Application Systems Engineer

• Make an impact bringing your ideas and solving complex problems in a collaborative, supportive team
• Work across multiple leading property brands impacting thousands of users
• Permanent full time role based in Richmond

We're REA
With bold and ambitious goals, REA Group  is changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you're at on your property journey, we're here to help with every step - whether that's finding or financing your next home.

Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we're proud to have been named in Australia's "Top 5" Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.

Where the team fits in

The Enterprise Applications Team fits within our Global Technology Group, supporting and empowering our people with the best technology to get the job done. It's our ambition to become the #1 Tech Company. This hands-on role has been created to deliver and improve configured SaaS platforms, tools, automation and workflows to empower our REA staff to win.

What the role is all about

As an Application Systems Engineer you will be responsible for designing, improving, and maintaining our Enterprise systems.  You'll become an integral part of an agile team, providing your expertise of systems engineering & design, operational work practices, fault finding and incident management. You will be expected to implement sustainable solutions in a collaborative and creative work environment to support our many lines of business.

• Ensuring the availability and performance of our systems.
• Work with the rest of the team to continuously improve the systems we provide.
• Provide help and advice to users of those systems.
• Help us identify common problems within Enterprise Tech, and design simple solutions.

Who we're looking for

• Demonstrated experience building, integrating, and maintaining SaaS solutions and tooling (e.g., Jira Service Management and other Atlassian tools), including lifecycle management and vendor integrations.
• Experience with administrating and integrating a variety of SaaS based systems such as Microsoft 365, Okta, Zoom, PagerDuty and Slack into a corporate environment.
• Maintain and uplift a variety of systems using best practice (security, testing, automation, and monitoring).
• Capacity to operate both independently, using initiative and self-direction, and as a team member to produce consistently high-quality work.
• Looks at tricky situations through a solutions-focused lens.
• Works productively in a fast paced and agile environment.

Desirable skills

• Experience in automation and workflows
• Python programming experience.
• AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, Step functions etc).
• Experience developing in a Cloud environment (AWS preferred). 
• DevOps experience in infrastructure automation, cloud services and tooling.
• Curiosity – an ability to tinker with technology in a sandbox or test environment and keep learning.
• Infrastructure experience administrating both cloud and on-premises office IT systems and AV systems.
• Networking experience on distributed routing, switching, firewall and wireless systems (Palo Alto, Arista, & Cisco).
• Experience in securely deploying systems (Windows/Linux) to AWS infrastructure from CI/CD pipelines.

The REA experience

The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we'll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow.

Some of our Perks & Benefits include: 

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working
• Flexible leave options including, birthday leave and purchase additional leave
• Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers
• Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity
• Hackdays so you can bring your big ideas to life  

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion  

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking. If you've got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.

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