Data Operations Engineer: Pipelines & AI Automation

The Lottery Corporation; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Generous leave options

Learning & development platform

Internal career opportunities

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Community volunteering

Job summary

The Lottery Corporation in Melbourne is seeking an Associate Data Operations Engineer to join our Data Platforms Operations team. This is an early-career role for someone with solid data foundations who enjoys solving problems and learning in production environments.

You will keep data pipelines running, troubleshoot data issues, and explore automation and AI-enabled improvements across cloud and on-premises platforms, with on-call duties once fully established.

Qualifications

• Around 1-3 years' experience in Data Operations, Data/AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, SRE or similar.
• Strong SQL skills and confidence investigating data issues.
• Exposure to a cloud environment such as GCP or AWS.
• An understanding of data pipelines, ETL and data warehousing concepts.
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD or Python.
• An interest in how modern Data and AI workloads operate in production.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and a willingness to get stuck into incidents.
• Curiosity, initiative and a genuine appetite to learn.

Responsibilities

• Keep data pipelines and ETL processes running reliably
• Investigate data, reporting and platform issues
• Use SQL to query and troubleshoot data
• Respond to alerts and triage platform incidents
• Improve monitoring, runbooks and operational processes
• Identify opportunities for AI-enabled automation
• Support cloud, Kubernetes and legacy data platforms
• Work with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines
• Build your capability across Confluent and event streaming
• Once you're fully established, participate in our 24/7 on-call roster

Skills

SQL

Data Ops

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

ETL concepts

Python

CI/CD

Incident triage

Troubleshooting

Automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Confluent

CI/CD

Job description

The Lottery Corporation in Melbourne is seeking an Associate Data Operations Engineer to join our Data Platforms Operations team. This is an early-career role for someone with solid data foundations who enjoys solving problems and learning in production environments.

You will keep data pipelines running, troubleshoot data issues, and explore automation and AI-enabled improvements across cloud and on-premises platforms, with on-call duties once fully established.