Job Description

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About Datacom

Datacom is Australasia\'s largest homegrown technology services business of over 7600 people, from humble beginnings as a small family business, we have enjoyed healthy, organic, and sustainable growth to become a large multinational, that proudly holds on to our \'small family business feel.

At the centre of our vision and values are people: our people. We are guided by what is best for our staff, our customers, and our communities.

Growing to dominate the New Zealand government and corporate IT market, we expanded into the Philippines, Malaysia, and Australia in the mid-90s and have been growing in those regions ever since.

We are embarking on a goal of building our Platform Services capability in Malaysia. This exciting and strategic intention will see a team of Software and Platform professionals working seamlessly and virtually with our 1300-strong team across New Zealand and Australia.

Do you have what it takes to help us grow? This is your chance to be part of something new, getting on from the \'ground floor\' and benefiting from all the up-side of a \'start-up\' initiative with the security of a large multi-national (and yet none of the down-side).

About the Role - DevOps Engineer Role Overview and Objectives

The DevOps Engineer role will work on Datacom\'s SaaS payroll product helping our clients pay more than 150,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. Our ideal candidate will have a lot of experience working with CI/CD tools, and the ability to develop a solid understanding of infrastructure; they will also have a great ability to automate problems and design clean, lightweight processes for the rest of the development team.

The primary objective of this role is:

1. Platform Modernisation - the payroll platform is modernized to improve the -ilities (measured by meeting outcomes of platform roadmap)

Role Responsibilities

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for:

Pipeline Management

• Streamlining the CI/CD process for the development team
• Designing process which enables delivery of the software quickly, safely, and without much effort
• Troubleshooting when there are issues with the pipeline
• Upskilling the development team where need be so that the development teams can approach their tasks with autonomy

Infrastructure Management

• Creating new virtual machines and configuring them for use. This could either be manually or through code
• Maintaining virtual machines that are owned by the DataPay team
• Developing tools to monitor the health of infrastructure, and owning this monitoring
• Responding to situations where there are problems with the infrastructure

Developing

• Writing scripts to automate tasks and reduce manual work.
• Ensuring all scripts/configurations are protected in source control where possible
• Managing databases, verifying data integrity, and providing administration
• Performance tuning, balancing, improvement, automation, and usability
• Integrating applications and establishing connectivity between systems

Analysing

• Analysing technical requirements and identifying how they relate to the guidance
• Assisting in the creation of technical and functional specifications

Reporting

• Participating in project meetings
• Discussing issues to be resolved, reporting progress, setting expectations, discussing priorities throughout the development life cycle

Testing / Quality assurance

• Making sure deliverables are on time and are of a high quality
• Troubleshooting development and production problems with code you may have contributed across multiple environments and operating platforms.

Documenting

• Creating/maintaining technical documentation, guides, and tools.

Requirements:

Knowledge

• Development experience
• Experience with SQL server
• Experience in an agile development team
• Experience with CI/CD tools e.g., TeamCity, Octopus, Azure DevOps
• Confidence with PowerShell
• Experience in Azure/AWS
• Knowledge of monitoring tools

Skills

• Documentation
• Passion for designing clean, lightweight process

Experience

• Minimum 3 years\' experience in a technical role
• Experience in a DevSecOps or SRE role
• Experience with SaaS development

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and Benefits
• Hybrid work schedule
• Work Life balance and an APAC focus means no graveyard shifts!

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