DevOps & Cloud Engineering Technical Lead

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we're all about making buying and selling a great experience. For over 25 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow. 

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces. We transform how people buy and sell across the globe. We discover new ideas and make them happen. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve – and we aren’t afraid to make big bets.

Our DevOps & Cloud team is the engine driving innovation and resilience across our digital platforms. With cloud-native solutions at our core, we empower the business with scalable, secure, and future-ready infrastructure—turning bold ideas into reliable realities.

Not something you’d expect from one of the country’s biggest tech companies, is it? 

We embrace a hybrid way of working – mixing working from home with the energy and connection that comes from being together in the office. We champion flexibility and have many policies, procedures and leave options to support flexible work

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace, a WORK180 endorsed employer for women and WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that’s you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave, six weeks paid gender transition leave. 

What you’ll do: 

We seek a hands-on tech lead to develop and improve our cloud and platform services. These platforms are crucial for enhancing developer experience and user engagement, contributing to business growth.

• Create proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate how technology can be leveraged.
• As an owner of our key platforms, lead the architecture and design of our software as well as the performing technical analysis of requirements for work item generation and estimation, you will drive the technical roadmap for DevOps and cloud .
• Engineer solutions to drive operational maturity and efficiencies. Use your AWS \ bash \ Terraform skills to express solutions to improve our existing and new automation requirements.
• This is tech-focused role where you will be Improving the resiliency of DevOps platforms through continuous improvements.
• Manage and own existing cloud networking solutions and maintain the exiting cloud network system.
• Provide on-call and after-hours support as required and actively participate in the Post incident review meetings.
• You will be an influencer and contributor within the squad. Using your technical expertise and in-depth knowledge of the ecosystem, you will be architecting and building an end-to-end digital customer experience.

What are we looking for? 

Critical to success in the role is the ability to operate in the liminal space between business, data and technical practice

• Extensive experience in AWS/cloud networking, including the design, implementation, and management of VPCs, VPC peering, and transit gateways.
• Experience managing AWS environments, including ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EC2, Cloudfront, and CloudWatch at scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize bot management, traffic routing, and security policies using AWS WAF, Datadome or similar tools.
• Experienced with CI/CD platforms like GitHub Actions and implementing pipelines for containerized applications. Created and maintained continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate testing, build, and release cycles.
• Ability to autonomously drive large platform upliftment projects with minimal oversight, demonstrated leadership in initiating and executing major projects from conception to completion independently, efficiently coordinated cross-functional teams, managed timelines, and delivered high-quality results on time and within budget.
• Understanding of microservices architecture and background in application development or operation support with solid knowledge of .NET and Docker is preferred.

A few other things we want to let you know about... 

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.