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The Macquarie Cyber Engineering team brings exciting opportunities for engineers to innovate, design, build and maintain solutions. As part of Platform Engineering, we are responsible for the quality, automation, reliability, performance and efficiency of systems and services that drives user access management controls and operations. 

At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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We are looking for a Platform Engineering Lead to build and lead a high-performing team responsible for DevOps, QA, SRE, and AIOps capabilities within Cyber Engineering. You will define and deliver a modern internal platform that enables secure, scalable, and resilient engineering across identity, security, and data platforms. You will lead a team of 20+ Engineers and drive platform-as-a-product thinking to improve developer productivity, operational excellence, and automation maturity. 

What you offer

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• Ability to define and execute the platform engineering strategy and roadmap aligned with cyber and enterprise goals. Establish the internal developer platform vision and core capabilities. Drive platform-as-a-product mindset, treating engineering teams as customers. Lead, mentor, and grow a multi-disciplinary team (DevOps, QA, SRE, AI Ops)
• Experience designing and overseeing secure, scalable, cloud-native platforms (AWS/Azure + hybrid)
• Ability to design CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc.), container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS), secrets and identity integration (Vault, IAM, etc.) to ensure resilience, high availability, and disaster recovery patterns
• Drive developer productivity by delivering golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service platforms, supported by standardised workflows, developer portals, and automation, and measured through DORA metrics, adoption, and feedback loops. Establish best practices across continuous integration and delivery, test automation and quality engineering, reliability engineering and error budgets. Drive observability strategy (logs, metrics, traces), lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Establish best practices across continuous integration and delivery, test automation and quality engineering, reliability engineering and error budgets. Drive observability strategy (logs, metrics, traces), lead incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement
• Introduce AI-driven automation across platform operations. Enable use cases such as AI-assisted troubleshooting, predictive incident detection, intelligent cost optimization. Integrate LLMs and agentic workflows responsibly with governance controls. Ensure human-in-the-loop decision frameworks for critical actions
• Embed security-by-design into platform capabilities. Enforce policies for access control and identity integration, secrets management, compliance and auditability. Partner with cyber security teams to align with enterprise standards.

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 Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.