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FULL_TIME
5-10

Automation Engineer

3/1/2026

This role involves implementing Automation and DevSecOps activities for various ASX teams, ensuring CI/CD design and engineering processes adhere to standards and compliance models. Responsibilities include uplifting environment management through automation, assisting in accelerated delivery, and collaborating with test automation and release management teams.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

501-1,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
ASX is one of the world’s top ten exchanges. As a full-service exchange, we offer trading, clearing, settlement, market insights, connectivity, and depository services across all major asset classes including equities, derivatives, ETFs, options, and managed funds. With a total market capitalisation of around $1.5 trillion, ASX is home to some of the world’s leading resource, finance, and technology companies. Our $47 trillion interest rate derivatives market is the largest in Asia and among the biggest in the world. ASX’s network and data centre (The Australian Liquidity Centre) provides a world class financial infrastructure and access to Australia’s largest pools of liquidity.
About the Role

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.

This role will implement Automation and DevSecOps activities as required for ASX teams, Solution Engineering, QE&T and Infrastructure as well as working with ASX Partners, specifically partner resources.
You are a practitioner/team member of the Solution Engineering Capability Community of Practice (CoP)

     

Your responsibilities

  • Ensure CI/CD design and engineering processes are implemented against existing engineering standards, have well defined process controls, and deliver an overall compliance reporting model.

  • Be an active member of the Solution Engineering Community of Practice (CoP).

  • Collaborate with engineers across the group to uplift and streamline environment management by implementing automation capabilities such as CI/CD. 

  • Assist in implementation of accelerated delivery including the uplift and ongoing service management of the CI/CD tools related to environments, writing and integrating standardised configuration management scripts, automate environment provisioning workflows and working with engineering teams in supporting the modernisation strategy for the organisation. 

  • Collaborate with the test automation and release management teams for implementation of best practices into the CI/CD process. 

  • Ensuring deliverables are implemented in accordance with software development milestones within the programs and directed by the DevSecOps team. 

  • Communicate effectively across teams and assist the broad-based teams. 

  •  Be an active member of the Solution Engineering Community of Practice (CoP).

Your experience and qualifications

Must have

  • Cloud Engineering and/or DevSecOps experience.

  • Experience in delivering major programs of work in a complex, agile environment.

  • Worked with, and delivered on, enterprise CI/CD capabilities and tools, providing guidance on best practices and helping enable major programs to deliver business value.

  • 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 AWS, GCP and Virtual Environments.

  • 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), and Software as a Service (SaaS).

  • Deep experience of cloud infrastructure and DevSecOps automation.

  • Experience in working with cloud deployment and orchestration technologies at scale with strong knowledge of the fundamentals to include service discovery, deployment, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancing.

  • Knowledge of containerisation concepts and implementation considerations.

  • Experience with complex data structures and semi structured data (JSON, XML).

  • Experience with Design Governance, taking responsibility for the end-to-end software design process across a large program of work, collaborating with Architecture, Engineering, Developers, and Suppliers.

  • Curiosity and Compassion.

  • Understanding of Cloud Native frameworks and landscape.

  • Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, GitHub, Cloud Build, CodeBuild

  • Experience in building and working with Docker container-based services or other CRE.

Nice to have

  • Work experience in highly regulated environments with significant compliance and audit activities.

  • Working in a cross-functional, agile delivery team.

  • 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.

  • Comfortable presenting at Architecture and Design governance forums.

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 careers@asx.com.au.

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.

Key Skills
AutomationDevSecOpsCI/CDSolution EngineeringEnvironment ManagementConfiguration ManagementCloud EngineeringAgileCloud EnvironmentsIaaSPaaSSaaSContainerisationGitLabGitHubDocker
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