DevOps Engineer

About Us

At Red Energy, we are passionate about providing award-winning customer service to over 1.5 million of our customers across the country. Owned by the mighty Snowy Hydro, we are 100% Australian owned which our customers love us for. Our award winning team have won 14 consecutive Canstar Blue Awards for best overall customer satisfaction amongst Victorian electricity providers. Looking for a career change? Join an award-winning team passionate about exceptional customer service!

About The Role

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, you will be at the forefront of our technology evolution, helping us design, deliver, and maintain the high-quality cloud services that power our retail operations.

In this role, you'll be part of a team that acts as a bridge between technology and business, ensuring our information systems are secure, scalable, and always available. This is a unique opportunity to work with modern toolsets across on-prem and cloud environments while helping elevate our digital maturity through automation and agile methodologies.

In this role, you will:

• Identify, participate in the design, and deliver cloud-based IT services that align with our technology vision and drive greater business performance.
• Maintain our security posture and compliance standards, ensuring all new software developments meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
• Adopt and encourage an agile approach to infrastructure, delivering quality systems that meet both commercial objectives and end-user needs.
• Liaise with internal stakeholders and the T&D group to provide expert guidance on cloud operations, maximising the availability of our critical systems.
• Manage and evolve our CI/CD pipelines, utilising tools like GitLab and ArgoCD to ensure seamless and continuous delivery.
• Monitor and optimise our cloud platforms, ensuring robust performance and security across our environments.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships to ensure our technology services are delivered on time and within budget.
  
  

What we're looking for:

• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer. You should be highly proficient with Linux (Redhat/Ubuntu), CLI, and Shell Scripting.
• Strong working knowledge of OpenShift Container Platform and/or Kubernetes.
• Proven track record with GitLab, Gitflow, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure high-quality software delivery such as continuous Delivery tools like ArgoCD.
• Strong expertise in Azure, combined with hands-on experience using Terraform to drive infrastructure as code.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and Grafana Cloud.
• Reasonable understanding of networking, including SDN network routing, network policies, and micro-segmentation.
• Experience with GCP or other cloud services is highly advantageous.
• Familiarity with WAF and Proxy services such as CloudFlare.
  
  

If you're ready to bring your energy, ideas, and technical expertise into a team that values Teamwork, Ownership and Agility — we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the future of energy in Australia.