Create your best future and join Westpac as a Platform Engineer Integration – Managed File Transfer (MFT)
What’s the role?
As a Platform Engineer Integration, you will support and evolve the enterprise Managed File Transfer (MFT) platform, ensuring secure, reliable, and high‑performing file transfer services across distributed environments. You will design, deploy, and maintain key platform components such as IBM Sterling B2B Integrator and Secure Proxy, while managing protocols including SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS. The role also involves troubleshooting complex integration, connectivity, and authentication issues across Linux and Windows systems, as well as proactively monitoring performance to resolve incidents and optimise platform stability.
Additionally, you’ll collaborate closely with application, network, and security teams to deliver seamless integrations and ensure alignment with security and compliance standards. You will support platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle activities, while driving operational efficiency through automation using scripting such as bash or Python.
You will maintain platform components, manage secure transfer protocols, troubleshoot environment issues, monitor performance, support upgrades, automate processes, and maintain documentation and governance standards.
What do I need?
- Strong hands-on experience with IBM Sterling B2BI / Managed File Transfer (MFT) platforms.
- Solid understanding of networking concepts including TCP/IP, firewalls, NAT, and DNS.
- Proven experience with Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting for automation and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of security protocols including encryption, SSL/TLS, SSH, and certificate management.
- Experience troubleshooting complex cross-platform integration and connectivity issues.
- Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and logging tools for system performance and incident management.
- Exposure to modern platforms and tools such as Kubernetes/OpenShift, cloud environments (AWS), CI/CD pipelines, Control-M, or programming (Python/Ruby).
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
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