Senior DevOps Engineer

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For over almost 60 years, our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the world’s leading brands and their customers. And while we’ve already done a lot of work we’re proud of, we’re just getting started!

We’re a global technology company focused on creating dynamic, smart, personalized and engaging customer experiences powered by our range of digital hardware, our proprietary content management system and our industry leading signage solutions. (For example: If you’ve ordered in-store or in the drive-thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world in the last few years, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions.) We work in over 50 global markets and have 9 offices around the world, with a global headquarters proudly located in our founding home of Sydney, Australia.

Coates Group has the values of a family-owned business and the innovative spirit of a start-up, both which fuel our purpose – Creating Connections. Empowering Partnerships. Always Evolving. Through hard work, dedication and creativity, we’ve become industry leaders who have won awards and set records while remaining focused on continual growth and evolution. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are curious, charismatic, authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew. We are imaginers, kindness enthusiasts, experts, creators, thinkers, challengers, collaborators and over-achievers. And together, as a Crew, we are revolutionizing the way the world’s leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.

The Senior DevOps Engineer has deep expertise in DevOps and is responsible for either assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure or more broadly working on organizational infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Contributing to a strong DevOps Culture
• Familiarity with DevOps principles: automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc.
• Research, analyze and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs
• Ability to provide advice and expertise to clients and mentor more junior team members to design improvements on the platforms
• Work closely with the DevOps Lead in developing proposals and strategies for DevOps
• Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPSs globally
• Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices
• Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime
• Identifying, investigating, and analyzing current business processes, procedures, and work practices, looking at new ways to incorporate our products
• Proactively championing, identifying, and implementing new initiatives and solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure

Qualifications & Experience:

• Highly knowledgeable of AWS
• Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker
• Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members
• Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions
• Strong capabilities in Bash and Python scripting
• Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu)
• Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC
• Experience in configuration management tools
• Experience monitoring and observing dashboard tools like SumoLogic and AWS CloudWatch
• Deep understanding of architectural patterns for modern software stacks e.g., distributed architectures and microservices

Success Factors:

• Works collaboratively with the DevOps Lead, Tech Leads, Ops Lead to ensure solutions and designs are in line with the overall platform design
• Taking a leading role to propose and solution initiatives that improve our cloud presence, including areas like security, compliance, and cost optimization
• Supporting DevOps practice and adoption within the development squads
• Collaborate with the Delivery Team to ensure projects are delivered on time and meet quality expectations

Capabilities:

• Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements
• Regularly speaks in public forums
• Mentors’ others through code reviews and pair programming
• Positive attitude to learning new things
• SME in DevOps

About Coates

We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are led by a forward-thinking CEO who has demonstrated a true passion for people and making Coates a place where people genuinely enjoy working. Our growth plans enable a focus on providing rapid career advancement opportunities for our talent.

Together, we are creators, allowing us to make our purpose a reality – to create immersive brand experiences for everyone.

Join a Crew that Cares

Be part of a global team of talented, ambitious, creative people that value integrity, individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality + Empowerment Initiatives).

The benefits include an annual market competitive bonus program and our “Thrive Program” which includes a suite of flexible work options because we’re strong believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also provides dedicated time to prioritize our health and wellbeing (think virtual Yoga or meditation sessions), a Global Wellness paid day off to recharge as well as a “Give Back Day” to allow our Crew an opportunity to make an impact in the community.

Be inspired To Be More

We skip the red tape and aim to always stay nimble. We’re proud of where we’ve been and are energized by where we’re going. We encourage ideas and perspectives because we know the more we have, the better we are. We work hard but have fun along the way. We push the boundaries but keep it real and authentic. We believe in the values that got us here are the ones that will continue to lead us forward. We are excited by what we’ve accomplished, but know the best is yet to come.

Coates Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, disability, age, political affiliation or belief, disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam Era, or citizenship status (except in those special circumstances permitted or mandated by law).