DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer **Location:** Sydney – North Ryde **Working Model:** Hybrid – 3 days in the office **Employment:** Permanent The Opportunity We are working with an established Australian technology company that is making a significant investment into its DevOps and infrastructure capability. The business operates a substantial privately managed infrastructure environment and is currently going through a major modernisation program, with a strong focus on **Kubernetes, containerisation and automation** . This role will sit between traditional infrastructure and modern Platform/DevOps engineering. You’ll work across Linux and bare\-metal infrastructure while helping the business continue its move towards a more containerised, automated operating model. There is also significant investment going into **AI** , with the DevOps team responsible for building and operating the underlying infrastructure and platform capabilities that will allow AI to be introduced across the company’s product environment. What You’ll Be Working On * Building, administering and improving **Kubernetes environments** * Supporting the continued adoption of **containerised infrastructure** * Managing and improving **Linux\-based private cloud and bare\-metal environments** * Automating infrastructure, deployments and operational processes using **Python and Bash** * Building and improving **CI/CD pipelines** across GitLab, GitHub and Bitbucket * Using **Ansible and/or Puppet** for configuration management and infrastructure automation * Working across servers, networking, storage and virtualisation * Supporting complex, multi\-component application and platform deployments * Helping reduce reliance on traditional VMware\-based infrastructure * Improving deployment processes with the goal of moving from lengthy manual deployments towards highly automated delivery * Supporting the infrastructure and platform capabilities required for future **AI workloads and applications** * Taking ownership of technical challenges and contributing to the continued development of the wider DevOps function What We’re Looking For The ideal candidate will come from a **Senior DevOps, Platform Engineering, Linux Infrastructure, Infrastructure Automation or SRE** background. You’ll ideally bring: * Strong hands\-on **Kubernetes** experience within production environments * Experience administering Kubernetes itself, rather than solely deploying applications into managed clusters * **Rancher** experience would be highly regarded * Strong **Linux administration** experience * Exposure to **private cloud, bare\-metal or internally managed infrastructure** * Strong scripting and automation experience with **Python and/or Bash** * CI/CD experience, ideally across **GitLab** , GitHub or Bitbucket * Configuration management experience with **Ansible and/or Puppet** * Understanding of infrastructure across **servers, networking, storage and virtualisation** * Experience supporting complex production environments * Ability to troubleshoot across both infrastructure and application/platform layers * A strong automation mindset and desire to remove repetitive manual processes Who Will Do Well Here: The team values **technical aptitude, attitude and ownership** over someone simply ticking every technology box. You’ll suit the environment if you’re: * Hands\-on and technically curious * Comfortable taking ownership and working autonomously * Someone who naturally looks for opportunities to automate * Happy working across both modern and traditional infrastructure * Keen to learn technologies outside your immediate area of expertise * Collaborative and willing to contribute to a growing engineering team This is a strong opportunity for an engineer who enjoys working close to the infrastructure layer but wants to be heavily involved in the shift towards **Kubernetes, automation, modern DevOps practices and AI\-ready infrastructure** .