AWS DevOps Engineer

Job no: 505058

Work type: Ongoing Full Time

Location: Various

Categories: IT/Technology

• Schedule A, Band 7
• Ongoing, full-time role
• Open to internal and external applicants

ABOUT THE ABC

The ABC is the nation's most trusted and independent source of Australian conversations, culture, and stories. With over 4,000 employees from diverse backgrounds across over 50 locations around Australia and overseas, we are proud to create, curate and deliver high-quality content that informs, educates and entertains Australian communities.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Excellent opportunity for an experienced Mid-Level DevOps Engineer to join and support the ABC's digital product teams by designing, implementing and automating continuous integration and delivery systems for digital services on web, mobile and streaming media. Working within a cross-disciplinary team, you will collaborate closely with platform architects, product managers, developers and test engineers who value learning and knowledge sharing about best practices.

Reporting to the Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:  

• Automate all aspects of the ABC's digital platforms, including cloud infrastructure, testing and code deployment.
• Improve system reliability and quality by integrating monitoring, reporting and fault handling into application platforms. Provide specialist advice and identify opportunities to improve efficiency by automating existing processes.
• Maintain a highly advanced technical knowledge of Digital Engineering's systems and services. Assist in the development and maintenance of technical standards and support documentation.
• Collaborate with Agile teams; participate in planning and review meetings and contribute significantly to the management of projects to ensure project deliverables are completed within agreed timeframes. 

ABOUT YOU 

• Demonstrated extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and automated code integration and deployment systems such as Bamboo or Jenkins.
• Solid experience in the development of efficient and repeatable Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment services for building and deploying software. Extensive experience developing infrastructure as code and supporting documentation for processes and standards.
• Extensive experience with Linux and open-source web software stacks (LAMP or equivalent); and excellent proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python/Ruby/Perl/BASH).
• Well versed with automated configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible.
• Extensive experience with using common third-party DevOps tools such as Datadog, New Relic, PagerDuty, JIRA and Confluence.
• Experience supporting and managing products delivered by CDN services such as Akamai or CloudFront.
• Highly advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate, analyse and solve very complex technical problems.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders and work effectively in a team environment. 

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?

Come and join the vibrant Digital Product department in the ABC. Our mission is to enable ABC's digital future, where ABC transitions from a traditional broadcaster to Australia's most trusted and valued digital media organisation. Through harnessing our talents in digital, collaborating with our partners and delivering beyond expectations, we ensure the ABC not just remains relevant but thrives.

As a group of product and platform teams, we develop and maintain the ABC's audience facing digital products across mobile, connected TV, desktop, and smart speakers. Whether it is staying informed of the latest breaking news, bringing some great TV on iview, streaming the Hottest 100 on the triple j app and website, or entertaining the kids with our ABC Kids app - the ABC's Digital Product offerings are some of Australia's most loved and most used platforms.

Your work will be appreciated by millions of audiences across Australia. We are an AWS shop; you will have the opportunity to work on the latest and greatest cloud technology. You will have the chance to contribute to the solution architecture of our systems. We are an open and cohesive team where your voice will not get lost. You can get a sneak peek into our product engineering world through our blog:  

We are committed to career development and invest in our people to grow and become leaders in their fields. Everyone in the Digital Product department has a designated budget for training and development. We believe in flexible approaches to working and building self-organising and collaborative teams that offer friendly and supportive environments in which all team members can strive and grow.

For further information on this position please contact Jamie Nedved, Recruitment Lead via email   

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In line with our focus on diversity, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTIQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce

For more information on inclusive employee networks within the ABC please refer to Life Page on ABC LinkedIn. 

For more information on working at the ABC visit