Sr. Data Operations Engineer - Platform

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. 

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The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud of the diversity of our organisation and the culture of inclusion that all our people help to build every day. Our employee-led groups are known for celebrating cultural and religious events, championing LGBTIQ+ inclusion (recently achieving AWEI Bronze), inspiring giving and volunteering, promoting gender equality, and wellbeing.  We are an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality (WGEA) and a member of the Champions of Change Coalition for the advancement of gender equality in Australia. 

As the Sr. Data Operations Engineer, you will run & maintain scalable & robust data platforms for the Integration Platform team. This includes the design, build, & maintenance of real-time data streaming, distribution and secure file transfer platforms like Confluent Platform, CrushFTP etc.

This is a hands-on engineering and operations role that ensures the high availability, resilience and security of our real-time data platforms,

This includes building automation for provisioning, monitoring and scaling the platforms using AWS Services (EC2, S3, EKS, IAM etc.) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, GitLab.

The operations aspect of the role will cover incident response, including root cause analysis and resolution.

What you’ll do:

• Deploy, operate and manage data streaming and distribution platforms – Confluent Platform, CrushFTP in a hybrid environment consisting of a mix of on-prem & cloud environments.
• Perform day-to-day platform operations like upgrades, scaling, patching & monitoring via CI/CD pipelines.
• Remediate aged asset and security risks by migration of ASX data distribution platforms to new architecture.
• Build out standard operating procedures, fulfil service requests, resolve incidents and analyse problems.
• Build & maintain DevOps pipelines & practices to streamline the development, testing, and deployment processes of the Integration Platform
• Work with the wider Data & Integration team and other cross-functional teams to operate, manage & maintain ASX’s Data platforms.
• Configure, deploy and manage observability components for operational reporting and capacity management of ASX’s data platforms using tools like OpenTelemetry, ServiceNow Observability, Grafana, ELK etc.
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders on updates, challenges & solutions.
• Work closely with the development and support teams to effectively support, enhance and maintain technical solutions.
• Adhere to change management and other operational policies.
• Participate in intraday and after-hours support arrangements.

What you’ve done:

• Successfully deployed and operated data platforms in a Production environment.
• Have experience in building, deploying and managing services in a Cloud environment using DevOps tooling.
• Have experience as a platform engineer with Unix, Windows knowledge and scripting using Shell, Perl, PowerShell, Python etc.
• Excellent technical & problem solving skills.
• Proven record of delivering technical solutions that meet set requirements.
• Operated in, or developed reasonable understanding of, finance services.
• Exposure to enterprise management tools.

And if you’ve got some of this, even better:

• Experience working with TIBCO technologies like EMS (Enterprise Messaging Service), BusinessWorks.
• Experience working in a hybrid environment with a mix of Cloud and On-Prem services
• ServiceNow/OpenTelemetry/Grafana/Telegraf/InfluxDB/ELK for monitoring & dash-boarding.
• Exposure to API Gateway tools like Apigee.
• Agile experience.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with Databases like MS SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle.
• Familiarity as a user with automated service desk, incident, problem and change management tools.
• Familiarity with Automated Testing Tools.

What you need to enjoy and be good at for this role:

• Innovative thinker – Brings forward ideas that will automate repeatable tasks to reduce work effort and ensure quality deliverables.
• Quick and effective learner.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Time management skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks at any one time.
• Flexibility and desire to learn new technologies.
• Desire to build on existing skills base.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks completed as part of the on-boarding process.