DevOps Engineer: CI/CD, Kubernetes & Infra (Flexible)

Australian Research Data Commons; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Opportunity to work on Australian data

Job summary

Australian Research Data Commons in Canberra, Brisbane or Melbourne is seeking a DevOps Engineer (Operations & Infrastructure) to design, operate and improve CI/CD pipelines and containerised environments. The role collaborates with systems admins, developers and data engineers to release national research data products securely.

The position involves managing rootless container deployments, infrastructure as code, and monitoring of clustered services, with a focus on identity, secrets

Qualifications

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams in a matrix environment.
• Experience working with or in the Australian higher education or research sector, with demonstrated understanding of research infrastructure and the role it plays in enabling research activity.
• Suitable experience and qualifications to meet the requirements outlined in the position description.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve CI/CD pipelines (such as Bitbucket Pipelines), and automate builds, tests and deployments.
• Build and maintain rootless container-based deployments (such as Docker, Podman and Kubernetes) on Linux servers.
• Maintain infrastructure and configuration as code (such as Ansible and Terraform), and write scripts that automate routine tasks, working with system administrators.
• Deploy, operate and monitor clustered services (Neo4j, Elasticsearch and Solr) and data ingestion pipelines.
• Implement identity and access management, secrets management and cybersecurity practices across pipelines and environments.

Skills

Communication skills

Distributed teams experience

Higher education/research sector know‑

Tools

Bitbucket Pipelines

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Neo4j

Elasticsearch

Solr

Job description

Australian Research Data Commons in Canberra, Brisbane or Melbourne is seeking a DevOps Engineer (Operations & Infrastructure) to design, operate and improve CI/CD pipelines and containerised environments. The role collaborates with systems admins, developers and data engineers to release national research data products securely.

The position involves managing rootless container deployments, infrastructure as code, and monitoring of clustered services, with a focus on identity, secrets