DevOps Engineer - AWS

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to join our Sydney-based team on a permanent basis. The position demands expertise in cloud computing, deployment automation, and maintaining production systems within regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities and Expertise

• Deliver comprehensive DevOps and platform engineering solutions with a minimum of nine years of relevant experience.
• Handle AWS cloud services including EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, and RDS/Aurora proficiently.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and manage release orchestration using GitLab SaaS.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code via Terraform and manage configurations with tools such as Ansible.
• Administer Linux environments and write shell scripts using Bash and Python for system automation and management.
• Support mission-critical applications ensuring reliability and compliance within regulated settings.
• Manage deployment methodologies, change control processes, environment setup, and release governance effectively.
• Establish monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks coupled with incident handling mechanisms.
• Diagnose and resolve complex issues spanning application layers, databases, infrastructure, and network components.
• Utilize secrets management solutions like HashiCorp Vault to safeguard credentials and sensitive data.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams including Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations, Security, and Architecture to achieve unified objectives.

Preferable Additional Skills

• Experience with capital markets platforms such as Calypso or trading, clearing, collateral, and risk management systems.
• Familiarity with database migrations from Oracle to Aurora PostgreSQL.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration along with cloud-native deployment approaches.
• Exposure to observability platforms including OpenTelemetry, Grafana, ELK stack, and Splunk.
• Experience performing database automation, managing schema migrations with Liquibase, and employing configuration management for databases.
• Understanding of financial services infrastructure and regulated technology environments.
• Involvement with test automation and quality engineering rooted in DevOps principles.
• Appreciation of ITIL frameworks encompassing Incident, Problem, Change, and Release Management processes.
• Proven ability contributing to large scale cloud migration and platform modernization projects.

Core Technologies and Tools

• Cloud Platforms: AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, Aurora PostgreSQL, VPC, CloudWatch.
• DevOps Tools: GitLab SaaS, Terraform, Ansible, HashiCorp Vault, Liquibase.
• Programming/Scripting: Python, Bash, SQL.
• Monitoring: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Splunk, ELK, Grafana.
• Database Systems: Aurora PostgreSQL, Oracle.
• Version Control: Git, GitLab.
• Operating Systems: Linux and Unix environments.
• Financial Systems (preferred): Calypso, Clearing, Collateral Management, Capital Markets platforms.