Sandstone Technology is a leading provider of loan origination, internet banking and mobile banking solutions to financial institutions globally. Headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales and with offices in Manila in the Philippines and Leeds in the UK, Sandstone is delivering world's best practice strategic banking solutions to financial institutions globally. Our business is built around our people and our shared vision of continuous innovation, building market leading products, and partnering with our valued customers to transform banking experiences.
The Role :
We are seeking a highly technical individual to assist in transforming and architecting our development and business processes to improve our competitive advantage in time-to-market, cost and time of product development and implementation.
Key Responsibilities :
- Maintain accurate documentation and provide regular updates to internal stakeholders.
- Ensure the operational efficiency, reliability, and security of the platform.
- Lead the design and implementation of solutions for client requirements.
- Advocate for DevOps/SRE best practices and promote operational efficiencies across the organization.
- Analyze and review technology processes, providing recommendations for improvement.
- Automate repetitive tasks and implement fit-for-purpose automation solutions.
- Meet and exceed service level agreements (SLAs) for Platform Services.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for product deployments.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for provisioning and managing cloud environments and deployments.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters using EKS and Rancher.
- Support and maintain ArgoCD for continuous delivery.
- Monitor and optimize platform performance using Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, and Site24x7.
- Manage incident response and alerting through PagerDuty.
- Ensure platform security and compliance using Trend Micro Workload Security.
- Utilize Jira for issue tracking and ServiceNow for IT service management.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call roster on a rotational basis to support critical platform operations.
- Establish and enforce DevOps/SRE standards, guidelines, and best practices
About You:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps/platform engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, S3, RDS, EC2).
- Proficiency with container technologies (e.g., Docker) and Linux/Unix systems.
- Experience with Kubernetes orchestration and Rancher for cluster management.
- Experience maintaining ArgoCD.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for cloud provisioning and deployment automation.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Dynatrace, Sumo Logic, Site24x7).
- Experience with incident management tools (PagerDuty).
- Knowledge of security solutions such as Trend Micro Workload Security.
- Familiarity with Jira and ServiceNow for workflow and service management.
- Knowledge of networking including routing, switching, IP addresses and subnets, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, etc.
- AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Professional) or equivalent is advantageous.
Desirable:
- Strong understanding of CI/CD processes.
- Exposure to other cloud platforms (Azure, GCP).
- Experience with Python or similar scripting languages.
- Familiarity with CloudFormation, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with build tools such as Jenkins.
- Knowledge of database management and optimization in cloud environments.
- Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining systems compliant with ISO 27001 or other information security frameworks such as SOC 2, NIST, or HIPAA.
Why Sandstone
- Career development planning and opportunities to achieve certifications such as SAFe, AWS
- Access to learning & development resources as well as a personal budget and allocated time off for additional training of your choice
- Flexibility and work/life balance
- Opportunities to work with the latest technologies such as cloud, AI/ML (depending on your interests)
- Fantastic team culture and social activities, weekly volleyball throughout the year (when possible)
- Fully stocked fridge and snack cupboards!
A bit about us
Before fintech was a thing, our founders were dreaming up new ways to transform banking, simplifying the customer journey and the employee experience.
29 years later Sandstone Technology is still leading the charge, innovating and evolving as the industry evolves. Our high client retention rate is our proudest achievement with 33 financial institutions across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the United Kingdom placing their trust in our solutions.
If you like the sound of this challenge and are interested in working with us, apply now with your up to date resume!
