Senior DevOps Engineer

TheDriveGroup; City of Melbourne; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

TheDriveGroup is seeking a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to own and evolve a cloud platform for a growing technology company. You will design and build the platform, moving from a basic footprint to a secure, scalable multi-account environment.

You’ll lead decisions on cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD, security and observability, and set engineering standards with genuine autonomy. Remote in Australia, permanent senior IC role, with Australian working rights required.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience building cloud and DevOps platforms from scratch.
• Strong AWS experience across IAM, networking and governance.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code implementation.
• Solid CI/CD and developer tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code with strong module, state and review practices.
• Design and evolve AWS cloud architecture including multi account environments, Landing Zones, guardrails, identity, networking and shared services.
• Own container and Kubernetes based infrastructure supporting production applications.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes and developer tooling.
• Improve developer productivity through faster builds, better environments and automation.
• Own observability across logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Embed security across cloud, identity, networking, containers, applications and software supply chains.
• Improve resilience, backup, recovery, performance and cloud cost management.
• Support infrastructure for complex data platforms and customer deployed environments.

Skills

AWS

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Containers

Security

Software engineering

Architecture decisions

Observability

Multi-account

Job description

Remote anywhere in Australia | Permanent | Senior Individual Contributor

We’re looking for a highly experienced Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to take genuine ownership of a growing technology company’s cloud platform.

This isn’t a role where you’ll inherit a mature environment and simply keep it running. You’ll have the opportunity to design and build the platform properly, taking an existing cloud footprint and evolving it into a secure, scalable and deliberately engineered multi account environment.

You’ll own decisions across cloud architecture, IaC, CI/CD, developer experience, security, observability and reliability, with the freedom to set the technical standards for the platform.

What you’ll do

• Build and manage infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code with strong module, state and review practices
• Design and evolve AWS cloud architecture, including multi account environments, Landing Zones, guardrails, identity, networking and shared services
• Own container and Kubernetes based infrastructure supporting production applications
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines, release processes and developer tooling
• Improve developer productivity through faster builds, better environments and automation
• Own observability across logging, metrics, tracing and alerting
• Embed security across cloud, identity, networking, containers, applications and software supply chains
• Improve resilience, backup, recovery, performance and cloud cost management
• Support infrastructure for complex data platforms and customer deployed environments

What you’ll bring

• Deep hands on experience building cloud and DevOps platforms from the ground up
• Strong AWS experience across architecture, account structure, Landing Zones, IAM, networking and governance
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code experience
• Strong CI/CD and developer productivity experience
• Containers and/or Kubernetes experience
• Genuine software engineering capability and the ability to write code, not just configuration
• Strong understanding of security across infrastructure, cloud, identity, applications and data
• Ability to make architecture decisions independently and explain the trade offs behind them
• Experience working closely with senior software engineers and technical stakeholders

Highly regarded

Experience with data platforms or technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Presto/Trino, Iceberg or Airflow would be highly regarded, as would experience with Scala or another JVM language.

Experience across Azure, hybrid or multi cloud environments, customer deployed software and regulated environments such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 or Essential Eight would also be valuable.

Why join?

This role offers an unusual level of technical ownership and influence. There’s no large platform team or layer of management between you and the work. You’ll have the latitude to set the architecture, establish engineering standards and build the foundations the wider engineering function relies on.

It’s ideal for someone who has built platforms end to end before and wants the opportunity to do it again with genuine autonomy.

• Remote anywhere in Australia
• Permanent, senior individual contributor
• Existing ongoing Australian working rights required

If you have any questions about this role or others we have available, you can email Hayley directly via ******@thedrivegroup.com.au.

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