Senior DevOps Engineer

Datacom

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 150,000 - 190,000

Full time

5 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (Da

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Ongoing learning and career growth

Industry-leading training access

Recognition programmes

Job summary

Datacom is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer in Australia to join a high-performance operations team. The role focuses on stability, scalability, and maintainability of customer-facing systems, with hybrid work across Australian offices.

Candidates must be an Australian citizen and eligible for NV1 clearance. You will contribute to building elegant, maintainable, highly available solutions with an experimentation and continuous improvement mindset, collaborating within

Qualifications

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and full stack automation (CI/CD).
Ability to research and promote platform-agnostic technology solutions.
Strong understanding of DevOps, SRE practices, and security hardening.

Responsibilities

Establishing and maintaining operational excellence with automation across multiple technologies.
OS deployment, configuration, and security hardening.
Install and configure application middleware platforms.
Deploy to VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS.
Code deployment and platform lifecycle management.
Report for audit and compliance requirements.
Ensure high availability through reliable change and release processes.
Collaborate with customers through technical design and engagement.

Skills

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Automation

CI/CD

Cloud architecture

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Puppet

Ansible

PowerShell DSC

F5 BIG-IP

HAProxy

Prometheus

Grafana

RESTful API

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Javascript

VMware vRO

Rundeck

Docker/Buildah/Podman

Artifactory

Job description

Docker / Buildah / Podman container development

Description

Position

Senior DevOps Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer

Datacom Location

Canberra preferred but Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane ok.

Security Requirements

MUST be an Australian citizen due to the need to get security clearances (current and active security clearances preferred)

Full Time, Permanent Position

About Us

At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.

About The Role

You will be joining a high-performance team in our extensive Operations business with a focus on innovative, modern approaches to improving the stability, scalability and maintainability of our customer facing systems.

As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to building solutions that solve our customers' hardest problems. You will be building elegant, maintainable, highly available and repeatable solutions, with an experimentation and continuous improvement mindset. You will work collaboratively within an Agile team of dedicated technology SMEs with access to Datacom’s global pool of technical specialists.

Please note, the team are hybrid and work across our Australian offices. To be eligible for this role you will need to be an Australian Citizen and eligible to obtain NV1 security clearance.

What You Will Do

Establishing and maintaining operational excellence with automation across a number of technologies and areas
Operating System deployment, configuration, and security hardening
Installation and configuration of application middleware platforms
Deployment to VMware and VMware Cloud on AWS
Code deployment and platform lifecycle management
Reporting for audit and compliance requirements
Ensuring platform high availability is maintained through reliable operational change and release processes
Customer engagement through technical collaboration and solution design

Requirements

What You Will Bring

As Senior DevOps Engineer, you will contribute to the team’s existing cross functional capabilities by providing high level experience with a combination of open source and VMware automation products. You will bring a detailed understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts, and experience with full stack automation including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

You will be given the ability to continually research, develop, and actively promote platform agnostic technology solutions that eliminate manual processes and solve genuine technical challenges.

If you have experience in the following technology areas, it would be an advantage, but ultimately, we’re looking for DevOps Engineers or Site Reliability Engineers with a deep understanding and appreciation of technology that can adapt quickly to rapid, iterative change:

Operating Systems