# Principal Engineer - Cloud & Platform Engineering

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Engineer. What’s the role? Reporting to the Chief Engineer, Institutional Banking and Capital Solutions Technology, this Principal Engineer role will provide technical leadership and architectural governance to enable high-quality engineering outcomes at scale. Through clear technical decision-making, consistent engineering practices and proactive risk management, the role will help reduce delivery friction and rework, strengthen resilience and operability, and improve the effectiveness and autonomy of engineering squads. This role will be responsible for leading complex engineering design and technical decisions, reviewing critical designs and high-risk changes, and resolving cross-team technical dependencies. It will also develop reusable engineering patterns and guardrails, support technical debt prioritisation, coach Senior Engineers on secure and reliable engineering practices, and drive the adoption of automation, testing, observability, CI/CD and platform tooling. What do I need? 15+ years of experience across software engineering, architecture or platform engineering, including enterprise application modernisation and

- **Id**: 4058914
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/westpac-principal-engineer-cloud-platform-engineering>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Sydney, Australia
- **Countries**: AU
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T03:33:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T07:07:29Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3703
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Business & SME Lending

## Company

- **Id**: 1766325
- **Name**: Westpac
- **Domain**: westpac.com.au
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/westpac-com-au>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 14
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock AgentCore** — Optional: no
- **Bicep** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Australia** — Iso: AU; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T07:07:29Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 14
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T07:54:23Z

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