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Devops Lead - Cognizant

OpenTalentSydney, Sydney🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 14 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid DevOps Lead role offers significant opportunities to shape critical platform capabilities and drive innovation in a reputable company. You'll thrive here if you're a seasoned technical leader passionate about leading teams, implementing robust CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform stability across cloud environments. Take the next step in your career and apply to make a real impact!

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Sydney, Sydney, Australia
DockerMicroservicesShellAWSAzureBambooGitGitHub ActionsJenkinsKubernetesPython

Job Description

  • Lead the end-to-end design, development, enhancement, release, and support of Mesh platform capabilities supporting APIs, microservices, and integration services.
  • Provide technical leadership to engineers and developers, ensuring adherence to architecture standards, coding practices, security controls, quality expectations, and delivery timelines.
  • Design and implement scalable APIs, microservices, integration flows, automation scripts, and platform utilities using approved enterprise technology patterns.
  • Drive CI/CD implementation and improvements using tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, Artifactory, and related DevOps toolchains.
  • Support cloud-native platform operations across Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, API gateways, service discovery, and containerized runtime environments.
  • Lead incident resolution, production support, problem management, root cause analysis, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
  • Automate recurring operational activities using scripting languages such as Python, Shell, or equivalent automation frameworks to improve reliability and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with architects, product owners, business analysts, QA teams, security teams, release managers, and client stakeholders to deliver platform changes successfully.
  • Monitor platform health, performance, availability, capacity, and SLA compliance, and recommend improvements to strengthen platform stability.
  • Participate in design reviews, code reviews, release planning, deployment governance, and production readiness assessments.
  • Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, deployment guides, operational procedures, integration specifications, and knowledge articles.
  • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, support technical upskilling, and promote engineering best practices across the team.
  • 10+ years of overall IT experience with strong hands-on exposure to integration platforms, API/microservices engineering, DevOps, and cloud-based platform delivery.
  • 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, integration architecture, API development, middleware, or cloud-native application delivery.
  • 2+ years of experience in a lead engineer, platform lead, technical lead, or similar role managing technical delivery and guiding engineering teams.
  • Prior experience in banking or financial services domain is highly preferred, especially in digital banking, payments, integration platforms, or enterprise API ecosystems.
  • You can pursue innovative career tracks and opportunities here
  • You can enhance your professional development through education and dedicated training
  • We'll give you the skills you need to keep pace with the changing workplace while our compensation, benefits and wellness packages help you stay healthy and plan for the future.

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