DevOps Engineer – Hybrid Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

HireRight; Newcastle City Council; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

HireRight seeks a DevOps Engineer to support high-volume production systems in a hybrid cloud. You will maintain reliability, availability, and performance while enabling weekly releases and continuous improvements.

The role requires hands-on Linux, Kubernetes, Java platforms, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation expertise, spanning on-prem and cloud across regions with daily collaboration with international teams.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years in DevOps, SRE, or Production Support roles.
• Strong Linux systems administration experience in production environments.
• Experience with Kubernetes, especially Amazon EKS and/or Azure AKS.
• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, and Maven.
• Knowledge of Layer 4/7 networking, load balancers, and ingress controllers.
• Scripting with Bash or Python.
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack.
• Experience supporting Java applications including JVMs, Tomcat, RabbitMQ, and Oracle databases.
• Strong communication skills for global teams.

Responsibilities

• Support and administer production systems across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring platform availability, performance, and reliability.
• Manage and improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and deployment automation using Git, Jenkins, Maven, and related DevOps tools.
• Administer Kubernetes environments (EKS/AKS), including container orchestration, ingress, load balancing, and networking.
• Automate infrastructure and operational processes using Bash, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and SaltStack.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Linux-based Java environments (Tomcat, RabbitMQ, Oracle) and observability tools like Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and Grafana.

Skills

Linux administration

SRE practices

Cross-team collaboration

Communication

English proficiency

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Git

Jenkins

Maven

Terraform

Ansible

SaltStack

Datadog

CloudWatch

Grafana

Tomcat

RabbitMQ

Oracle

Job description

HireRight seeks a DevOps Engineer to support high-volume production systems in a hybrid cloud. You will maintain reliability, availability, and performance while enabling weekly releases and continuous improvements.

The role requires hands-on Linux, Kubernetes, Java platforms, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation expertise, spanning on-prem and cloud across regions with daily collaboration with international teams.