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Cloud Lead Engineer

Additional office locations
Melbourne, Sydney
Job ID
22407
Date
25-Jun-2026
Permanent - Full time, Senior
Job category
BFS - Cloud Engineer
Join the Banking and Financial Services Cloud Technology team and be a part of a full lifecycle team building and maintaining automation tooling and creating industry leading distributed Kubernetes based platforms.

We are striving for 100% on cloud, with a massive focus on GCP and AWS. We pride ourselves on building automated, extensible and secure cloud capabilities underpinning our Digital Bank. We use innovative approaches to automation including extensive use of Hashicorp Vault, Kubernetes Operators, ArgoCD, in-house written Go Operators and GCP & AWS Cloud Platforms.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

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In this role, you will be providing technical leadership in architecture, design, development, testing and operations to deliver solutions incrementally. You will be responsible for influencing and mentoring other engineers in engineering best practices.

What you offer

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  • You have 2-5 years' experience with the Go programming language
  • You have 3+ years' experience with hyperscale cloud providers, preferably GCP, in enterprise environments
  • Strong experience in platform engineering, enabling cloud services for consumption by application teams
  • You have excellent communication skills, written and verbal, with a flair for ascertaining stakeholder requirements
  • Real world experience in supporting production applications
  • Experience with GitOps (ArgoCD) and declarative infrastructure as code (kustomize, helm, or terraform)
  • Familiar with secrets management platform or technology (example: Hashicorp Vault)

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What we offer

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At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

  • 1 wellbeing leave day per year
  • Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
  • Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
  • 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
  • Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
  • Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
  • Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
  • Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

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Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

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We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance. 


We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.

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