Associate DevOps Engineer

Headquartered in Melbourne since 2012, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Southern Cross Systems employs 840 people across engineering hubs in Melbourne and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

Position summary

This role opened up after a team member moved internally. You'll sit between development and operations, fixing broken pipelines, writing automation and keeping environments consistent. We are headquartered in Melbourne and have been hiring remotely since 2020. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in the US, with a local contract and salary paid in USD. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In this role you will

• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards.
• Participate in on-call and incident response.
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions.
• Create and maintain Docker base images and keep them patched.
• Enforce security baselines: CIS benchmarks, image scanning, least-privilege IAM.
• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection.
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts.

Qualifications

• 1+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role.
• Built at least one CI/CD pipeline from scratch.
• Scripting in Bash and Python.
• Understanding of observability tools and how to design useful alerts.
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management.
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)

Preferred

• Background in software development.
• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd.
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, CKA or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.

The base pay range for this position is $99,000 - $121,000 per year. Actual pay depends on experience, skills and location.

What we offer

• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner.
• Monthly internet allowance.
• Annual learning budget.
• 24 days paid time off.
• Performance bonus.

Southern Cross Systems is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Southern Cross Systems.