We're an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, we've empowered a new wave of investors. Today, we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspire investor confidence and unleash the investor in everyone.
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Technology team in Sydney.
As Stake continues to scale, the platform that powers our products becomes increasingly important. This team exists to build the foundations that allow engineers to move quickly, deploy confidently and operate reliable systems at scale. From cloud infrastructure and developer tooling to observability and automation, their work shapes the experience of every engineering team across the business.
You'll play a critical role in evolving Stake's platform strategy and helping product teams take greater ownership of the services they build. Working closely with engineers across the organisation, you'll design and operate the infrastructure, tooling and deployment workflows that support fast, reliable and secure software delivery.
This is a hands-on role with meaningful technical influence. You'll help define engineering standards, improve platform capabilities and create the systems that enable Stake to scale with confidence. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.
Within your first two years, you'll have:
- Built platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deploy and operate services with greater autonomy, reliability and speed
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Evolved Stake's cloud infrastructure into a scalable, resilient and cost-efficient platform capable of supporting continued business growth
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Established high-quality deployment workflows that make software releases faster, safer and more predictable
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Driven the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, creating reusable patterns and frameworks that improve consistency across environments
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Enhanced observability across the platform, giving teams greater visibility into performance, reliability and customer impact
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Strengthened Stake's operational maturity through improved incident management, reliability practices and service ownership
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Helped define technical standards and architectural approaches that improve security, scalability and maintainability
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Elevated engineering capability by mentoring others and fostering a culture of automation, ownership and continuous improvement
- You have deep experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on GCP, AWS or similar cloud platforms
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You're highly proficient with Kubernetes and enjoy solving complex infrastructure and platform challenges at scale
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You have strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and believe automation is the foundation of operational excellence
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You care deeply about developer experience and enjoy building tools and systems that help engineers move faster
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You bring strong systems thinking and can balance reliability, scalability, security and cost when making decisions
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You communicate clearly, collaborate effectively and enjoy sharing knowledge across teams
- Built or operated platforms centred around GKE and cloud-native technologies
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Implemented service mesh architectures in production environments
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Led large-scale CI/CD modernisation initiatives or platform transformation programs
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Worked with observability platforms such as Datadog, Kong or similar tooling
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Supported high-growth fintech, financial services or other highly regulated technology environments
You'll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks. Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake (https://hellostake.com/au/careers) program.
- Professional development allowance
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Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
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Childcare allowance
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Wellbeing support
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Annual leave swap days
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Discretionary performance bonus
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Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and if we think you'd be a good addition to our team, we'll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.
To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
