Senior DevOps Engineer

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A$130,000.00/yr - A$140,000.00/yr

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Job Summary:

Phillip Riley is partnering with an impressive R&D business looking to expand their capabilities as they continue to develop ground-breaking products. The client is seeking a skilled and proactive DevOps Engineer to join their team, playing a key role in a small but growing DevOps function.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for bridging the gap between software development and IT operations by automating processes, maintaining and optimizing infrastructure, and ensuring seamless continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. You will work with various teams to improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of their systems.

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Perth, Southern Suburbs

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management using tools like Terraform, Ansible.
• Monitor system performance and respond to incidents with root cause analysis and post-mortem reports.
• Optimize and ensure the scalability, availability, and security of production systems.
• Implement system monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure proactive issue resolution.
• Manage containerized applications with Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends, tools, and best practices in DevOps.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Likely to hold a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps role or similar position.
• Virtualisation technologies (VMWare, XCP, etc.).
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Zabbix, etc.).

Skills:

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Shell, Bash, etc.).
• Familiarity with version control tools (Git, SVN, etc.).
• Understanding of networking, firewalls, VPNs, and cloud security.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

What they Offer:

This is a great opportunity for a senior DevOps engineer to work on something really unique and be a key contributor to the team as they develop. There will be opportunities to move into people leadership as they grow, and they champion personal development as a key factor in their employee’s growth within the business.

You will work on cutting-edge technologies, working with a fun and energetic team where 1 day can be different to the previous. The business are looking to bring in house all traditional cloud services, making this role a excellent technical challenge.

If you are a Senior DevOps engineer and considering a new role get in touch to discuss this further!

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology