Devops Engineer

Description:

The Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) delivers a justice and community safety system that works to build a safer, fairer and stronger Victoria.
Data, Digital and Insights (DDI) focuses on meeting the departments data and digital needs by providing responsive and sustainable services focused on supporting departmental outcomes. The specialist groups within DDI consist of Technology Solutions and Evidence and Insights.
Technology Solutions explores and employs modern technology to enable the department's business to function via the use of modern, appropriate platforms, products and services.
Evidence and Insights is responsible for providing end-to-end evidence-based policy support to the Department of Justice and Community Safety, and the reporting of data and research to the Victorian public through the Crime Statistics Agency and the National Coronial Information System.
What will the role do?

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for the following:

• Providing expertise in the design and implementation of the Programs DevOps capabilities to instantiate the CI/CD architecture and infrastructure required.
• collaborating with cross platform teams and vendors to develop a DevOps capability
• ensuring effective management of everything from source code management to CI/CD pipelines with integrated test automation, deployment and release, bringing multiple teams and platforms together in a controlled and well managed DevOps pipeline.
• providing thought leadership and providing expert DevOps advice in accordance with best practices to deliver project / program outcomes and continuous improvement

.
What skills should a DevOps Engineer have?

As our ideal candidate, you will have:

• Strong experience with the core AWS services (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM) and server less approaches using AWS Lambda to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution.
• Strong experience in orchestration, CI/CD and configuration management tools.
• Strong experience working with Kubernetes and other Container technologies like Docker
• Experience with Linux/Unix, windows administration, system monitoring tools (e.g. Splunk etc.)
• Relevant vocation qualifications and certifications would be highly regarded
• Relevant tertiary qualification is desirable