Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Company

Peoplebank are a leading information technology talent consultancy that focuses on providing specialised IT consultants to Tier-1 clients in diverse industries like Banking/Financial Services, Retail, Telecommunications, and Government. Our consultants are engaged in a variety of cutting-edge projects throughout Australia.

About the Role

Our Federal Government Client is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (SAS Specialist).

This is a long-term contract role for 12 months with 1 x 12-month extension, located at our client's sites in ACT , Sydney and Brisbane with hybrid working arrangements.

Job Details:

The Principal DevOps Engineer (EL2) operates under broad direction to lead highly complex initiatives that drive quality outcomes across the company. This position requires a high level of autonomy and expertise, engaging in advanced problem-solving and issue management within the organization's core functions. The role will involve making strategic decisions and providing high-level advice and support to senior leadership.

The Principal DevOps Engineer will collaborate closely with key business stakeholders and our local full-stack team to support and enhance project development within the client. The role is also responsible for managing critical internal and external stakeholder relationships, representing, and negotiating on behalf of the company to promote the agency's objectives across various forums. The role is required to create and maintain SAS Visual Investigator data models, workflows, entities and rules to support investigative case management.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Leading the design, development, deployment, and support of the Agency's Cloud & Data Infrastructure and SAS Visual Investigator platform.
• Prioritising and managing the work queue to ensure timely delivery of key initiatives.
• Ensuring that all solutions adhere to integration best practices.
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Playing a key leadership role for all SAS resources, utilising an agile development framework.
• Engaging with stakeholders and SAS to define project requirements, set priorities, and deliver results, including releases and deployments across environments.
• (Note: Responsibilities may evolve in line with changing organizational priorities.)

Criteria

The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.

Essential criteria 1. Extensive hands-on experience with SAS Visual Investigator as well as AWS infrastructure and services, with proven ability to design, implement, and manage scalable cloud solutions.

2. Develop and customise SAS Visual Investigator data models, workflows, entities and rules to support investigative case management.

3. Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning and management. Build and optimize ETL pipelines to ingest structured / unstructured data into the SAS Visual Investigator platform.

4. Integrate external data sources and API's with SAS Visual Investigator for entity resolution, alert generation and case enrichment. Implement CI/CD pipelines and version control for SAS Projects and configuration files.

5. Ability to write and maintain moderately complex code across multiple programming languages, including Python, JavaScript, and Golang.

6. In-depth experience with containerization, cluster deployment, and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring efficient application delivery and management.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience with database deployment and administration, particularly with Postgres and MySQL, for efficient data management and performance optimization.

2. Proficiency in administering Azure infrastructure, expanding multi-cloud capabilities alongside AWS.

3. Monitor and troubleshoot system health, logs and performance using SAS tools.

4. Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault for securing sensitive data and managing secrets across cloud infrastructure

Due to security clearance requirements for this role, candidates must be Australian citizens and  ability to obtain  security clearance.

Apply now for immediate consideration or contact Archna Singh  on  quoting Job Reference: #

Please note:Only candidates that meet the above criteria will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in the position.