Flexible Backend DevOps Engineer – APIs & CI/CD

Australian Research Data Commons; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is recruiting a DevOps Engineer (Backend Development) to build, test and maintain the back-end services and APIs powering national research data products. You will work in an Agile team with developers, analysts, testers and admins across Canberra, Brisbane or Melbourne.

Responsibilities include API development in Java/Spring Boot on Linux, CI/CD, containerized deployments, and integration with partner systems.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams in a matrix environment.
• Experience in the Australian higher education or research sector with understanding of research infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy and maintain back-end services and APIs powering ARDC’s data products.
• Integrate with partner systems and catalogues.
• Use CI/CD pipelines and automated testing; containerize components.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, peer programming and code reviews.
• Integrate LLMs (RAG search) and contribute to front-end work when needed.

Skills

Communication

Distributed teams

Higher ed

Research infra

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

CI/CD

Containers

Linux

Job description

The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is recruiting a DevOps Engineer (Backend Development) to build, test and maintain the back-end services and APIs powering national research data products. You will work in an Agile team with developers, analysts, testers and admins across Canberra, Brisbane or Melbourne.

Responsibilities include API development in Java/Spring Boot on Linux, CI/CD, containerized deployments, and integration with partner systems.