DevOps Engineer

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

Design, implement and automate continuous integration and delivery services for digital products and services via the ABC’s web, mobile and streaming media platforms that align with ABC strategy and objectives.

Key Accountabilities

• Under broad direction, provide significant support to Digital Product teams by designing and implementing very complex delivery systems for the ABC’s digital services on web, mobile and streaming media platforms.
• Contribute significantly to the process of automating all aspects of the ABC’s digital platforms, including cloud infrastructure, testing and code deployment, using highly advanced automation skills.
• Continually improve system reliability and quality by integrating monitoring, reporting and fault handling into application platforms.
• Provide specialist advice and proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency by automating existing processes.
• Develop and maintain technical standards and support documentation.
• In collaboration 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.
• Maintain a highly advanced technical knowledge of Digital Engineering’s systems and services and share this information with 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 Bamboo or Jenkins.
• 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).
• Extensive experience 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.
• Extensive 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.
• 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.

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 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 nedved.jamie@abc.net.au  

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. 

For more information on working at the ABC visit abc.net.au/careers