Principal Database Automation Engineer

3 weeks ago

Council of the City of Sydney, Australia Westpac Group Full time

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Database Automation Engineer.

What’s the role?

As a Principal Database Automation Engineer within the Data Platform Service Practice Team, you will be a strategic leader responsible for shaping and driving the DevOps and SQL Infrastructure vision across multiple platforms and products. This role demands deep technical expertise, architectural foresight, and the ability to influence and mentor senior engineers while collaborating across business and technology domains.

You will lead initiatives that support client onboarding, maintenance, and review processes, and play a pivotal role in digitising the customer journey through scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure solutions.

What do I need?

- Cloud Platforms: Advanced experience with MS Azure (preferred) and/or AWS, including networking, security, and identity management.

- Infrastructure-as-Code: Mastery of tools such as Terraform, Ansible, ARM templates, and scripting languages (PowerShell, Ruby).

- DevOps Toolchains: Proven leadership in implementing and managing toolchains including Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Artifactory, Jira, and Chef.

- SQL Infrastructure: Deep knowledge of SQL/PostgreSQL platforms, including performance tuning, high availability, and disaster recovery.

- Containerisation: Expertise in OpenShift or Kubernetes platforms, including deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management.

- Enterprise Experience: Demonstrated success in large-scale enterprise environments with complex dependencies and regulatory requirements.

- Security & Compliance: Strong understanding of RBAC, Privilege Access Management, encryption, and secure provisioning 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.

Create your future today

To get started, simply click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button.

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.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find out more information and additional contact details by visiting the People with Disability and/or needing Accessibility Requirements page on our website.

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