In late 2020, as part of Busting Congestion for Agricultural Exporters the Trade Reform and Digital Trade Initiatives divisions were established to develop and deliver the vision and strategy for agricultural exports, and to coordinate the range of the export business and digital reform programs that are currently underway. At the heart of this reform package is the modernisation of export systems by building Digital Services to Take Farmers to Markets.

The Role:

The Department is building significant digital capability within the Congestion Busting Program. They seek a WebOps Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team to provide support to the complexities of the web-based applications and the systems that support them. This includes the deployment and oversight of the on-going operational requirements of the digital service and solutions being delivered.

Key responsibilities

• Work across multiple delivery teams to promote and enable DevOps practices.
• Deliver common infrastructure platforms and patterns for continuous delivery, automated deployments and robust monitoring.
• Build and operations culture, capability and processes within delivery teams to enable developers to effectively take responsibility for the operation of their services.
• Supports incident response, post-mortems and improvement
• Participate in multi-disciplinary team events as required

Skills & Experience

• In depth experience in operating high-volume web applications in a cloud environment
• Strong track record delivering self-service tools to enable teams to deploy and monitor their own applications
• Excellent capability in using configuration management tools like Puppet or Terraform
• Extensive experience working with continuous integration tools – CI/CD
• Solid experience of networking concepts like HTTP, TCP/IP and TLS
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Google Cloud, Azure
• Previous software engineering capability highly regarded
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practice
• Strong understanding of modern cloud-native architectures
• Collaborative team player
• Outcome focused with a solution first mindset