This is a long term contract opportunity to work within the CIO office of a large, Australian government department

The role is hybrid and can be based in Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Perth

Job Description:

The Azure DevOps Engineer will be working to support and maintain existing systems to to also help deliver an ambitious ICT transformation and modernisation agenda; a large program of work to replace several legacy systems and outdated infrastructure - across several project streams

The role is responsible for undertaking very complex and/or sensitive work; under broad direction - utilising expertise across a range of activities relating to the design of software applications

Responsibilities include:

• Work effectively with the technical teams such as the development teams and DevOps teams.
• Establish and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines, repositories and artefacts.
• Ensuring that cloud platforms are current in their toolsets, resilient, secure and automated wherever possible.
• In collaboration with other teams in the work area, investigate and resolve complex issues with the operation of an application.
• Ensure deadlines are consistently met and that a high standard of technical and design documentation is provided.
• Assisting with cloud first deployment pipeline development.
• Creating and overseeing processes that manage the delivery pipeline from development through to production.
• Working with project and operational teams to orchestrate delivery pipelines across design, build, test, deploy and run.
• Implementing continuous improvements, strategy and best practice development in the CI/CD environment.

Essential criteria

• Exposure to DevSecOps using Azure DevOps
• Experience in working with major Cloud Platforms (e.g. Azure / AWS / Google Cloud)
• "Hands on" experience with deploying and maintaining Azure resources including Azure App Service and similar.
• Relevant technology certifications across the cloud Infrastructure landscape.
• Proven experience in working in a hybrid environment and design moves from on-premise to cloud platforms
• Extensive experience building and maintaining complex Azure DevOps pipelines
• Proficient in developing pipelines that deploy Infrastructure as a code (IAC)
• Ability to understand and disseminate industry terminology and concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience developing .Net Core and .Net framework Applications
• Good knowledge of implementing the IAC with CICD (Azure DevOps / Github)
• Experience with GIT version control and common branching strategies.

Desirable criteria

• Experience with Visio to create technical documentation
• Ability to communicate and consult with a wide variety of stakeholders

Consultant: Colin Massey

Keywords: Federal government, Australian government, DevSecOps, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, IAC, Cloud, Azure, AWS Cloud, Google Cloud, .NET Core, .NET framework applications, GIT, Azure App Service, software applications, infrastructure