Senior Java Engineer - 12 Month Max Term Contract

ASX: Powering Australia's Financial Markets

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.

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.

Your Responsibilities

• You are a practitioner/team member of the Solution Engineering Capability Community of Practice (CoP).
• Ensure CI/CD design and engineering processes adhere to 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.
• Become an SME of the overall toolsets/processes used by software engineers across the SDLC including source code management, development tools and engineering practices with the goal of continuous improvement in agility, quality & process/tooling maturity.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Infrastructure teams on driving automation in setup, configuration and the operation of environments across the stack from hardware, OS, virtualization, application servers, storage, database, networking, firewall, load balancers etc.
• Collaborate with the test automation and release management to embed best practices into the CI/CD process.
• Ensuring major software development milestones are aligned to environment strategy.
• Communicate effectively across teams and assist in motivating the broad-based team.
• Be an active member of the Solution Engineering Community of Practice (CoP).

Your Experience and Qualifications

Must Have

• 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 GCP, AWS and VMware.
• 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).
• Experience of cloud infrastructure 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.

Nice to Have

• Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Architecture certifications on AWS or GCP.
• Understanding of Cloud Native frameworks and landscape.
• Work experience in highly regulated environments with significant compliance and audit activities.
• Working in a cross-functional, agile delivery team.
• Experience working with Java8+.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GoCD, GitLab, Cloud Build, or Code Build.
• Experience in developing Data APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC).
• 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 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.