DevOps Engineer

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Job no:
505000

Work type:
Contract Full Time

Location:
Various

Categories:
IT/Technology

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
This position is all about building and operating the data platforms that power ABC's digital products. You'll work at the heart of ABC's digital transformation, ensuring our data services are reliable, scalable, and easy for teams to use. The role spans automation, infrastructure, and observability — enabling product, data, and analytics teams to deliver value faster and with confidence.

You'll collaborate closely with engineers and product teams across the ABC to design and maintain modern data pipelines, streaming services, and cloud infrastructure. By embedding best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response, you'll help shape the foundations that support millions of Australians connecting with ABC's digital content every day.

This is your chance to make a real difference in how data powers decision-making and experiences at the ABC, while working in a supportive, creative, and inclusive environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Design and deliver complex CI/CD systems powering ABC's digital products across web, mobile and streaming platforms
• Lead automation of infrastructure, testing and deployment using advanced DevOps practices
• Improve reliability and quality by embedding monitoring, reporting and fault handling into platforms
• Drive efficiency by automating processes and setting best-practice standards
• Create and maintain technical documentation and guidelines
• Collaborate with Agile teams, contributing to planning, reviews and successful project delivery
• Stay at the forefront of digital engineering technology and share knowledge across the team and wider business

About You

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent significant skills, knowledge and experience. Current knowledge of and a keen interest in the Internet and media industries.
• Demonstrated extensive experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products and automated code integration and deployment systems such as GitLab.
• Experience with data streaming, warehousing, and analytics platforms, with an understanding of how these systems connect to deliver business value.
• Experience with Kafka or other event streaming platforms is highly regarded.
• Familiarity with modern transformation tools such as DBT is a plus, even at a conceptual level.
• Strong proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation, and a mindset that automation is the default way of working.
• Experience with observability and reliability practices - monitoring, alerting, and learning from incidents are second nature to you.
• Excellent proficiency in at least one scripting language, with a focus on clean, maintainable code and strong documentation habits.
• Demonstrated use of third-party DevOps and collaboration tools such as Datadog, PagerDuty, Splunk, JIRA and Confluence.
• Highly advanced problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate, analyse and solve very complex technical problems.
• Highly advanced communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders and work effectively in a team environment.
• Previous experience working with Agile project management practices is desirable.
• A growth mindset - motivated to learn quickly, adapt to new challenges, and contribute ideas that continuously improve how we work.

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 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, Digital Talent Acquisition Lead via email

We respectfully request that Recruitment Agencies do not submit applications for this position.
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.

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Advertised:
23 Sep :00 AM AUS Eastern Standard Time

Applications close:
21 Oct 2025 5:00 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time