What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer - Python position at Macquarie Global Services?
Shape the future of cyber defense technology. Join a highly collaborative Cyber Security Operations Centre Technology and Innovation team where you'll play a critical role in advancing the platforms, automation, and intelligence capabilities that help detect, investigate, and respond to evolving cyber threats. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of security engineering, platform strategy, and emerging technologies, helping drive innovation while influencing the future adoption of AI across a global security ecosystem.
We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.
What role will you play?
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You will join our Cyber Security Operations Centre Technology and Innovation team, where you will manage, enhance, and automate critical security platforms that support the detection, investigation, and containment of cyber threats. Through platform engineering, integration, and automation, you will help improve operational efficiency, resilience, and the effectiveness of security response capabilities.
You will develop and maintain security platform infrastructure, implement infrastructure-as-code solutions, and build automated processes that improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational performance. Working closely with security analysts, engineers, technology teams, and vendors, you will deliver improvements that strengthen cyber security operations while enabling greater agility across the organisation.
You will contribute to the evolution of our security technology strategy by helping assess and integrate emerging capabilities across security orchestration, threat intelligence, user behaviour analytics, and AI-driven solutions. By combining deep technical expertise with a collaborative mindset, you will help ensure our platforms remain effective, modern, and resilient against a constantly changing threat landscape.
You will also play a key role in supporting continuous delivery practices, maintaining platform health and performance, and delivering outcomes against challenging timelines while effectively managing stakeholder expectations.
While Macquarie offers hybrid working for many of our roles, this role does require 3 days a week in our advertised location.
What you offer
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- Proven experience engineering, integrating, automating, and supporting enterprise technology platforms, with a focus on reliability, scalability, performance, and operational resilience.
- Experience developing infrastructure-as-code solutions and automation capabilities that improve operational efficiency and platform stability.
- Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and implementing modern engineering practices that support secure and continuous delivery.
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Python, with the ability to solve complex technical challenges and drive innovation through automation.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical disciplines, influence outcomes, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.
What we offer
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At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that's rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include:
- 1 wellbeing leave day per year and a minimum of 25 days of annual leave
- 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of paid transition leave upon return to work and 6 weeks' paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
- Benefits and initiatives to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing such as medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account and dependent day care savings account; life insurance, disability, and other insurance plans; 401(k) and short/long term disability
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program, a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
- Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
- Recognition and service awards
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
- Reimbursement for work from home equipment
About Technology
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Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We're a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow's technology solutions.
Inclusion at Macquarie
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We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.
We provide reasonable accommodation to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an accommodation, please let us know during the application process.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or protected veteran status. Macquarie takes affirmative action in support of its policy to hire and advance in employment individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities