About Campfire

We humanise technology.

We believe technology should be seamless and effortless, inspire, empower, and unite people. A successful technology solution “just works” – for the user and the provider behind the scenes. We plan, research and deliver human-centric solutions that are easy to navigate, meaningful and intuitive.

About the role

Campfire is recruiting for a DevOps Engineer to join our exceptional team working on a government client site based in Perth, Western Australia. The successful applicant will play a key role in optimising, automating, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure. In this role, you will collaborate closely with software developers, system administrators, and security teams to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our applications and infrastructure.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for implementing CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud environments, and ensuring seamless deployment processes. If you are passionate about automation, cloud technologies, and improving software delivery, we’d love to hear from you

Skills and experience:

• Excellent knowledge of Unix or Linux (any flavour: Red Hat, Debian, Solaris, etc.)
• Excellent command line experience: bash, ssh
• Linux configuration: environment variables, /etc/*, cron, systemd, yum/dnf/apt
• Experience of hosting Java applications on Linux (desirable)

• Time management and prioritisation skills to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Adaptability and willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies to stay updated on industry trends.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Ensure compliance with established architecture, design patterns, policies, standards and best practices
• Implement and deliver using hybrid Agile principles and methodologies
• Experience working in development standups, retrospectives and sprint planning sessions
• Work within a team environment with multiple product lines
• Proven experience (3 - 5 years) in DevOps roles supporting java-based web applications.
• Strong experience with supporting containerised applications in AWS
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline development (Jenkins, Maven, Gradle)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools/languages (CloudFormation ,YAML)
• Solid knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, ECS, EC2)
• Strong scripting skills (Groovyscript, Bash, Python)
• Strong programming skills (Java)
• Strong database skills (Oracle/Postgres)
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Opensearch, Logstash, Kibana)
• Familiarity with security best practices in DevOps environments (IAM, Secrets Manager)
• Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to optimise system performance
• Linux application development experience
• Strong skills and understanding of distributed version control systems (i.e., Git) and applications (e.g., Gitlab, Github,etc)
• Very strong knowledge and experience with application containers (e.g., Apache Tomcat) configuration, deployment and tuning
• Experience with applications in the Java stack such as JVM tuning, debugging and configuration
• Good knowledge and experience with front-end content delivery applications (Apache Web Server, Apache Web Server)
• Knowledge and experience with Identity and Access Management solutions such as OAM and AWS IAM