DevOps Engineer

• DevOps Engineer
• Full Time Permanent Role
• Adelaide Based Position with 2 days Work From Home
  
  

The role will maintain and innovate our client’s cloud based platform as well as support their platform requirements across storage, security, data, governance, performance, and environment management.

Responsibilities

• Support the cloud environments in accordance with company SLAs and security guidelines, contributing to best practices (incl. documentation) for the broader Platform Team engineering function.
• Support product engineering teams by developing and maintaining engineering tooling and internal IT systems.
• Support the design, estimation, and planning of new features which implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions in line with the product roadmap.
• Deploy (and debug) initiatives, as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle – using your exceptional problem-solving skills to see and solve issues before they escalate into problems.
• Work with all relevant engineering teams to ensure any necessary impacts to internal processes are managed and implemented appropriately, also educating / training the relevant engineering teams as part of the initiatives.
• With a focus on scale and reliability, achieve increasing levels of automation to Engineering tools and processes
• Continuously evolve platform monitoring capability as well as proactively review application performance and exception handling, including liaising with other teams to identify risk areas, fault find and resolve issues.
• Some out-of-hours work may be required as can be expected in this role to ensure business impact is minimised where platform outages are required to implement new functionality.
• Availability for on-call support to address critical production issues may be required.
• As a senior member of the team, collaborate with engineering teams during investigation and resolution of Priority Incidents
  
  

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in a software development team/company.
• Demonstrable experience in the following:
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Kops (and/or EKS, Helm)
• Ansible
• Terraform
• AWS
• Linux / Unix systems administration
• Proficiency in scripting language like Bash, Python
• CI/CD pipelines
• PRTG
• Prometheus, Grafana
• Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana or similar
• Knowledge of:
• Software development lifecycle and supporting tools.
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) processes.
• Automation tools and ability to choose the best tools and solutions to support DevOps practices across a software engineering capability.
• Demonstrate critical thinking, analyse critical systems with varying degrees of complexity and ability to prioritize tasks based on criticality and impact
• Agile and quick learner – Ability to learn new technologies and tools
• Excellent communication skills – to share ideas, solutions to a dynamic challenging environment
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science and/or equivalent work experience.
  
  

If the above role sounds of interest, please click on “Apply Now”, or get in touch with Ivan via E// [email protected] for a confidential chat!