Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Australian Secret Intelligence Service; Canberra; In loco; AUD 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Australian Secret Intelligence Service seeks a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer to drive cloud adoption and migration of workloads to AWS. The role works with the Cloud Business Office, Solution Architects and delivery teams to deliver practical engineering solutions and reusable cloud patterns.

You will design, build and operate production AWS environments, embedding modern DevOps practices and ensuring alignment with Australian Government security requirements.

Competenze

• Five+ years of experience in senior DevOps/Cloud Engineer roles with autonomous work and technical leadership.
• Experience developing applications and/or designing, building, and operating production AWS cloud environments.
• Experience assessing, planning, designing and supporting migrations of workloads to AWS environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and modern DevOps practices.
• Experience engineering solutions with a high security focus, aligning with cyber security standards and best practices.

Mansioni

• Provide engineering expertise to assist teams with assessment, planning, design and migration of workloads to AWS.
• Design, build and maintain foundational cloud products: landing zones, IAM services, container orchestration, deployment automation, observability.
• Provide technical guidance and embed DevOps practices across teams, including CI/CD and cloud infrastructure automation.
• Engage with engineering teams, architects, cyber security and IT service delivery to ensure cloud solutions meet government security requirements.
• Champion cloud adoption by resolving delivery challenges and enabling knowledge transfer on cloud technologies and practices.
• Collaborate with industry and government partners to mature cloud practices, patterns and standards.

Conoscenze

Cloud DevOps

AWS expertise

CI/CD

Automation

Security-focused engineering

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Strumenti

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Descrizione del lavoro

ASIS is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with depth of experience delivering cloud-based solutions to support the Service’s adoption and migration of workloads to AWS. Working closely with the Cloud Business Office (CBO), Solution Architects and embedding within technical delivery areas, you will provide practical engineering expertise to assist teams with cloud adoption and contribute to the Service’s broader cloud objectives.

We are looking for an experienced and pragmatic engineer who can work autonomously across application, platform and infrastructure teams. The successful candidate will have hands-on experience designing and developing applications and/or cloud platforms, and will assist teams to design, build and migrate workloads using modern DevOps practices.

Responsibilities, accountabilities and skills for this role align to SFIA Level of Responsibility Five (LoR5).

The key duties of the position include:

• Provide engineering expertise to assist teams with the assessment, planning, design and migration of workloads from traditional on-premise environments to AWS.
• Design, build, and maintain foundational cloud products, including;
  • landing zones
  • identity and access management services
  • container orchestration and management services
  • development, integration and deployment automation services
  • observability and monitoring services
• Provide technical guidance and embed contemporary DevOps practices across teams, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure automation and reusable patterns for cloud services.
• Engage with engineering teams, architects, cyber security and IT service delivery areas to ensure cloud solutions meet Australian Government and relevant cyber security requirements.
• Champion cloud adoption by resolving technical delivery challenges and facilitating knowledge transfer on cloud technologies and practices.
• Collaborate with industry and government partners to develop and mature cloud practices, patterns and standards.

Experience Requirements:

• At least five years’ experience across one or more of the following skill areas: Demonstrable experience as a senior full-stack developer, DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer or similar technical role, with the ability to work autonomously and provide practical technical leadership.
• Experience developing applications and/or designing, building, and operating production AWS cloud environments.
• Experience assessing, planning, designing and supporting the migration of workloads to AWS environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and contemporary DevOps principles and practices.
• Experience engineering solutions with high security focus, combining cyber security and industry standards and best practices.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to engage across application, data, platform, and infrastructure teams to embed cloud engineering practices, adopt reusable patterns and resolve technical delivery challenges.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality technical outcomes as part of a broader Cloud Business Office capability.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a role you must:

• Be an Australian citizen
• Be assessed as suitable to hold and maintain a TOP SECRET-Privileged Access security clearance
• For more information on eligibility please see the Protective Security Policy Framework which is publicly accessible at protectivesecurity.gov.au, Release 2026 section 18.5 provides information on Eligibility and suitability

Notes

ASIS values workplace diversity and is committed to providing a supportive, inclusive and respective work environment. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Women, people with disabilities, people that identify as LGBTIQ+ and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

All requests for reasonable adjustments will be considered and managed in consultation with you. We will continue to ask you if you require reasonable adjustments at each stage of the process. If you are successful in gaining employment, reasonable adjustments can also be made available to you in performing your role.

Please note: ASIS does not provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

Getting to know the Australian Secret Intelligence Service

ASIS is Australia’s overseas secret intelligence collection agency. Its mission is to protect and promote Australia’s vital interests through the provision of intelligence services as directed by the Government. Its work can involve collecting intelligence relating to national security, international relations and economic issues. It also contributes to Australia’s coordinated national efforts against terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and trans-national issues such as people smuggling.