML)
• Experienced with Design Governance, and can take responsibility for the end to end software design process across a large program of work, collaborating with Architecture, Engineering and Suppliers.
• Scripting Skills (Shell, Perl, Python)

Nice to have

• Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Architecture certifications on AWS or GCP
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GoCD, GitLab, Cloud Build, or Code Build.
• Experience building scalable systems and workloads on the cloud.
• Experience migrating workloads to the cloud.
• Proficient in Linux, Shell scripting, Gradle, Java 8+, and Spring Boot 2.7+
• Experience in building and working with Docker container-based services or other CRE.
• Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
• AWS Well Architected Framework

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.