DevOps Engineeer - Melbourne

Job Description

Introduction
As an Application Developer, you will lead IBM into the future by translating system requirements into the design and development of customized systems in an agile environment. The success of IBM is in your hands as you transform vital business needs into code and drive innovation. Your work will power IBM and its clients globally, collaborating and integrating code into enterprise systems. You will have access to the latest education, tools and technology, and a limitless career path with the world’s technology leader. Come to IBM and make a global impact!
Your Role and Responsibilities
DevOps Engineer - Melbourne
IBM is the largest technology and consulting employer in the world, serving clients in 170 countries. In this new era of Cognitive Business, IBM is helping to reshape industries by bringing together our expertise in Cloud, Analytics, Security, Mobile, and the Internet of Things. We are changing how we create. How we collaborate. How we analyse. How we engage. IBM is a leader in this global transformation so there is no better place to launch your career.
Role:
The DevOps Engineer is responsible for developing and enhancing the cloud infrastructure platform used by our teams to support the build, deployment and execution of projects and application environments.
The purpose is to build and maintain a shared set of products as a managed service to the Engineering and development teams. The ultimate goal of the role is to build and support services and capabilities to successfully scale our production systems and infrastructure in the cloud to support our customer applications and environments.
Desired Attributes and Skills:

• A passion for technology and business.
• The ability to understand and assimilate different points of view.
• A love of working with people in a team-focused environment.
• Have prior exposure Agile, lean and DevOps principles and practices
• Natural leadership skills and the ability to thrive in a collaborative culture.
• The willingness to take ownership of challenging tasks, even beyond your initial scope of responsibility.
• The flexibility to travel to client locations

Education and Experience:

• AWS and other public cloud platforms
• Automated deployment tools and languages
• Configuration management technologies
• Experience using Source Code Management systems. TFS experience preferred
• CI/CD pipelines configuration and management
• AWS Cloud Formation and/or Terraform
• Configuration management tools - Puppet, Chef, Ansible and/or Salt.
• Scripting Languages: Ruby, Python and/or Bash as appropriate
• Web services and databases: Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Postgres or MySQL, MS SQL
• Continuous integration and delivery: VSTS/Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Jenkins, Travis
• Network design and architecture (VPC, IGW, subnets, peering, dynamic routing)
• Windows administration and automation
• Other virtualization and cloud platforms including VMWare, KVM or Azure

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a passion for automation and optimization of cloud infrastructure and common services to reduce the cost of deployments and change, while improving scalability and resilience to failure.
• Drive by example the uplift of software quality and security standards across all teams.
• Train and coach engineers in cloud platform technologies and processes to disseminate knowledge and skills across both engineering and site teams.
• Understand and be sympathetic to the needs of software and system engineers through team rotations, pairing and sharing responsibilities including on-call support, software builds and deployments.
• Foster a culture of trust and accountability.
• Be an evangelist for change by clearly communicating the vision and the path from current to future state, measuring progress and outcomes along the way.
• Experience in hybrid cloud infrastructure and linking client environments with AWS using DirectConnect and VPN
• Create new services to help IT/Ops teams with problem solving and infrastructure solution design

Mandatory Requirement:

1. Be an Australian citizen
2. Been resident in Australia for the past 5 years (i.e., can't have moved to Australia only 4 or 4.5 years ago)
3. Not spent greater than 12 months cumulative out of Australia during the past 5 years
4. Satisfy an AU Gov client Pre-Engagement Integrity Check
5. Be eligible to obtain an AGSVA baseline security clearance or already have AGSVA baseline security clearance

Required Technical and Professional Expertise
As above.
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
As above.
About Business Unit
IBM Services is a team of business, strategy and technology consultants that design, build, and run foundational systems and services that is the backbone of the world's economy. IBM Services partners with the world's leading companies in over 170 countries to build smarter businesses by reimagining and reinventing through technology, with its outcome-focused methodologies, industry-leading portfolio and world class research and operations expertise leading to results-driven innovation and enduring excellence.
Your Life @ IBM
What matters to you when you’re looking for your next career challenge?
Maybe you want to get involved in work that really changes the world? What about somewhere with incredible and diverse career and development opportunities – where you can truly discover your passion? Are you looking for a culture of openness, collaboration and trust – where everyone has a voice? What about all of these? If so, then IBM could be your next career challenge. Join us, not to do something better, but to attempt things you never thought possible.
Impact. Inclusion. Infinite Experiences. Do your best work ever.
About IBM
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Location Statement
For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.
Being You @ IBM
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.