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DevOps Engineer
Open Universities Australia · Docklands, VIC, Australia
Docklands, VIC, AustraliaHybrid
Remuneration
Short-term incentives and not-for-profit salary packaging, including novated leasing
Location
Docklands, VIC, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The DevOps Engineer builds and operates platform services, APIs, and developer tooling that help product engineering teams build, test, deploy, and support software. The role combines TypeScript software development with AWS infrastructure management, improving delivery pipelines, observability, security, reliability, and cloud cost efficiency. It also explores AI-assisted development and coding agents to improve engineering workflows.
Benefits
Workation leave for up to 10 days per year12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary carersAdditional purchased leaveUp to six additional paid menstrual and menopausal wellbeing days per yearInclusive leave for cultural or personal eventsOne additional paid birthday leave day each yearDiscounted gym memberships and health insuranceAnnual flu vaccinationsPaid Calm subscriptionSubsidised study opportunities and study leaveLearning and professional development opportunities
Qualifications
- Experience building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software services
- DevOps mindset emphasizing shared ownership, automation, fast feedback, and continuous improvement
- Hands-on AWS experience with compute, storage, networking, identity, observability, and infrastructure as code
- Networking knowledge covering TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS, routing, subnets, firewalls, and load balancing
- Security-minded approach to engineering decisions
- Ability to turn unclear problems into practical steps and follow through
- Curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies
- Interest in AI-assisted development and coding agents
- Ability to build software in a modern programming language and willingness to become productive in TypeScript
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain platform services, APIs, developer tooling, and automation
- Work with product engineers to identify needs and remove delivery bottlenecks
- Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure through code
- Improve continuous integration, testing, deployment, and observability workflows
- Troubleshoot application, infrastructure, and networking issues and contribute to incident response
- Embed security through access controls, networking, secrets management, and dependency maintenance
- Create reusable tools, documentation, and self-service capabilities for operational work
- Evaluate AWS capabilities, AI tools, and coding agents for engineering improvements
- Identify cloud cost reductions without compromising reliability or security
Skills
AWSJavaScriptTypeScriptOpenTelemetryREST
Industry
Education
Relocation
No