Senior DevOps Engineer
Cashrewards
Software Engineering
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Posted on Sep 27, 2024
Heyyyyy! We're Cashrewards, Australia’s most loved cashback platform.
Shoppers love us, but not just shoppers, our team think we’re pretty awesome too. So much so that they voted and now we’re a certified Great Place to Work. As they say, the proof is in the pudding so check out this role to see if you fancy a slice yourself.
About the role
We're looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team on a 12-month contract!
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be responsible for the operation and management of our cloud-based environments, working closely with the Engineering and Product teams to implement solutions and resolve issues.
You'll serve as the AWS subject matter expert, overseeing continuous build and deployment pipelines for both applications and infrastructure assets, while maintaining infrastructure-as-code assets. You'll enhance instrumentation and monitoring, manage development tools such as source control and CI/CD platforms, and oversee cloud database storage platforms.
You'll also ensure information security by refining policies and procedures, track cloud expenditure, propose cost reduction initiatives, and manage system access requests. Additionally, you'll provide strategic advice to improve our systems architecture, focusing on cloud capabilities, operations, and costs.
Your Focus
- Operation & management of our cloud-based environments
- Working closely with the Engineering and Product teams to assist in implementing solutions and solving problems
- Be the subject matter expert with respect to our AWS environment
- Implementation of continuous build & deployment pipelines for both application and infrastructure assets
- Be a go-to person for maintaining & deploying infrastructure-as-code assets
- Develop improved instrumentation and monitoring with our platforms to enable better issue identification & resolution
- Management of development tools such as source control, CI/CD platforms, IDE licensing, & other local development environment tool subscriptions
- Manage operations for cloud database storage platforms (both RDBMS & no-SQL)
- Stewardship & improvements of the policies & procedures to ensure information security when operating in the cloud
- Provide advice to improve our systems architecture with cloud capability, operations, & costs in mind
- Cloud expenditure tracking & management including proposing cost reduction initiatives
- Managing, monitoring, and fulfilling access management requests to our systems & services
About You
- Experience working with AWS cloud platform (and Azure is highly regarded),
- Deep understanding of fundamentals of infrastructure (Windows & Linux), networking (DNS, TCP/IP, etc), and automation
- Experience & knowledge of working in agile software development teams using concepts based on Scrum
- Familiarity with high availability web application & micro-service architectures and hosting platforms e.g. Kubernetes, IIS, etc.
- Familiarity with common web application infrastructure components such as CDNs, internet gateways, routing, and firewalls
- Understanding of web application fundamentals such as client vs server-side technologies, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- Great communication skills with a flexible & adaptable approach to designing solutions and sharing ideas
- Strong understanding of:
- Code repository management with Git
- CI/CD pipeline development e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, etc.
- Containerisation technologies e.g. Docker
- Automation using scripting (or other) technologies e.g. bash, shell, PowerShell
- Deployments using infrastructure-as-code CDK is required, CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM templates, etc beneficial
- Virtual machine management in a cloud environment e.g. EC2, Azure VM, etc.
- Deployment to container orchestration platforms e.g. Kubernetes, ECS Fargate, etc.
In the fast moving cashback category, Cashrewards has powered ahead of its rivals and taken the lead, serving over 2 million members with an enticing range of cashback offers from more than 2000 brand partners including Apple, Amazon, Myer, Adidas, Bonds, Target, Booking.com and The Iconic. As if that isn’t impressive enough, we’re fully Australian owned and operated, and backed by 1835i, one of Australia's leading venture funds. Plus, we support the Starlight Children's Foundation by donating 1% of all cash redeemed to the foundation.
Another cool thing, we're right smack-bang in the middle of Sydney CBD (next to The Galleries) so we're easy to get to.
There's lots more to love about working here, like:
- Flexible working
- Friday hours (finish at 3pm on Fridays)
- Double cashback
- Free access to Headspace
- Discounted fitness classes and wellness offering
- Birthday leave
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Ability to work up to 90 days a year from anywhere in the world
- Awesome people who you'll get to know at some of our awesome celebrations and social events
So if you’re keen to jump on board and help us steer this fine ship into the future, don’t let this opportunity pass you by. So jump in, forget FOMO. Join the Cashrewards team today.
Check out our careers page https://www.cashrewards.com.au/careers