DevOps Engineer - Canstar

OpenTalent; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTalent in Brisbane is seeking a hands-on Mid-Level DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure reliability, scalability, and deployments. You will operate within the Infrastructure Management team to help our development squads move fast, deploy safely, and troubleshoot effectively.

In this role you will provision infrastructure as code, optimize deployment pipelines, and contribute to a modern engineering culture. You will help shape how we scale our infra going forward.

Responsibilities

• Maintain multi-environment cloud infrastructure to ensure reliability and uptime.
• Monitor networking, firewalls, and redundant connections across clouds.
• Enforce high-availability configurations and operational best practices.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate safe deployments.
• Author reusable IaC templates with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed DevOps guardrails.
• Create runbooks and self-service docs for engineers.
• Respond to incidents with timely remediation and post-incident reviews.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

IaC

Terraform

CloudFormation

Monitoring

Observability

Automation

Developer Enablement

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Direct Connect

VPNs

Job description

Overview

We're looking for a Mid-Level DevOps Engineer who takes ownership of keeping our cloud infrastructure highly available, scalable, and running smoothly. Embedded within the Infrastructure Management team, you'll work at the intersection of infrastructure reliability, pipeline automation, and developer enablement - helping our development squads move fast, deploy safely, and troubleshoot effectively.

This is a hands‑on role where you'll be provisioning infrastructure as code, maintaining core network systems, optimizing deployment pipelines, and contributing to a modern engineering culture. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting‑edge tools, tackle complex technical challenges, and help shape how we scale our infrastructure going forward.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Network Operations

• Maintain, patch, and optimize multi‑environment cloud infrastructure to ensure system reliability and uptime in line with agreed SLAs.
• Monitor and manage core networking infrastructure, ensuring stable routing, firewalls, and redundant cloud connections (such as Site‑to‑Site VPNs and Direct Connect circuits).
• Ensure infrastructure configurations adhere to operational best practices and high‑availability standards.
• Actively identify and execute opportunities for cloud cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency.

CI/CD Automation & & Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• Build, maintain, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines to support fast and reliable code compilation and deployments.
• Create standardized, repeatable pipeline blueprints and templates that make onboarding new microservices seamless for development teams.
• Author robust, repeatable infrastructure blueprints and reusable templates using Terraform or CloudFormation to accelerate microservice delivery.
• Triage, debug, and resolve deployment failures, keeping our delivery pipelines green.

Developer Enablement & Self-Service

• Work closely with software engineering teams to embed modern DevOps practices and guardrails throughout the development lifecycle.
• Build out clear documentation, runbooks, and self‑service frameworks to empower developers to safely debug and resolve their own application‑level pipeline issues.
• Act as a technical bridge, sharing operations and platform knowledge across teams through day‑to‑day collaboration and technical support.

Monitoring, Observability & Incident Response

• Maintain and improve system observability, metrics collection, and alerting stacks to catch infrastructure performance issues before they impact users.
• Respond to infrastructure alerts, logs, and system events, investigating anomalies and escalating priority incidents calmly and quickly.