DevOps Engineer

• DevOps Engineer with AWS & API experience required
• Permanent Position
• Hybrid work environment with a great culture 

Established in 1988 Rest is one of Australias largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super theyre more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours we want to Be Daring Keep it Simple Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for collaborating with Software Engineers in the design implementation and support of DevOps capabilities for the API platforms with some work in the digital space. They will be instrumental in developing automated and integrated capabilities for monitoring and keeping currency of the capabilities run in the platforms.

The DevOps Engineer will also be an AWS platform subject matter expert within the Rest Engineering team. They will be embedded in all AWS platform related projects to design implement and support cloud architecture needed to deliver engineering capabilities.

• Develop and standardise the usage of automation to provision and manage cloud resources and environments within the Digital (CMS) and API Platforms using AWS CDK CloudFormation scripting or other tools.

• Review our current CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment and updates to AWS resources and define and implement best practices in our CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks in the Platforms.
• Work alongside Solution Architects and other technical stakeholders to design and architect scalable reliable and secure cloud solutions using native AWS services (S3 ECS EC2 RDS Dynamo etc.).
• Review and enforce practices from our vendor DevOps resources to develop infrastructure as code using tools like AWS CloudFormation or CDK to automate resource provisioning.
• Own the BCP and DR capabilities within the AWS domain and work collaboratively with the business and vendors to schedule and conduct annual DR tests for all AWS based infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues related to AWS infrastructure networking and applications. Provide technical support to development teams and stakeholders troubleshooting and resolving issues promptly.
• Integrate security controls into the CI/CD pipeline to safeguard the software development process. This could involve implementing Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) or other security tools within the pipeline.
• Set up proactive monitoring and alerting systems to detect anomalies performance degradation and potential failures. Implement timely alerts to notify teams about issues requiring attention.
• Implement and manage redundant systems load balancers and failover mechanisms to ensure continuous availability. Monitor the health of redundant components and automatically switch traffic to healthy resources.
• Document all changes made to the CI/CD pipeline ensuring other team members can understand and follow the new processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers operations and security teams to drive successful cloud initiatives.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Technology Engineering or a related field; or a proven track record of relevant industry experience.
• Cloud-specific certifications are highly valuable (AWS Solution Architect Developer SysOps etc.).

Required experience understanding or credentials including:

• Junior to mid-level of relevant experience in cloud architecture cloud operations DevOps or related roles is required. 
• Strong record of delivering observable cloud solutions from inception to production working hands-on throughout the process; A strong and in-depth understanding of cloud CI/CD practices and modern developmentpractices. 
• AWS Services - including RDS DMS DynamoDB EC2 SQS SNS CloudWatch Lambda functions and IAM to name a few; Cloud networking such as VPC NACL Security Group Firewalls LBs Transit Gateway VPC VPN. 
• Development of Infrastructure As Code frameworks and automation such as Terraform AWS CDK Cloud Formation Ansible. 
• Application deployment and release management
• Source-code repositories and CI/CD pipelines such as Gitlab Github GitHub Actions. 
• Application configuration and secrets management. 
• Application deployment patterns - web applications serverless containers. 
• Languages - Python Typescript / Javascript Shell. 
• Designing and managing resilient and recoverable cloud infrastructure with 3 nines availability. 
• Experience in observability for infrastructure applications and cloud services with tools such as Dynatrace Datadog PagerDuty etc. 
• Tools - Atlassian Jira Confluence Github. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 
• Knowledgeable in multiple programming languages and an expert in some 
• Understanding of the cloud infrastructure level - VPCs networks security Linux 
• Passionate about quality and correctness with a drive to automate as much as possible 
• Experience with development or the administration of Kubernetes or Serverless frameworks

Additional Information :

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Linkedin Learning 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rests values and behaviours) 
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks 

If you share our values believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity equity and inclusion - where people feel welcome safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages cultural backgrounds faiths gender identities sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability neurodiverse individuals Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time