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Senior DevOps Engineer - Contract/Perm

Melbourne, Melbourne Region💼 Contract🗓 2026-05-20 → 2026-08-09

Core

Lead the design, implementation, and optimisation of enterprise DevOps practices, cloud automation frameworks, and platform engineering capabilities to drive automation-first, cloud-native engineering approaches.

Role type

Senior IC DevOps Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Enterprise CI/CD pipelines, reusable Infrastructure-as-Code solutions, cloud governance frameworks, and observability initiatives.

Domain

Cloud-native engineering, DevSecOps, and large-scale ICT environments.

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

CI/CD pipeline design, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, YAML), cloud governance, observability (monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing), FinOps, container platforms, microservices deployment, technical mentorship, complex infrastructure troubleshooting.

Preferred skills

Enterprise transformation leadership, agile delivery partnership, operational resilience planning, disaster recovery planning.

Technologies

Terraform, Ansible, YAML, cloud-native tooling, container platforms, microservices.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of enterprise CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation frameworks; Architect and deliver reusable Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions; Drive adoption of DevOps, DevSecOps, and automation-first practices; Implement cloud governance frameworks including security controls; Lead observability initiatives; Optimise cloud usage and cost efficiency; Support container platforms and microservices deployments; Mentor engineers across DevOps tooling; Lead troubleshooting of complex infrastructure issues; Contribute to operational governance and risk management; Support high availability and disaster recovery planning.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities.

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