DevOps Engineer

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

JOB LOCATION: Sydney, NSW

JOB DURATION: Till 30/06/2027

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a major technology initiative within the banking and financial services sector.

This role will focus on designing, implementing and supporting secure CI/CD pipelines and enterprise DevOps platforms, ensuring reliable, automated and controlled software delivery across business-critical environments.

Working across Azure DevOps Server, Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory and Xray, you will play a key role in platform configuration, automation, troubleshooting, migration and operational resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and support secure CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps Server, Jenkins, Artifactory, and Xray.
• Implement YAML pipelines, agent pools, service connections, deployment approvals, and reusable pipeline templates.
• Configure Artifactory repositories, permission targets, AD-group access, service accounts, Xray policies, and artifact lifecycle controls.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration validation, remediation, monitoring, backup, and operational reporting.
• Support artifact migration, integrity validation, repository standardization, and production/non-production segregation.
• Troubleshoot pipeline, agent, authentication, repository, database, network, and deployment issues.
• Support platform upgrades, patching, failover, disaster recovery, performance testing, production implementation, and hypercare.
• Produce technical designs, implementation runbooks, rollback procedures, test evidence, and operational documentation.

Required Skills

• 8+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in DevOps or CI/CD engineering.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps Server, Jenkins, YAML pipelines, Git, PowerShell, Python, or shell scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge of JFrog Artifactory, Xray, repositories, permissions, service accounts, artifact promotion, and migration.
• Experience with Windows/Linux servers, SQL Server/PostgreSQL, networking, certificates, secrets, monitoring, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
• Good understanding of DevSecOps, RBAC, least privilege, segregation of duties, vulnerability scanning, and audit controls.
• Experience with high availability, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, failover/failback, and production support.
• Experience supporting banking or payments platforms, with awareness of transaction-processing peaks, settlement cycles, reconciliation schedules, cut-off windows, and high-availability expectations.
• Ability to plan CI/CD changes, upgrades, and recovery activities around business-critical payment operations while minimizing service and release disruption.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Maven, NuGet, npm, Docker, REST APIs, infrastructure automation, and observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Exposure to regulated financial-services environments and collaboration with security, infrastructure, architecture, testing, and vendor teams.

The Opportunity An excellent opportunity for an experienced DevOps professional to contribute to a critical technology program, strengthening enterprise CI/CD capabilities, platform security and operational resilience within a banking environment.

Please submit your current resume to apply. If you'd like a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Bidisha Swayamprava on Bidisha.Swayamprava@davidsonwp.com, quoting reference JN -112026-44659. To learn more about Davidson, visit davidsonwp.com.