DevOps Specialist

Elysium Digital

Australia · Full-time · Entry

We are currently seeking a Devops Specialist on a PERMANENT Basis for a start in January 2026.

This role can be done remotely from Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne with occasioanal travel to Canberra as required.

Role Overview

You will play a key role in establishing and maintaining the cloud hosting, automation, and deployment foundation for a large-scale digital transformation program. This role is responsible for building secure, scalable, repeatable infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), enabling robust CI/CD pipelines, supporting development teams across multiple workstreams, and ensuring environments meet government security and compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Azure (AWS experience also desirable) using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation).
Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines to support automated builds, testing, deployments, and environment provisioning.
Work closely with solution architects, developers, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration between application code, cloud infrastructure, and deployment automation.
Establish and maintain secure cloud environments aligned to ISM and government security expectations.
Develop environment strategies (dev/test/uat/prod), including configuration management and automated environment refresh or rebuild patterns.
Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards to support proactive performance and security management.
Collaborate with cybersecurity specialists to embed secure-by-design principles, identity and access management patterns, and continuous compliance controls.
Contribute to incident response, environment troubleshooting, and optimisation to ensure system reliability and performance.
Support migration activities, including automation of data and asset movement where appropriate.
Document patterns, frameworks, and operational runbooks to support ongoing BAU operations.

Skills & Experience

Strong experience as a DevOps Engineer or Cloud Engineer within complex digital programs, preferably in government or other regulated sectors.
Deep expertise in IaC (Terraform, ARM and Bicep strongly preferred; CloudFormation or similar also valuable).
Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.).
Solid understanding of cloud architecture and services across Azure. (compute, network, identity, storage, monitoring).
Experience implementing logging, monitoring, observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana).
Strong knowledge of cloud security practices, including least privilege access, key management, network segmentation, and policy enforcement.
Familiarity with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) beneficial but not essential.
Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, translating technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders where required.
Experience supporting automated testing frameworks, environment provisioning, and application deployment.
Certifications in cloud or DevOps disciplines highly regarded.
Development experience in Microsoft technologies such as .Net Framework, .Net Core, C# is highly regarded & desirable.

What Success Looks Like:

Stable, secure, and automated cloud environments that speed up delivery and reduce manual overhead.
Repeatable IaC practices that allow environments to be created, modified, or rebuilt reliably and efficiently.
High-confidence deployments supported by automated pipelines and robust guardrails.
Reduced operational risk through proactive monitoring and well-documented runbooks.
A strong partnership with development, architecture, and security teams ensuring seamless technical delivery.

You MUST be an Australian Citizen and hold a minimum of a Baseline Security Clearance, and be willing to obtain NV1 to be considered for this position.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for this role.

For more information contact Mitchell on 0425 269 780

Key Skills

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