Lead Platform Engineer-12 month fixed term contract

Ticketek Entertainment Group (TEG) is a Live Experience Group that helps people discover, access and experience the unforgettable. We believe Life is better live®. With over 50 years in live entertainment, we sell more than 30 million tickets annually, connect with 30 million fans across Australia and New Zealand, and bring 18,000+ events to life each year. Headquartered in Sydney, we operate globally across eight pillars: Ticketing, Live Touring, Sport, Immersive Experiences, Customer & Data Solutions, Venues, VIP Experiences and Partnerships. Through our integrated operating model, we bring the best live content, ticketing and technology to our partners and create unforgettable memories that last a lifetime Our values guide everything we do: we partner with purpose, empower boldness within clear boundaries, and celebrate human connection – always putting the fan first.

The Role You'll join Ovation, TEG's digital business, within a Technology team of motivated, ambitious IT professionals driving an integration-led innovation strategy. As Lead Platform Engineer, you'll drive a CI/CD modernisation program that decouples 254 deployment pipelines from a legacy monolithic system into self-contained, per-repo pipelines with canary deployments, automated rollback and smoke tests across a multi-region AWS environment. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll set technical direction for a small team of platform engineers and personally build pipelines alongside them, owning the deployment experience for ~170 actively deploying services across Lambda, ECS Fargate, ECS Windows, EC2 and S3/CloudFront.