Technical Development Lead

About us

We have been awarded Australia's #1 Tech Best Great Place to Work in 2024 and we're Great Place to Work- Certified 2024! We have also been named a Global Winner of the 2024 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award!

Macquarie Cloud Services are the Australian specialists in cloud services for business and government. Locally owned and operated, with an industry-leading customer service model, we’re trusted by our customers to provide the services that enable their business success.

We have made it our challenge to make our people feel good and love the work they do. Because of this, our people are energised and motivated in their work. 

We believe that collaboration & team connection is key for success. This role will be based in Sydney with a blended working arrangement of 3 days in our CBD offices & the remaining working from home. #LI-Hybrid

The Opportunity

The Technical Development Lead provides hands-on technical leadership to the Online Systems and DevOps teams. It is not a people management role. The Tech Lead works with the Online Systems leadership team to establish a technical roadmap that addresses internal and external customer requirements, and then executes the roadmap.

Why Us?

• We have been awarded #1 Tech Best Great Place to Work in 2024.
• We're Great Place to Work Certified 2024.
• We have been named a Global Winner of the 2024 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award!
• We're the #1 Managed Services Cloud business in Australia.
• We have the highest Net Promoter Score on the ASX, the World's best customer experience & crowned in 2020 at the World Communications Awards.
• You’ll make an impact: Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers and action.
• We Invest in you: Accelerate your career through our learning and development opportunities - think Gallup strengths-based training, defined career pathways and fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group.

What you'll be doing

• Works in unison with the Online Systems leadership team to mutually agree, document and execute the technical strategy, evaluating and championing new technology to support underlying business objectives, measuring and iterating along the way.
• Builds relationships with the developers in the team, driving maturity. Provides technical coaching and guidance to team members.
• Aligns the team to software development and DevSecOps best practices, thereby increasing the quality and time to deployment of our Portals and APIs.
• Contributes to codebases: features, R&D and bugfixes as required.

Your required skills & experience

• Software Engineering or similar bachelor's degree.
• 10 years’ experience in relevant technical roles in the application development and automation space.
• 5+ years of Python software development experience.
• Demonstrable experience with TDD, unit and integration testing.
• CI/CD pipeline experience using a mainstream open-source or commercial platform.
• Containers.
• IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Chef or similar.
• Experience deploying to/leveraging a public cloud.
• Windows and Linux skills – you probably feel most comfortable in the terminal.
• A thorough understanding of the HTTP protocol, RESTful APIs & JSON representation.
• Communication, documentation and illustration skills.

Desirable experience & skills

• Hands-on experience in a Cloud Services, or telecommunications environment.
• Django, Flask.
• Vaults.
• PowerShell.
• Kubernetes.
• Microsoft Windows server and/or Linux system administration.
• VMware or another virtualisation platform.
• Network administration with switching, routing and firewalls or other network and security devices such as 3rd party load balancers.
• Software design and development in .NET, JAVA, JavaScript, XML.

If this excites you, apply now, we'd love to hear from you!