Senior DevOps Engineer
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Summary
12-month contract (plus extension) Senior DevOps Engineer designing, automating and supporting cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes platforms using AWS/Azure, Terraform and GitLab tooling. Hybrid role across multiple Australian states; Australian citizenship and NV1 clearance eligibility are mandatory, indicating a government client.
Salary: Competitive Market rate
Location: Multiple locations - QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SAWork arrangements: Hybrid
Rate: Market rate
Contract Length: 12 months + 12 month extension
The Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, automating and supporting cloud infrastructure and deployment platforms. Working closely with developers, architects and business stakeholders, you'll help drive DevOps maturity, infrastructure automation and cloud optimisation across multiple initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, deploying and supporting cloud infrastructure solutions
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
- Developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform
- Managing containerised environments and Kubernetes platforms
- Collaborating with stakeholders to deliver scalable and secure solutions
- Supporting Agile project teams and providing technical leadership
- Ensuring solutions are documented, supportable and aligned to best practice
Essential Experience
- Extensive AWS and/or Azure cloud experience
- Strong DevOps and CI/CD implementation experience
- Expertise with GitLab, Artifactory and Jira
- Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code capability
- Strong Git and version control experience
- Experience working within Agile delivery teams
- Programming skills in Python, Golang and/or JavaScript
- Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience in production environments
- Experience administering both AWS and Azure environments
- HashiCorp Vault experience
- Experience implementing intelligent CI/CD automation or AI-driven operational tooling
- Previous Federal Government or large enterprise experience
- Australian Citizenship is mandatory
- Ability to obtain a Negative Vetting Level 1 (NV1) Security Clearance
- Ability to work in a hybrid environment with a minimum of three days onsite per week
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