Senior DevOps Engineer

Stake is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join us at our brand new Sydney CBD location within a hybrid working model!
We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.
At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.
Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way
About this role
As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Stake, you are a critical, hands-on contributor responsible for the execution of the platform strategy. Your role is essential in enabling autonomous product teams to own and deploy their services efficiently. You will design and build the shared platform, tools and CI/CD pipelines that accelerate release cycles and provide a smooth, reliable operational infrastructure. You will work closely with developers across engineering teams, acting as a subject matter expert in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation to build scalable applications and embed high-quality standards through efficient CI/CD processes.

Key deliverables

• Platform & Cloud Engineering: 
  • Design, build, and operate a GCP-native platform, with a strong focus on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
  • Implement and manage service mesh technologies to enable secure, observable, and resilient service-to-service communication.
  • Drive platform reliability, scalability, and cost optimisation across environments.
• CI/CD & Developer Enablement
  • Design and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.
  • Embed automated testing, security, and compliance checks into the software delivery lifecycle.
  • Improve developer experience by providing self-service tooling and paved paths for deployment.
  • Implement and manage secure access controls including Privileged Access Management (PAM) 
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation
  • Lead adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar) and configuration management practices.
  • Build reusable modules and frameworks to standardise infrastructure provisioning.
  • Eliminate manual processes through automation and continuous improvement.
• Observability, Reliability & Operations
  • Implement and evolve monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure high system reliability and visibility.
  • Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement of system resilience.
  • Define and track SLIs/SLOs in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Architecture & Technical Leadership
  • Review system designs and architecture proposals to ensure scalability, security, and operability.
  • Act as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices.
  • Mentor engineers and promote a culture of operational excellence and ownership.

About you

• Strong experience with GCP or AWS including GKE, networking, IAM, and cloud-native services.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience implementing or operating a service mesh 
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Config Connector).
• Experience with observability stacks (e.g. DataDog, Kong etc.).
• Strong understanding of microservices architecture, security, and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to drive automation and platform improvements at scale.

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!
Benefits of working at Stake

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 program. They include:

• Career relevant development and training with professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Sonder - healthcare, safety support and EAP for you and your immediate family
• Additional leave types (Swap days, Bear Days, TOIL, Compassionate, Sorry Business)
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus
• Employee Share Options scheme for senior leaders
• Stake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account
• Recognition awards and team celebrations

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand
So what happens next?
Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and you'll hear from us either way. We’re committed to responding to every applicant. 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.