Senior DevOps Engineer

Our Why

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.

The Nuts and Bolts

We have over 6,500 people across our global offices, and generate an annual revenue of over $1.49 billion, this makes us one of Australasia's largest professional IT services companies. We have extensive expertise in operating data centres, providing IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations. With this comes a long list of significant clients Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We are local at heart, yet world-class in capability.

Our team

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.

About the Role

This Senior DevOps Engineer role is responsible for bridging the gap between traditional infrastructure support and DevOps. They will be guiding and implementing automation initiatives, operations and services. The role involves performing hands-on automation tasks in a range of areas. The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for improving processes, collaboration and integration between our internal operational teams.

What you’ll do

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 automation products.

You will be involved in (but not limited to):

• Developing, reviewing and implementing CI/CD principles including containerisation
• Establishing and maintaining operational excellence with automation across a number of technologies and areas, including:
• Operating System deployment, configuration, and security hardening
• Installation and configuration of application middleware platforms
• Deployment to Azure and other cloud environments
• 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; maintaining and monitoring solutions to ensure system reliability and performance, and backup and reporting
• Stakeholder engagement through technical collaboration and solution design.

What you’ll bring

Key Skill and experience include:

• 5+ years of combined experience in application management, development and DevOps
• A detailed understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts, and experience with full stack automation including Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Extensive knowledge and experience of Windows Server, Azure, M365
• Extensive knowledge and experience across the full Infrastructure Technology stack (Networks, Server, Databases, Endpoints, etc)
• Knowledge of industry standards , such as ITIL, ISO27001, Zero Trust, etc
• Expertise in configuration management including CI/CD pipelining
• Expertise in automation and scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc)
• Ability to adapt to rapid, iterative change
• Proven ability to mentor and support team members
• Ability to develop and improve operational practices and procedures
• Excellent communication skills

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.

Why Datacom?

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment. We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities. We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.

If you would like to know more and this sounds like you. Please apply online today!