Senior Engineer

See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!

At Iress, we make things happen

We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 2,000 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, France, New Zealand and Asia.

Build your career at Iress!
 

The role is responsible for building and supporting the development of delivery teams at Iress while ensuring the experience is frictionless by providing core services that enable Iress engineers to build and deploy software with ease.

Ensures engineers are equipped with the right infrastructure, consistent processes and environment that facilitates getting work done with ease. This includes helping to find ways to automate or eliminate the toil engineering teams face, helping to standardise services and integrations and find solutions to common problems.

Some of the awesome things you’ll be involved with:

• Support the transformation and modernisation of development practices across Iress, identifying, trialing and / or building new offerings for Iress

• Provide support for the platforms and integrations we own. Takes initiative in troubleshooting and resolve issues quickly and effectively

• Advocate for concerns of our Engineers, ensuring we understand each team's needs and are able to prioritise them appropriately

• Foster and grow strong working relationships with the wider technology group

• Proactively seek feedback from others to make informed contributions to team discussions on the teams' roadmap, architecture, and strategy

• Effectively manages own work, whether assigned or taken. Ensures dependencies, issues or risks on other teams are known and owns remediation of such

 What you will bring:

• A strong programming background and experience in Python is preferred

• Experienced in risks, issues and operational requirements of using third-party solutions as well as internally developed technology

• Experience in several software related technical specialisations, such as automation, security and observability, with a deep knowledge in CI/CD systems, build tools, and artifact management systems

• Experience implementing or creating fully automated, end to end build and deployment pipelines, through the use of tools such as BuildKite, TeamCity, Jenkins, or GoCD

• Keen 'DevOps' focus and experience building and deploying infrastructure with cloud deployment technologies while applying effective security measures

• Expert knowledge of modern software technology including cloud services, consumer trends in technology and engineering principles and practices - leads, drives and ensures team automates through the implementation of solutions “as-code

• Will test the status quo and enjoys thinking about and implementing innovative ways to solve problems - and in doing this, is not afraid to fail

Why work with us?
 

• 8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends

• Hybrid working

• Generous cash bonus for every successful referral 

• Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school

• Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work

• 3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives

• Discounted health insurance premiums

• Access to learning and development programs through Udemy

Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated. 

Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you! 

We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace. 

For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website - https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/

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Time TypeFull time