SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

TaltentTrek; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

TaltentTrek is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure in Melbourne. You will lead CI/CD pipelines, manage IaC, and deploy Docker/Kubernetes workloads to ensure secure, reliable releases.

Join a team focused on incident management, security controls and DR planning while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in IT/CS/SE.
• 5+ years' hands-on production DevOps experience.
• Strong cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Proven CI/CD design and maintenance experience using major tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines for automated builds and deployments.
• Manage IaC with Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Deploy and manage Docker and Kubernetes workloads.
• Establish monitoring, logging and incident response practices.
• Lead incident resolution and root-cause analysis for infra issues.
• Implement security controls, IAM and secrets management.
• Design DR, backup and high-availability solutions.
• Improve cloud performance and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with dev, test and security teams on releases.
• Document operations and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

CI/CD expertise

Cloud platforms

Linux administration

Docker & Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell)

Networking fundamentals

Monitoring & incident management

Security controls & IAM

Git & release management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology/CS/SE or related

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation or Bicep

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, implements and maintains scalable, secure and reliable cloud infrastructure, leading CI/CD, incident response and DevOps standards across the team.

What you'll do

• Design, implement and maintain scalable, secure and reliable cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines to automate software builds, testing and deployments.
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.
• Deploy and manage containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Establish monitoring, logging and alerting to improve system availability and incident detection.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Implement security controls, access management, secrets management and vulnerability remediation.
• Design and test backup, disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.
• Improve cloud performance, capacity planning and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with development, testing and security teams to improve release processes.
• Establish DevOps standards, maintain operational documentation and mentor junior engineers.
• Plan infrastructure upgrades and migrations with appropriate testing and rollback procedures.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience, including hands‑on responsibility for production environments.
• Strong expertise in at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
• Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or Azure DevOps.
• Strong Linux administration skills and proficiency in Bash, Python or PowerShell.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automated provisioning.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of networking, including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls and VPNs.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, incident management and disaster recovery.
• Knowledge of secure deployment practices, identity and access management, and secrets handling.
• Proficiency with Git, branching strategies and release management.
• Strong problem‑solving, technical leadership, communication and mentoring skills.
• Desirable: relevant cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications.
• Desirable: experience with hybrid or multi‑cloud infrastructure.
• Desirable: familiarity with GitOps and automated security testing.
• Desirable: knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering practices, including service-level objectives and error budgets.
• Desirable: experience supporting database platforms, microservices or AI/ML workloads.
• Desirable: experience working in Agile teams and coordinating releases across multiple projects.