DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Supporting millions of Aussies since 1988 with low fees and competitive long-term performance. Profits back to members, not shareholders

Closing date: 29th August 2025

Please note Rest does not accept speculative resumes from recruitment agencies 

Rest will review applications prior to the closing date and may close the role earlier 

Job Description

• DevOps Engineer with AWS & API experience required
• Permanent Position
• Hybrid work environment with a great culture 

Established in 1988, Rest is one of Australia’s largest profit-to-member superannuation funds.

We support nearly two million members, with around $86 billion of funds under management and are recognised as a responsible investment leader*. We believe when members understand and engage with their super, they’re more likely to get a better retirement outcome.

Everything we do at Rest is underpinned by our values and behaviours, we want to Be Daring, Keep it Simple, Take Action and Have Grit. To put it simply we want our people to thrive and love the work they do.

The DevOps Engineer is responsible for collaborating with Software Engineers in the design, implementation and support of DevOps capabilities for the API platforms with some work in the digital space. They will be instrumental in developing automated and integrated capabilities for monitoring and keeping currency of the capabilities run in the platforms.

The DevOps Engineer will also be an AWS platform subject matter expert within the Rest Engineering team. They will be embedded in all AWS platform related projects to design, implement and support cloud architecture needed to deliver engineering capabilities.

• Develop and standardise the usage of automation to provision and manage cloud resources and environments within the Digital (CMS) and API Platforms, using AWS CDK, CloudFormation, scripting, or other tools.

• Review our current CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment and updates to AWS resources, and define and implement best practices in our CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse monitoring data to identify performance bottlenecks in the Platforms.
• Work alongside Solution Architects and other technical stakeholders to design and architect scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions, using native AWS services (S3, ECS, EC2, RDS, Dynamo, etc.).
• Review and enforce practices from our vendor DevOps resources to develop infrastructure as code using tools like AWS CloudFormation or CDK to automate resource provisioning.
• Own the BCP and DR capabilities within the AWS domain and work collaboratively with the business and vendors to schedule and conduct annual DR tests for all AWS based infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues related to AWS infrastructure, networking, and applications. Provide technical support to development teams and stakeholders, troubleshooting and resolving issues promptly.
• Integrate security controls into the CI/CD pipeline to safeguard the software development process. This could involve implementing Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), or other security tools within the pipeline.
• Set up proactive monitoring and alerting systems to detect anomalies, performance degradation, and potential failures. Implement timely alerts to notify teams about issues requiring attention.
• Implement and manage redundant systems, load balancers, and failover mechanisms to ensure continuous availability. Monitor the health of redundant components and automatically switch traffic to healthy resources.
• Document all changes made to the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring other team members can understand and follow the new processes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, operations, and security teams, to drive successful cloud initiatives.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or a proven track record of relevant industry experience.
• Cloud-specific certifications are highly valuable (AWS Solution Architect, Developer, SysOps, etc.).

Required experience, understanding or credentials including:

• Junior to mid-level of relevant experience in cloud architecture, cloud operations, DevOps or related roles is required. 
• Strong record of delivering observable cloud solutions from inception to production, working hands-on throughout the process; A strong and in-depth understanding of cloud, CI/CD practices, and modern development practices. 
• AWS Services - including RDS, DMS, DynamoDB, EC2, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, Lambda functions and IAM to name a few; Cloud networking such as VPC, NACL, Security Group, Firewalls, LBs, Transit Gateway, VPC, VPN. 
• Development of Infrastructure As Code frameworks and automation such as Terraform, AWS CDK, Cloud Formation, Ansible. 
• Application deployment and release management
• Source-code repositories and CI/CD pipelines such as Gitlab, Github, GitHub Actions. 
• Application configuration and secrets management. 
• Application deployment patterns - web applications, serverless, containers. 
• Languages - Python, Typescript / Javascript, Shell. 
• Designing and managing resilient and recoverable cloud infrastructure with 3+ nines availability. 
• Experience in observability for infrastructure, applications, and cloud services with tools such as Dynatrace, Datadog, PagerDuty, etc. 
• Tools - Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Github. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 
• Knowledgeable in multiple programming languages and an expert in some 
• Understanding of the cloud infrastructure level - VPCs, networks, security, Linux  
• Passionate about quality and correctness with a drive to automate as much as possible  
• Experience with development or the administration of Kubernetes or Serverless frameworks

Additional Information

Our benefits have been designed so you can tailor your experience with us and include:

• Personal and professional development opportunities 
• Hybrid working 
• Purchase leave scheme and gender neutral 16 weeks paid parental leave 
• Super Contribution Continuation for 12 Months of parental leave 
• Linkedin Learning 
• Income Protection Insurance 
• Rest Excellence awards (peer recognition awards based on Rest’s values and behaviours) 
• Rest Stops - meeting free breaks 

If you share our values, believe you can help make a difference for our members and want to be part of a leading superannuation fund with a Super culture, please click Apply Now.

Rest is committed to creating a flexible work environment and culture that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion - where people feel welcome, safe to be themselves and inspired to do their best.

We value the different backgrounds, lived experiences and abilities our diverse team brings. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all ages, cultural backgrounds, faiths, gender identities, sexual orientations and thinking styles. This includes people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples and those with disrupted work history due to career or other breaks.

Please note only people with the right to work in Australia will be considered.

*Funds under management as at 30 June 2024. Rest is recognised as a Responsible Investment Leader by the Responsible Investment Association Australia (RIAA) in its Responsible Investment Benchmark Report 2022.