Senior DevOps Engineer

Australian Broadcasting Corporation; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Australian Broadcasting Corporation seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead infrastructure, automation and reliability for ABC iView services across web and mobile.

You will drive cloud infrastructure provisioning, testing, deployment and production reliability while shaping long-term IT roadmaps and standards.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience in building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure.
• Proven ability to establish secure, reliable build and deployment practices.
• Strong skills in creating repeatable CI/CD pipelines with clear docs.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and automation of infrastructure for ABC iView and Digital Product.
• Provision and improve AWS-based cloud infrastructure for web and mobile platforms.
• Define and contribute to long-term infrastructure and automation roadmaps.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines delivering a constant ready state.
• Establish infrastructure as code standards and best practices.

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudFormation

Job description

This is fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join ABC Digital Product and help lead the infrastructure, automation and reliability behind ABC iView services across web and mobile.

You'll provide specialist DevOps expertise across cloud infrastructure provisioning, testing, deployment and production reliability while helping define the longer-term infrastructure and automation roadmap.

This is a hands-on senior engineering role combining AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, reliability engineering, automation and technical leadership.

The Job

• Lead the development and automation of infrastructure supporting ABC iView and Digital Product services.
• Provision, manage and improve cloud infrastructure supporting web and mobile platforms.
• Define and contribute to the long-term infrastructure and automation roadmap.
• Provide technical leadership in designing and provisioning efficient, repeatable CI/CD pipelines that deliver a 'constant ready state'.
• Establish, document and promote engineering standards including infrastructure as code.
• Plan and coordinate major infrastructure and automation initiatives while clearly communicating dependencies, progress and constraints.
• Identify, triage and resolve complex production and infrastructure issues, minimising time to resolution.
• Drive improvements across platform reliability, security and cloud cost optimisation.
• Design and develop reusable infrastructure, tooling and automation that can support multiple Digital Product teams.
• Maintain detailed technical standards and documentation and strong knowledge of how digital systems and services are used by the business.
• Improve platform reliability through fault monitoring, reporting, resilience and service availability, partnering with Platform Operations.
• Provide technical guidance, support and mentoring to engineering colleagues

About You

You'll have:

• Significant experience leading technical initiatives focused on building and deploying cloud-based infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience establishing secure and reliable build and deployment practices.
• Strong experience developing efficient and repeatable CI/CD pipelines, supported by clear documentation and standards.
• Substantial hands-on experience developing and managing AWS-based infrastructure.
• Strong experience working with Linux-based environments.
• Experience with common cloud operations tooling and content delivery networks (CDNs).
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, reliability, security and operational best practice.
• Demonstrated technical leadership within development or engineering teams.
• Experience building strategic working relationships across technical and business groups.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organisational capability with experience planning multi-person delivery, managing dependencies and clearly communicating progress and blockers.

More Info:

In line with our focus on diversity and inclusion, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.

To request recruitment and selection information in alternate formats, request adjustments, or if you have accessibility requirements, please contact *************@abc.net.au

Brett Whyte, Recruitment Specialist via email***********@abc.net.au

For more information on working at the ABCvisit abc.net.au/careers

Applications Close: 11:55 pm, 9 October 2026.