Senior DevOps Engineer

Reapit; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working policy

Job summary

Reapit, a leading end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to support ANZ operations in Melbourne. You will implement automation, improve deployment pipelines, and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to enable reliable software delivery.

You’ll influence design of secure, scalable environments, drive continuous deployment, and mentor teammates while enhancing monitoring, incident response, and security practices.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in IT and/or relevant experience.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, AWS CDK or other IaC tools.
• Experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability to identify problems and implement effective solutions.
• Experience in Kubernetes clusters and serverless infra.
• Experience with data warehousing technologies.

Responsibilities

• Implement automation initiatives for software development and operations, improving communication between teams.
• Influence design for secure, scalable environments that meet operational and product needs.
• Lead continuous deployment efforts and drive automation across deployments.
• Resolve production incidents and build tools to prevent recurrence.
• Perform infrastructure as code tasks and monitor IT operations.
• Communicate deployment details to stakeholders and mentor teammates.
• Lead code reviews and support junior engineers.

Skills

Automation

CI/CD

Incident response

Mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Serverless

Data warehousing

Cloud networking

.NET in production

Job description

Reapit is the original, end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We’ve been helping sales and lettings agents to build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology connects property professionals in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand with buyers, sellers, tenants and landlords to power the relationships that change lives.

In Australia, Reapit stands as the preferred technology choice among the nation's leading estate agents and agencies. Tailored to the unique demands of the Australian property market, Reapit provides successful leaders with unparalleled tools across sales, property management, client relations, and data analytics, reinforcing their position at the pinnacle of real estate excellence.

What you’ll be doing

• Reporting to the ANZ DevOps Lead you’ll be responsible for implementing automation initiatives dealing with software development and operations, improving communication, calibration and integration between the development team and infrastructure.


• Influence design efforts for the secure and scalable environments that satisfy both operational and product needs.


• Influence and lead efforts and processes for continuous deployment cycles.


• Drive resolution of issues identified via application and system monitoring. Resolve emergent service problems and build automated tools to identify/prevent problem recurrence.


• Perform hands-on automation tasks to treat infrastructure as code.


• Provide execution of activities related to infrastructure, security, continuous deployment, IT operations and metrics.


• Communicate with key stakeholders on infrastructure and deployment details.


• Lead code reviews


• Mentor other DevOps Engineers and Developers

Who we're looking for

At Reapit, we prioritise hiring individuals who share our values and possess the right attitudes and behaviours for success. Whilst some of the listed requirements may be important, don’t worry if you don’t meet all of them, we’d still like to hear from you.

• Tertiary qualification in an area of Information Technology and/or relevant experience


• Experience with using Ansible, Terraform, AWS CDK or other infrastructure as code tools.


• Experience with building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.


• Proven ability to identify problems and implement effective solutions.


• Experience in building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.


• Experience in Serverless infrastructure.


• Experience in Data warehousing technologies.


• Experience in cloud networking technologies.


• Experience in running .NET applications in production environments.


• Experience with mentoring junior DevOps Engineers and/or other development team members would be an advantage

What your impact and success looks like

We expect your success and impact in the early stages of your career with us to look something like this:

Within 1 Month

• Complete onboarding with demonstrated understanding of our key systems, infrastructure architecture, deployment processes, and on-call procedures


• Successfully respond to and resolve production incidents independently for at least three core services, creating or updating runbooks based on your experience.


• Become the go to person for our main Australian system

Within 3 Months

• Own incident response end-to-end for your assigned systems, including leading post-mortems and driving remediation work to completion


• Deliver at least two substantial automation or tooling improvements that measurably reduce operational overhead, improve deployment speed, or enhance system reliability


• Implement monitoring and alerting enhancements for critical services that improve observability, reduce alert fatigue, or decrease mean time to detection

Within 6 Months

• Deliver a major operations project to production (such as: delivery of a new product/system, infrastructure migration, disaster recovery implementation)


• Demonstrate quantifiable improvements in reliability metrics for systems under your ownership


• Establish yourself as an expert in your assigned systems, helping team members, influencing operational decisions, and contributing to technical improvements

We operate a Flexible Working Policy and we would like for you to work from our Brisbane or Sydney office as required.

Don't tick all the boxes? Neither do we

We care about our industry and want it to become a more inclusive and diverse place to work. So, we’re driven by hiring not only by experience and relevance for the role but by sharing our values and the right attitudes and behaviours for success. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. We feel we have an empowering environment where everyone is supported and respected, and we want you to feel this too. We welcome new ideas, thinking and approaches, whilst listening to all our employees.

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