Senior DevOps Engineer

Australia Post; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Burnley Office access

Job summary

Australia Post is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join its digital technology team. You will automate processes, support CI/CD systems, and uplift platform infrastructure to deliver secure, scalable services for customers and communities.

You’ll collaborate with multiple tech teams, work with GCP, AWS, Terraform and container tooling, and operate in a hybrid Burnley office environment with agile practices guiding delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Python and NodeJS within DevOps context.
• Experience with CI/CD principles and source control workflows.
• Hands-on with Docker containers and security scanning tools.
• Extensive cloud experience (AWS, GCP; Azure advantageous).
• Familiar with Terraform/CloudFormation and infrastructure as code.
• Experience monitoring with CloudWatch, CloudTrail and observability tools.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment with on-call duties.

Responsibilities

• Automate processes and support CI/CD pipelines across platforms.
• Maintain, uplift and secure application platform infrastructure.
• Collaborate with teams to migrate from legacy platforms.
• Build at scale and deploy rapidly in production environments.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum setting and participate in on-call duties.

Skills

Python

NodeJS

CI/CD practices

Agile teamwork

Tools

Docker

Terraform

AWS

GCP

CloudWatch

Snyk

Checkmarx

Nexus

Tomcat

Job description

We’re looking for aSenior DevOps Engineer to join our diverse, talented and innovative digital technology team who together are helping our customers and communities build a better future. Together, we design, build and maintain products, services and experiences that Australian's love and trust, while delivering a sustainable future for Australia Post, and you could be part of that.
We're empowered to deliver for our teams and to delight our customers. We provide an inclusive and supportive environment that nurtures talented people, trusts our teams to deliver their best, and leverages modern work practices and technologies. It's an unexpectedly dynamic and collaborative culture that feels more like a start-up than a 213-year old icon.

What you’ll deliver with us

Working within a collaborative team-based culture of continual experimentation and learning, the Senior DevOps Engineer possesses a deep understanding and passion for DevOps. The Senior DevOps Engineer works with a range of technical teams to implement technical solutions and support our existing platforms to deliver operational excellence and a high-quality customer experience.
The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for automation of processes, support and maintenance of continuous integration delivery systems and the support, maintenance and uplift of application platform infrastructure to provide stable, robust and secure systems and services to our customers and provide speed to market for new solutions.

You’ll also

• Work on integration with and migration from legacy platforms.
• Build strong relationships with technical teams staying connected to all facets of technology in order to continuously automate, integrate and deliver sustainable software in highly managed systems
• Collaborate with technical teams to resolve technical queries as well as implementing strategic solutions to maintain and uplift our application infrastructure.
• Build at scale and deploy at speed
• Work in anAgile/Scrum development environment, aligning to the goals and objectives for project and agile development.
• This role focuses on both project work and BAU
  

About you

We are seeking a good communicator with strong presentation and interpersonal skills and ability to clearly articulate and document solution design. This is because you’ll be working closely with developers, designers, architecture, business analysts, quality assurance, testing services, information security and technology operation teams. From a technical perspective you’ll get to work with GCP, GITLAB/Jenkins, SNYK, Checkmarx, Nexus, SonarQube and Tomcat in this position, so someone who is a passionate technologist is a wonderful fit for this team.

You’ll also need

• Technical background working with Python, NodeJS or equivalent language and NoSql databases (DynamoDb, redis)
• Proven ability with AWS, Azure is required and with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) an advantage but not required
• Expert Knowledge of source code management tools and CI/CD principles allowing application source code to be built, packaged, versioned and deployed (Maven, Jenkins/GitLab, GIT, SonarQube, Nexus or equivalent)
• Expert knowledge with Docker and containers as well as security scanning (Snyk etc)
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment with on-call responsibilities
• Demonstrated experience working with CloudFormation / Terraform, Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, Route 53, RDS, Load balancers
• Demonstrated experience working with AWS Cloud Watch, AWS CloudTrail, SumoLogic, New Relic, Lambda, ECS -Fargate, ECR, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2
  

How we’ll deliver for you

• Work with cutting edge technology including Terraform and GCP
• Hybrid work environment in our Burnley Office

We’re delivering together

At Australia Post, we acknowledge the TraditionalCustodians of the land on which we operate, live and gather as employees.

We believe our business should reflect the diverse communities we operate in and are proud to be an inclusive workplace for people from all walks of life. We encourage applicationsfrom people of all ages, genders and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, People with Disability, LGBTQIA+ and Refugees.

We are one of the largest organisations in Australia to successfully achieve Disability Confident Recruiter status. We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process and workplace for those living with a disability and are committed to reviewing and removing bias in our processes to create a gender-equitable recruitment experience and workplace. If you have any questions about accessibility, please contact our Diversity & Inclusion team on [e-mail].