Linux Platform DevOps Specialist

**About HCF**

At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we’ve been putting our members and their health first. As Australia’s largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover over 1.7 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.

**About the role**

**Responsibilities**:

- Engage with business users, technical analysts, solution architects and developers to understand needs and requirements for projects and support enterprise CI/CD initiative and tasks.
- Assist in the management and implementation of new systems/infrastructure throughout the planning, config, build, test & deployment phases.
- Identify areas for automation when working with existing/new Linux based systems and products.
- Maintain existing integration and delivery pipelines and ensure processes are standardised and reused.
- Maintain, configure, and develop environments in support of development and production. This ranges from greenfield to full stack brownfield environments.
- Reduce the time it takes to build, deploy, and configure software to all environments.
- Joint owner of all development and release tooling, processes, and architecture.
- Support existing Linux Application/Systems from a deployment and operations perspective to ensure operational continuity.
- Collaborate with the test team to continue improving testing methods, practices, and capabilities.
- Work with development and operations teams to offer automation as a service across domains, products, and services.
- Conducts unit testing, support during system testing and implementation activities for difficult and complex programs.
- Challenge existing processes and practices to continuously drive efficiencies and technology delivery performance.

**About you**:
To be successful in the role you will have the following:

- The position requires appropriate tertiary qualifications and experience in DevOps & Automation.
- Minimum 3 years DevOps and Linux experience.
- Experience with CI/CD frameworks. Azure DevOps is preferred.
- Proven Linux administration experience. Experience with Redhat/Suse Linux is advantageous.
- Strong Linux scripting experience. Experience across shells e.g. Bash,sh,ksh,csh is welcomed.
- Experience in DevOps programming and scripting languages e.g., Golang, Bash, Perl, Python.
- Proven experience in working with hosting platforms such as AWS, Azure and Vmware.
- Experience with DevOps orchestration and automation tools. Experience in Terraform, Ansible is advantageous.
- Familiarisation with containerisation. Docker or Kubernetes experience is advantageous.
- Proven experience of deployment & release management
- Proven problem solving, including investigation, analysis, and solution implementation.
- Extensive knowledge of SDLC and CICD processes
- Solid understanding of testing environments and migration paths
- Experience in understanding the needs from technical as well as end user perspective.
- Experience in developing and maintaining automated test frameworks and scripts.
- Experience in Agile development methodology/Scrum is preferred.
- Experience with full lifecycle of a project including business & Customer requirement gathering, workshop facilitation throughout the successful delivery of each piece of work.
- Demonstrated track record of delivering excellent and high-quality technical documentations and drawings.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a focus on effective client relationships
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Excellent attention to details

**Benefits**
- Up to 50% discount on health cover, pet & travel & general insurance
- Flexible working arrangements including the opportunity to work from Home (WFH), hybrid or from our modern Sydney offices
- 18 weeks parental leave for all new parents
- Family & Friends day
- Organisational wide Recognition & Rewards program
- Health & Wellbeing Initiatives

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