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DevOps Engineering Specialist
University of Newcastle · Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Callaghan, NSW, AustraliaFull timeExp: 4+ yrs107,268-120,677 AUD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
$107,268–$120,677 per year plus superannuation; 17% superannuation and salary packaging
Location
Callaghan, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Unable to offer visa sponsorship; applicants must have Australian residency or a valid work permit.
Job summary
The DevOps Engineering Specialist develops and improves enterprise platforms and delivery practices supporting digital services in a higher education environment. The role builds software and infrastructure delivery toolsets, advances AI-assisted development, CI/CD, automation, observability and infrastructure-as-code, and troubleshoots complex platform issues. It also supports secure platform operations and mentors team members across a technology stack including AWS, GitHub, ServiceNow, Dynamics 365, Okta, SailPoint, Microsoft Fabric and MuleSoft.
Benefits
Salary packagingAdditional university holidaysPersonal and parental leaveAnnual leave loadingPurchased leave schemeDiscounts on private health insurance, gym memberships, software and travelWellbeing programsFlexible working arrangements
Qualifications
- At least 4 years of experience designing, building and improving scalable enterprise systems in complex environments.
- Experience applying DevOps practices, including automation, observability, alerting, infrastructure as code, configuration management and deployment tooling.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex scalability and performance issues.
- IT service management experience across incident, problem, change, release and service-level management.
- Ability to mentor team members and work effectively with multiple stakeholders.
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork and communication skills.
- Knowledge of workplace obligations and experience supporting a safe, healthy, equitable, diverse and respectful workplace.
Responsibilities
- Develop and deploy software, infrastructure and toolsets for building, testing and releasing enterprise solutions.
- Build and develop platform pipelines.
- Improve AI-assisted development, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Analyse, debug and troubleshoot incidents affecting engineering and solution delivery.
- Design, manage and monitor systems and platforms.
- Maintain platform health through maintenance, upgrades, secure coding and compliance with security policies.
- Mentor DevOps team members and support capability development.
- Collaborate with technical teams, business stakeholders, managed-service partners and vendors.
Skills
AWSConfluenceGitHubJiraOktaServiceNow
Work schedule
35-hour work week
Industry
Higher education
Contract length
Continuing position
Relocation
No