About the job

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description

Lead a team of Engineers responsible for building internal platforms, tools and automation for Qantas

Technical People leadership and strategy

Permanent role based at Qantas Head Office, Mascot, Sydney

At Qantas, we represent Australia to the world. Our diverse country is known for its unique spirit, mateship, and a can-do attitude. Together we’re strong and resilient, and we work hard to make sure we’re always at our best.

Technology is a big part of how we continue to pioneer our way forward. With eyes on the future, our IT team harness technology on a global scale and tailor local solutions for each of our ports. Together we’ll show you it’s possible to make an impact, and to never underestimate what you’re capable of achieving.

The Senior Manager Technology, Developer Experience leads the team responsible for building the internal platforms, tools and automation that empower developers to deliver high-quality software quickly, safely and with minimal friction.

This role treats developers as customers and is accountable for improving every part of the software delivery lifecycle, from local development environments through to deployment pipelines, runtime container platforms, CI/CD tooling, GitOps processes, secrets management, and internal developer portals.

You will work closely with Engineering, Platform Ops, SRE, SecOps and Architecture to ensure developers have a seamless, consistent and highly productive experience across the organisation.

Responsibilities Include

• Lead the design, governance and standardisation of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices across all engineering teams.
• Own the developer‑facing container platform experience (ECS/EKS), driving secure, reliable and self‑service consumption.
• Own core developer platforms and tooling, including artifact repositories, secrets management, and version control standards.
• Own the Akamai (CDN) platform, embedding automation and infrastructure‑as‑code into CDN configuration and change management.
• Build and maintain developer self‑service platforms (e.g. Backstage) for access to services, environments, documentation and delivery workflows.
• Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers, and drive engineering culture improvements focused on automation, self‑service and developer empathy.

You’ll Have

• Significant experience working in Cloud Technology, from large enterprise environments or equivalent organisations.
• Strong demonstrated Technical People leadership experience
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Developer roles
• Strong demonstrated Akamai and container platform skills
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience managing artifact repositories (Nexus, ECR) and build pipelines.
• Strong background in secrets management, identity, access control and secure pipeline design.
• Proven experience improving SDLC efficiency, lead time, deployment frequency and release quality.
• Strong engineering leadership skills, including coaching, governance and stakeholder management.
• Product mindset, ability to gather feedback, shape roadmaps, and deliver impactful internal tools.
• Excellent communication and ability to partner with engineering, security and operations teams.

• Lead the design, governance and standardisation of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices across all engineering teams.
• Own the developer‑facing container platform experience (ECS/EKS), driving secure, reliable and self‑service consumption.
• Own core developer platforms and tooling, including artifact repositories, secrets management, and version control standards.
• Own the Akamai (CDN) platform, embedding automation and infrastructure‑as‑code into CDN configuration and change management.
• Build and maintain developer self‑service platforms (e.g. Backstage) for access to services, environments, documentation and delivery workflows.
• Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers, and drive engineering culture improvements focused on automation, self‑service and developer empathy.

• Cloud Technology
• Technical People leadership
• DevOps
• Platform Engineering
• Developer roles
• Akamai
• Container platform skills
• Communication
• Influence
• Stakeholder management
• Artifact repositories (Nexus, ECR)
• Build pipelines
• Secrets management
• Identity
• Access control
• Secure pipeline design
• SDLC efficiency improvement
• Lead time improvement
• Deployment frequency improvement
• Release quality improvement
• Engineering leadership
• Coaching
• Governance
• Product mindset
• Gathering feedback
• Shaping roadmaps
• Delivering internal tools
• Partnering with engineering, security and operations teams

• Significant experience working in Cloud Technology, from large enterprise environments or equivalent organisations.
• Strong demonstrated Technical People leadership experience
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Developer roles
• Strong demonstrated Akamai and container platform skills
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience managing artifact repositories (Nexus, ECR) and build pipelines.
• Strong background in secrets management, identity, access control and secure pipeline design.
• Proven experience improving SDLC efficiency, lead time, deployment frequency and release quality.
• Strong engineering leadership skills, including coaching, governance and stakeholder management.
• Product mindset, ability to gather feedback, shape roadmaps, and deliver impactful internal tools.
• Excellent communication and ability to partner with engineering, security and operations teams.