Junior Data Engineer – Data & Software

  • Australia Only
  • iress
Job Description:

See yourself being part of a large, transformational change? This could be the role for you!

Iress is continuing to hire for roles during Covid-19 with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually. Everyone new to the team, along with our current staff, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.

Who We Are:

At Iress, we believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. From the world’s most established financial brands to new and disruptive players, we help improve every aspect of our clients’ businesses so that they can work better, every day. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 1,900 people across Australia, United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Asia.

The Role:

The Senior Devops Engineer will drive quality outcomes for Iress clients and enable engineering teams by providing capabilities focused on the supportability and reliability of Iress software. The role ensures both engineering and operationally focused teams work seamlessly as one combined, end-2-end product engineering team.

What you will be doing:

  • Contribute, support and deliver the strategic vision set for support and reliability engineering with a strong focus on enabling speed, scale and quality, supporting Iress engineering delivery teams

  • Delivers a global alignment of infrastructure, delivery and platform technology across Iress

  • Coaching of SRE team members towards automation

  • Work closely with engineering teams to reduce cycle times for build and deployments

  • Ensure services provided extend engineering teams through to production, enabling speed and scale globally

  • Leads and drives automation throughout operational engineering activities and roles to remove “hands-on” work, driving an effective efficiency outcome

  • Ensures everything as code pattern such as GitOps, IaC, monitoring as code are followed

  • Supports SREs to ensure existing clients and solutions continue to operate effectively

  • Finding better ways of doing things, with a view to the future and technology engineering trends

What you will need:

  • Working knowledge of modern software and technology:

  • CI/CD processes and tools such as BuildKite, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or any other similar tool

  • Experience in at least one of the programming languages such as Java, Nodejs, Golang, C#, etc.

  • Expertise in IaC patterns and tools such as Terraform / Cloud formation

  • Strong knowledge in configuration management tools such as Ansible / Chef / Puppet

  • Expertise in docker container management and orchestration of containers such as ECS, AKS, EKS, GKE or native Kubernetes

  • Knowledge on databases (e.g. Postgres, SQL Server, Oracle or NoSQL DBs)

  • Experience in Application monitoring and relevant monitoring tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace or AppDynamics

  • Preferable experience in implementing security in automation pipelines with relevant static and dynamic application testing, component scan, etc.

  • Is a modern thinker, looks to the future while ensuring practical, commercial outcomes are achieved in the present - but does not aim to keep the status quo

  • Has an ability to relate effectively and positively with all people at all levels with Iress

  • Is a motivator, leads by example and can be respected by the broad range of technologists at Iress

  • Capable of contributing to broader business conversations beyond operational engineering and technology

  • Solicits the involvement of others to build a sense of ownership and engagement. Must have the confidence to act quickly and decisively.

  • Is able to define a delivery plan and identify & propose any supporting budget

  • Can empathise with people and clients appropriately and use that empathy in effective decision making

  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and collaborate with other functional leaders to provide great outcomes.

Why work with us?

  • Competitive base salary

  • Global opportunities

  • State-of-the-art offices

  • Casual dress, flexible work policy

  • Access to various learning and development programs

  • 3 days’ leave per year for charity initiatives

  • Global 36-hour hackathon

  • Table tennis, pool tables, meditation rooms

  • Employee Assistance Program

  • Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work.

Employment Type

Employee

Time Type

Full time

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