As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving existing automation and integration solutions or creating new ones.
Join a remote and distributed team to help automate, maintain, monitor, secure, uplift and scale resilient government-grade infrastructure platforms for some of the largest open source Drupal CMS-hosted implementations throughout Australia.
As a DevOps Engineer, you will work closely and in collaboration with various teams in areas such as development, testing, infrastructure, and security. You will get a detailed overview of the client's environment, infrastructure and systems, as well as their utilisation, deployment, automation, testing and monitoring.
About Salsa Salsa Digital is a Melbourne-based agency with a 20+ year legacy in open source. Currently Salsa Digital is made up of approximately 60 Salsarians.
In more recent years, Salsa Digital has become a key contributor to helping governments become more open, more consolidated and more connected. Salsa Digital is entrusted by the Australian Government as the exclusive delivery partner for the next-generation GovCMS platform.
Salsa Digital is a values-driven agency with a strong open source and transparent ethos.
Key responsibilities The DevOps Engineer is expected to interface with three groups — the Salsa Digital project team, Salsa client teams such as the GovCMS and SDP programme stakeholders, and Salsa Leadership Team.
The key responsibilities include:
Ramping up within complex, enterprise-grade, technical environments quickly Determining DevOps opportunities via an understanding of present pain points, including lack of automation, inefficient technical solutions or too many technical barriers or complexity. Researching technical solution options to meet new integration and automation requirements. Documenting and presenting such options to different stakeholders. Analysing the technical requirements of platform changes or technical issues , and breaking them down into manageable units in the form of groomed agile stories/tickets Collaborating with other technical stakeholders to determine optimal technical solution pathways and producing appropriate documentation Building and releasing better technical solutions which assist users and stakeholders Being a go-to person for technical stakeholders to help explain technical approaches and general knowledge-share for DevOps technologies Escalation point for technical challenges - Escalate complex technical issues to Senior Dev Ops. Providing work estimates for planned changes/tickets Working with the Product Owner (platform) to help plan and communicate the product roadmap Maintaining knowledge of industry best practice DevOps tools, applications and solution approaches Building authentic open relationships with stakeholders - supporting a project/program culture which open communication, trust and respect Represent Salsa's strong open ethos and brand to establish new trusted relationships and nurture existing ones. Skills (must haves) The following skills, experience and behaviours are required to succeed in this role:
3+ years experience as DevOps Knowledge of digital web technologies, including application, DevOps, hosting and containerisation technologies (Kubernetes) Significant experience working on projects/programs using agile methodologies Ability to speak confidently on technical matters Exceptional communication with customer and internal managers – listening and providing answers Ability to build good working relationships with all program stakeholders Ability to gather and assimilate information Ability to adapt and prioritise Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems, issues and solutions A critical mass (at least 75% coverage) of the following specific technical skills are required:
CI (gitlab, circleci, github actions) AWX, Ansible Infrastructure as Code (terraform) Shell scripting (bash/sh/etc) Web-serving architectures (nginx/apache/varnish) CDN technologies (akamai, cloudflare, cloudfront, etc) Docker (docker-compose, image management) Observability (prometheus, grafana, mimir, loki, sumo logic, etc) Experience in PHP/CMS frameworks/platforms (Drupal/Wordpress/Laravel) Skills (highly desired) Working knowledge of Azure / Google cloud Solr Interested? Contact our People and Culture Lead Angela Rako on 03 9910 4839 or apply online using the form below.
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