DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer based in Brisbane, your role will support, optimise and improve the technology platforms underpinning our critical digital and payment systems, with a strong focus on automation, stability, security and operational excellence.

Supporting our purpose of helping every Australian own their own home.

You’ll make an impact by

• Supporting and optimising critical application platforms and AWS cloud environments to deliver high availability and reliability
• Improving CI/CD pipelines and automating build, deployment and operational processes to enable faster, safer technology change
• Managing system patching, vulnerabilities, capacity and platform lifecycle to maintain secure and resilient environments
• Configuring and maintaining monitoring and alerting across critical 24x7 systems
• Supporting project delivery teams with non-production environments, application builds, configuration and deployments
• Leading technical incident response and stakeholder communications during service disruptions
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to engineers and partner teams while driving continuous improvement
• Participating in after-hours releases and the rotational 24x7 DevOps on-call roster

Do things differently with us

This is an opportunity to work at the heart of the technology that keeps our digital banking and payment services running.

You’ll join a technically skilled, forward-thinking team focused on automation, reliability and continuous improvement. You’ll work across cloud and on-premise environments, helping engineer, support and improve platforms that need to be secure, scalable and available around the clock.

It’s a genuinely hands-on senior engineering role. You’ll tackle complex technical issues, improve CI/CD and automation, strengthen platform resilience and provide technical leadership when it matters most. You’ll balance project delivery with the operational rigour required to support business-critical technology.

If you enjoy solving complex problems, automating away manual effort and building technology environments that are stable, secure and ready to scale, you’ll thrive here.

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• 10+ years' experience across IT environments, with strong capability in application support, cloud engineering, systems administration and/or technical delivery
• Deep experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies, combined with exposure to on-premise environments, containerisation and platforms such as VMware, OpenShift or Fargate
• Strong DevOps and automation capability, including CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment automation, orchestration and scripting using tools or languages such as Bash, PowerShell or Groovy
• Broad technical knowledge across Windows and Linux environments, infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, integration, security and application technologies
• Experience supporting business-critical, customer-facing systems, ideally digital banking or payment platforms, including incident, change and release management in controlled environments
• Demonstrated technical leadership, stakeholder and vendor management skills, along with an understanding of technology risk, operational resilience and regulatory requirements within financial services
• Degree qualifications in Information Technology or equivalent experience, with AWS, RHEL, Microsoft or other relevant technology certifications highly regarded

Why Great Southern Bank?

Whatever your role with us, you’ll be part of a force for good. We’re owned by our customers right here in Australia, so our success benefits everyday people and families. Working at Great Southern Bank, you’ll also enjoy a range of fantastic benefits, some examples include:

• Helping you unlock a brighter future by investing in your development and wellbeing, offering you study leave, a day for you and professional wellbeing coaching.
• Benefits that support you and your wellbeing so that you can thrive at work and at home, today and tomorrow. Enjoy access to our wellbeing centre and the flexibility to work from home two days a week.
• Helping you to achieve your financial goals and positively impact your family and community. We offer discounts on a wide range of Great Southern Bank products and services such as savings and transaction accounts, insurance, home loans and more!

Imagine working for a bank that truly helps people. You can.

At Great Southern Bank, we’re building a workplace where everyone belongs. We value diverse backgrounds, cultures, abilities and experiences - including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disability, and the LGBTQ+ community - because it makes us stronger for our people, customers and communities. Through flexible working, collaboration and fair, inclusive decision-making, we empower our people to do their best every day.

We move with purpose, are curious about what’s next, remain focused on what matters most, and are always ready to find smarter ways to help our customers and communities thrive. Our people bring energy and initiative to a fast-changing environment, making thoughtful decisions that balance doing good for our customers with driving sustainable success for our business. If you enjoy working in a place where priorities evolve, ideas are valued, and every action contributes to something bigger, you’ll feel right at home here at Great Southern Bank.

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