Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote

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

Our team is growing and we are hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote. The Infrastructure team supports about 40 developers. We need someone to make deploys faster and less scary. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. Our team works from several countries. We engage team members in Bangladesh as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. You will need some overlap with Australian Eastern time in the mornings. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

In this role you will

• Manage cloud infrastructure with Terraform, including modules, remote state and drift detection
• Document runbooks and infrastructure standards
• Support developers with environment issues, failed builds and deployment questions
• Automate server configuration with Ansible
• Run Kubernetes clusters on EKS, AKS or GKE and maintain Helm charts
• Participate in on-call and incident response
• Implement blue-green and canary deployments
• Script repetitive tasks in Bash, Python or PowerShell

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, systems engineering or a related infrastructure role
• Solid Linux administration and networking basics (DNS, load balancers, TLS)
• Scripting in Bash and Python
• Experience running containers with Docker and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP in production
• Familiarity with Git branching strategies and release management

Preferred qualifications

• Service meshes like Istio or Linkerd
• Background in software development

Rate: $1,450 - $1,750 per month

Pay and benefits

• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise
• Monthly internet allowance
• Long-term engagement

Please submit your CV in English.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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