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Senior Specialist DevOps Engineer
Rio Tinto · Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaFull timeOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive base salary, annual incentive program, subsidised private health insurance, share ownership plan, company-provided insurance, salary sacrifice and packaging options, career development and education assistance, wellbeing support, leave, and employee discounts
Location
Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer designs, builds, and operates secure, scalable cloud platform capabilities that support data, analytics, and AI workloads. The role improves developer experience, reliability, and deployment performance through Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Terraform, GitHub, automation, observability, and self-service platform services, while partnering across technical teams to support adoption and secure-by-design practices.
Benefits
Annual incentive programSubsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate familyShare ownership planCompany-provided insurance coverSalary sacrifice and salary packaging optionsCareer development and education assistanceFamily-friendly health and medical wellbeing supportAnnual, parental, sick, and cultural leaveEmployee discounts
Qualifications
- Commitment to personal and team safety
- Strong platform engineering and DevOps capability, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, release automation, and cloud solution design
- Experience designing, operating, and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms and production environments in Azure or AWS
- Experience supporting data, analytics, or AI platforms and improving reliability, automation, and developer experience
- Hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code tooling, source control such as GitHub, containerisation, monitoring and observability, and security and identity controls
- Ability to translate complex platform needs into practical outcomes and work across technical and business teams to support adoption, documentation, and service excellence
- Experience with Databricks, Lakehouse platforms, machine learning infrastructure, or AI/ML platform operations is helpful
- Experience with Foundry or related enterprise data platforms is helpful
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable platform services for cloud-based data, analytics, and AI workloads
- Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and release automation using tools such as Terraform and GitHub
- Create reusable self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams
- Improve platform reliability, observability, deployment performance, and operational efficiency through monitoring and automation
- Investigate and resolve complex platform incidents and service issues
- Embed secure-by-design controls, identity and access management, governance standards, and maintainable engineering patterns
- Partner with architecture, cloud, cybersecurity, data, and delivery teams to achieve platform outcomes and support adoption
- Identify opportunities to improve reliability, security, cost optimisation, and engineering quality
Skills
AWSAzureDatabricksGCPGitHubIAMTerraformGit
Certifications
Professional cloud certification in Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud
Degrees
Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent
Industry
Mining and materials
Relocation
No