DevOps Principal Engineer

Sydney, NSW, Australia

Job Description

What’s the role?

The Principal DevOps Engineer plays a key role in building and operating Westpac’s enterprise developer platforms, taking technical ownership of GitHub Enterprise and driving secure, scalable and automated CI/CD capabilities, while shaping platform standards, improving developer experience and mentoring engineers across the organisation.

• Own and operate the enterprise GitHub platform, ensuring it is secure, reliable and scalable for engineering teams
• Design and evolve standardised CI/CD patterns using GitHub Actions to enable fast, repeatable and secure software delivery
• Build and manage GitHub Runner capabilities, including environments, lifecycle management, upgrades and monitoring
• Develop platform automation using APIs and Infrastructure-as-Code to ensure consistent, auditable configurations at scale
• Partner with Security, Risk, Architecture and Engineering teams while mentoring others and driving technical direction across the platform

What do I need?

• Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale DevOps or CI/CD platforms, with strong hands-on expertise in GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions and Runners, and CD tools such as Harness, Octopus Deploy and Argo CD
• Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, ideally Terraform or OpenTofu, with Terraform Enterprise experience desirable.
• Strong experience with automation and tooling development in Python, and with using APIs to manage platform configuration at scale.
• Strong understanding of container and runtime platforms, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Comfortable operating across Linux and Windows environments, with strong troubleshooting skills and familiarity with observability and monitoring tooling.
• Desirable to have experience integrating SaaS platforms into regulated or risk-sensitive environments and improving developer experience through secure-by-default platform design.
• Passionate about modern engineering practices, strong delivery discipline and creating low-friction paths that help teams move faster without compromising quality.
• Ideally, you will be part of the wider technical community through mentoring, design leadership or contribution to engineering standards and practices.

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave.
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank.
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 67529

• Job Category Technology Engineering

• Posting Date 06/01/2026, 03:26 PM

• Apply Before 06/11/2026, 03:26 PM

• Job Schedule Full time

• Locations

  Sydney, NSW, Australia

• Brand Westpac Group

• Program Name Not applicable