Senior DevOps Engineer – Cloud, Automation & Resilience

Great Southern Bank; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Study leave

Wellbeing coaching

Wellbeing centre

Work-from-home flexibility

Product discounts

Job summary

Great Southern Bank is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer based in Brisbane. You will optimise critical application platforms, AWS cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and speed of technology delivery.

You’ll manage patching, capacity, monitoring and security across 24x7 systems, while providing leadership to engineers and partner teams. The role includes on-call duties and collaboration with delivery teams to enable scalable, secure platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IT environments experience with strong capability in application support, cloud engineering, systems administration and/or technical delivery.
• Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies, with exposure to on-premise environments, containerisation and platforms such as VMware, OpenShift or Fargate.
• Strong DevOps and automation capability, including CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment automation, orchestration and scripting using Bash, PowerShell or Groovy.
• Broad technical knowledge across Windows and Linux environments, infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, integration, security and application technologies.
• Experience supporting business-critical, customer-facing systems, ideally digital banking or payment platforms, including incident, change and release management in controlled environments.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, stakeholder and vendor management skills, along with an understanding of technology risk, operational resilience and regulatory requirements within financial services.
• Degree qualifications in Information Technology or equivalent experience, with AWS, RHEL, Microsoft or other relevant technology certifications highly regarded.

Responsibilities

• Supporting and optimising critical application platforms and AWS cloud environments to deliver high availability and reliability
• Improving CI/CD pipelines and automating build, deployment and operational processes to enable faster, safer technology change
• Managing system patching, vulnerabilities, capacity and platform lifecycle to maintain secure and resilient environments
• Configuring and maintaining monitoring and alerting across critical 24x7 systems
• Supporting project delivery teams with non-production environments, application builds, configuration and deployments
• Leading technical incident response and stakeholder communications during service disruptions
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to engineers and partner teams while driving continuous improvement
• Participating in after-hours releases and the rotational 24x7 DevOps on-call roster

Skills

AWS

CI/CD

Scripting

Windows/Linux

Leadership

Security/Compliance

Education

Information Technology degree

Tools

OpenShift

VMware

Fargate

PowerShell

Groovy

Job description

Great Southern Bank is seeking a hands-on DevOps Engineer based in Brisbane. You will optimise critical application platforms, AWS cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and speed of technology delivery.

You’ll manage patching, capacity, monitoring and security across 24x7 systems, while providing leadership to engineers and partner teams. The role includes on-call duties and collaboration with delivery teams to enable scalable, secure platforms.