Description

A Federal Government digital agency is seeking an experience Site Reliability Engineer to work in a mulidisciplinary team to update, build and maintain the agency's Cloud.gov.au platform.

Successful candidate will:

• build automation and features to assist users (gov't developers & delivery teams) create services for the Australian public.
• hands on technical however will also communicate with users and stakeholders.
• work in a team that uses Agile practices and will spike ideas to solve problesm using modern technologies & tools.

Your main skills and experience

• Cloud technologies (eg AWS, Azure or OpenStack).
• In container and PaaS systems (Cloud Foundry, Docker or Kubernetes).
• Internet plumbing (TCP/IP, routing, HTTP, CDNs, TLS, DNS, Identity services, PKI).
• With CI/CD practices and tooling (git, GitHub, GitLab, concourse-ci, jenkins).
• With Infrastructure as code tooling and automation (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, etc).
• Building and maintaining logging and monitoring tools (ELK, graylog, prometheus, PagerDuty).
• Development Experience (BASH, Ruby, Python or Golang).
• Knowledge of the Linux Operating System.
• A cool, methodical approach to troubleshooting and debugging problems, especially during stressful periods of downtime.
• Working and contributing to open source projects. Contributions beyond code are highly valued.

Nice if you have

• A strong working knowledge of Identity service technologies (OAuth, OpenID and SAML)
• Familiarity with DTA processes and the Digital Service Standard

For you to qualify

• Australian Citizen.
• Able to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance.
• Amenable for a 6 month contract and 6 months extension.
• Can start employment on July 15 (estimate date).
• Can work full time in Canberra ACT or Surrey Hills NSW site. May consider full-time offsite candidates within Australia however, travel to Canberra or Sydney once every 2 months.