Automation Software Engineer

NEP Australia; Southbank; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global media technology company in Southbank is seeking an Automation Software Engineer. You'll design and implement automation for global broadcast infrastructure, integrate DevOps practices, and work with tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. Ideal candidates have strong experience in infrastructure automation and a passion for technology.

Benefits

Salary continuance insurance

Additional leave days

Travel benefits and discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Strong experience in infrastructure automation and DevOps practices within hybrid environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration and deployment automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automation frameworks for infrastructure management.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines that integrate with infrastructure-as-code.
• Automate provisioning of network devices and cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Infrastructure automation

DevOps practices

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes administration

Python

GitHub Actions

Observability concepts

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

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NEP is Australia’s leading provider of outsourced television production services.

We are always looking for great people to join our team; people with a passion for people and teamwork helping us deliver exceptional results for our clients.

NEP Australia is currently looking for an Automation Software Engineer to join our team at the Andrew’s HUB in Southbank!

The position

As a Platform Infrastructure Automation Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the automation that powers NEP’s global broadcast and media infrastructure. You’ll work at the intersection of network engineering and DevOps, developing tooling and workflows that unify infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform resilience.

Key Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Design, implement, and maintain developer-friendly automation frameworks to streamline infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Build and extend CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) that integrate with infrastructure-as-code, container delivery, and testing workflows.
• Automate provisioning of network devices, Kubernetes clusters, cloud infrastructure, and edge workloads.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure modules (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Python) to manage hybrid platforms consistently.
• Implement observability standards across infrastructure—logging, tracing, metrics—using tools such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, etc.
• Collaborate closely with network engineers, platform developers, and site reliability engineers to ensure automation integrates across functional domains.
• Contribute to self-service tooling and internal developer platforms to empower teams to safely deploy and manage infrastructure resources.
• Support automated integration testing and validation for network services and infrastructure components.
• Write clean, modular, and well-documented code that supports long-term maintainability and platform growth.

Required skills and attributes:

• Strong experience in infrastructure automation and DevOps practices within hybrid (on-prem + cloud) environments.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Kustomize, or Helm.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration, deployment automation, and GitOps workflows.
• Solid scripting or software development skills in Python, Go, or Bash for tooling and integrations.
• Familiarity with network device automation (e.g., via NAPALM, Netmiko, gNMI, or native APIs).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or GitLab CI.
• Comfortable working across Linux systems, container runtimes, and Kubernetes-based clusters.
• Understanding of observability concepts and tools such as Prometheus, Loki, ELK Stack, etc.

NEP believes that, first and foremost, the efforts of our people are what contribute to our successes. We offer a range of benefits that assist our team in their professional development and wellbeing, including:

• Salary continuance insurance
• NEP Days – additional 5 days of leave per year (conditions apply)
• NEP Travel benefits & discounts including Qantas Club Membership
• Discounts through Employment Hero Work app
• Employee Assistance Program

This is a full-time role and is a unique opportunity for the right person. So if you want to be part of a global company apply today!

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

About Our Process

At NEP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with Our Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants' suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, right to work checks, and reference checks.

NEP is the largest media technology partner for content producers of live sports, entertainment, and corporate events globally. For more than 35 years, NEP has been delivering innovative products and services that enable clients to make, manage and show the world their content—anywhere, anytime, on any platform.

As a trusted partner working on some of the largest productions in the world, NEP offers a complete set of end-to-end solutions, from content capture to distribution—including a growing portfolio of transformational cloud-based, software-based and virtualized technologies.

• NEP’s Live Production solutions range from AV services and live audience enhancements to traditional outside broadcast and cutting-edge centralized and cloud production.

• NEP’s Virtual Production solutions start at the creative stage and end with exceptional execution across ICVFX, augmented reality, LED stages and more.

• NEP’s Media Processing solutions provide the tools and products our clients need to ingest, edit, store, search, manage and distribute their digital assets to rights holders across multiple platforms.

Headquartered in the United States, NEP has operations in 25 countries with over 4,000+ employees. Together, NEP has supported productions in over 100 countries on all seven continents and is still growing. Clients range from the leaders in sport, music, film and TV, to major corporate brands, agencies, to new content owners and creators all around the world.

Anywhere, anytime, on any platform—we help our clients make, manage, and show the world their content.