Senior DevOps Engineer

Datacom

Canberra

Hybrid

AUD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

20 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

DataCare EAP 24/7

Ongoing learning and certifications

Access to learning platforms

Recognition programmes

Employee discounts

Job summary

Datacom is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performance Operations team. The role focuses on improving stability, scalability, and maintainability of customer-facing systems, with hybrid work across Australian offices.

You will build elegant, repeatable solutions and collaborate with Datacom’s global technical specialists to drive continuous improvement. Applicants should be an Australian citizen eligible for NV1 security clearance.

Qualifications

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and CI/CD
Strong background in automation and configuration management
Ability to design scalable, resilient platform solutions

Responsibilities

Establishing and maintaining operational excellence with automation across technologies
OS deployment, configuration, and security hardening
Install and configure middleware platforms
Deploy to VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS
Code deployment and platform lifecycle management
Reporting for audit and compliance requirements
Ensure high availability through change and release processes
Customer engagement through technical collaboration and solution design

Skills

CI/CD mindset

IaC concepts

Automation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Puppet Bolt

Ansible

PowerShell DSC

Bash

Python

VMware vRO

Rundeck

Docker/Buildah/Podman

Artifactory

Job description

Docker / Buildah / Podman container development

Description

Position

Senior DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

Datacom Location

Canberra preferred but Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane ok.

Security Requirements

MUST be an Australian citizen due to the need to get security clearances (current and active security clearances preferred)

Full Time, Permanent Position

About Us

At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.

About The Role

You will be joining a high-performance team in our extensive Operations business with a focus on innovative, modern approaches to improving the stability, scalability and maintainability of our customer facing systems.

As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to building solutions that solve our customers' hardest problems. You will be building elegant, maintainable, highly available and repeatable solutions, with an experimentation and continuous improvement mindset. You will work collaboratively within an Agile team of dedicated technology SMEs with access to Datacom’s global pool of technical specialists.

Please note, the team are hybrid and work across our Australian offices. To be eligible for this role you will need to be an Australian Citizen and eligible to obtain NV1 security clearance.

What You Will Do

Establishing and maintaining operational excellence with automation across a number of technologies and areas
Operating System deployment, configuration, and security hardening
Installation and configuration of application middleware platforms
Deployment to VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS
Code deployment and platform lifecycle management
Reporting for audit and compliance requirements
Ensuring platform high availability is maintained through reliable operational change and release processes
Customer engagement through technical collaboration and solution design

Requirements

What You Will Bring

As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the team’s existing cross functional capabilities by providing high level experience with a combination of open source and VMware automation products. You will bring a detailed understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts, and experience with full stack automation including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

You will be given the ability to continually research, develop, and actively promote platform agnostic technology solutions that eliminate manual processes and solve genuine technical challenges.

If you have experience in the following technology areas, it would be an advantage, but ultimately, we’re looking for DevOps Engineers or Site Reliability Engineers with a deep understanding and appreciation of technology that can adapt quickly to rapid, iterative change:

Operating Systems