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. 

About the Role (your why)

The Senior DevOps Engineer role is responsible for guiding and implementing automation initiatives, dealing with software development, operations and services. This role involves performing hands-on automation tasks, in areas including software development, operations, and services. The Senior DevOps Engineer is responsible for improving communication, collaboration and integration between software developers and IT operations personnel.

What you’ll do 

• Delivering an “automation first” culture to enhance customer experience and to ensure continued relevance and financial viability.
• Enhancing the Datacom managed services solutions by applying an ‘automate where possible’ approach.
• Uplifting automation and delivery maturity across Datacom leveraging agile/DevOps methodologies.
• Actively identify and support the automation of labour-intensive repetitive tasks using the abovementioned Datacom automation frameworks.
• Contributing to automation roadmaps in conjunction with the Architecture, Tools, Automation and Planning group guidelines and standards and execute within identified milestones.
• Influencing architectural decisions, implementing, and managing core infrastructure, developing internal tools, and looking to automate as many processes as possible.
• Working with, leading, and guiding other engineers in the execution of uplifts across build engineering, release engineering, configuration management and environment management practices.
• Performing hands-on automation tasks to treat infrastructure as code.
• Assisting engineers to automate the process of testing various software and minimize errors.
• Participating in and/or leading code and design reviews.
• Providing execution of activities related to infrastructure, security, continuous integration, continuous deployment, IT operations and metrics.
• Collaborating with other System Administrators, Developers, Testers, Architects and Business Analysts.
• Collaborating with operations and development teams to mitigate the risks associated with the product life-cycle and improve the overall scalability and reliability of the application.

What you’ll bring  

• Knowledge of the outsourced IT services market and infrastructure project requirements.
• Strong knowledge of various software and performance monitoring techniques.
• Strong financial management practices with a clear understanding of the relationship between costs, utilisation, and project revenue.
• Working knowledge of common systems monitoring and alerting tools.
• Working knowledge of common build, release, and deployment tools.
• Knowledge of competing product offerings.
• Experience promoting the benefits of implementing DevOps methodologies in an organization and making sure that the IT professionals are well-trained to implement these changes.
• Experience in maintaining the end-toend production chain for smooth deliveries.
• Experience using automation tools.
• Experience with variety of programming and scripting languages.
• Proven experience with modern build, release, and development tools Orchestration expertise in provisioning, private and public cloud, preferably with experience in AWS and Azure automation.
• Ability to frequently interact and network with a variety of stakeholders and team members within own area of expertise.
• Proficient with modern DevOps Tools and utilities.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong presentation and report writing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong consultative and planning skills.
• Excellent customer relationship building and management skills.
• Strong influencing and persuasive ability.
• Ability to escalate with a solution focus.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and align them with client business goals and objectives.

Why join us here at 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.