Senior Lead Devops Engineer

Our Company

A globally scaled media processing platform, infrastructure supporting high profile sports events and breaking news, infrastructure in mobile units, we have all of them. Each has their own unique challenges. NEP is looking for a highly motivated DevOps Infrastructure Engineer to automate the infrastructure for our global media platforms.

We are always looking for great people to join our team; people with a passion for people and teamwork helping us deliver exceptional results for our clients.

NEP Australia is currently looking for a Senior Lead Devops Engineer to join our team at the Andrew’s HUB in Southbank!

The position

Day-to-day, the Infrastructure Engineers are concerned with the automation and continuous deployment in application delivery, present in most phases of the software development lifecycle. You are responsible for the automated deployment, reliability, performance, security, monitoring and support of our 24/7 deployments and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Design and implement infrastructure and processes that support reliable, performant, secured application deployments.
• Scale out and support our deployment platforms to meet growing demand
• Design, develop, and deploy tools and frameworks to improve and automate software releases.
• Apply your experience implementing infrastructure as code, transforming release pipelines and deploying into production with a NoOps mindset on highly performant DevOps pipelines. Add quality checks and test automation for your Infrastructure as Code.
• Automate provisioning of infrastructure and code by leveraging the latest in configuration management tools, containers and service orchestrators.
• Benchmark & optimize key operations metrics, ensure we meet operational SLAs.
• Provide third line support for the automated application deployments and provisioned infrastructure.
• Collaborate with international colleagues for globally scaled projects.

Required skills and attributes:

• BA in Computer Science, IT, CS & Engineering (or equivalent) is required, MA preferred, or in place of a degree, 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong experience in designing scalable & highly available service solutions using the latest tools and technologies
• You have experience with or similar tools: Ubuntu, GCP, GKE, K8S, K3S, Rancher, Spinnaker Github/Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana/Prometheus, Zabbix, Graylog
• Familiarity with middleware services such as Redis, RabbitMQ and MariaDB
• Experience in GCP, AWS and vMware vSphere or Proxmox is an advantage
• You can articulate technical solutions, limitations, obstacles and risks.
• Strong understanding of networking is a plus

NEP believes that, ?rst and foremost, the e?orts of our people are what contribute to our successes. We o?er a range of bene?ts that assist our team in their professional development and wellbeing, including:

• Salary continuance insurance
• NEP Days – additional 5 days of leave per year (conditions apply)
• NEP Travel benefits & discounts including Qantas Club Membership
• Discounts through Employment Hero Work app
• Employee Assistance Programme

If you feel you have the right match of skills for this position and are available to work weekends submit your application today!

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

About Our Process

At NEP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with Our Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants' suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, right to work checks, and reference checks.

NEP is the largest media technology partner for content producers of live sports, entertainment, and corporate events globally. For more than 35 years, NEP has been delivering innovative products and services that enable clients to make, manage and show the world their content—anywhere, anytime, on any platform.

As a trusted partner working on some of the largest productions in the world, NEP offers a complete set of end-to-end solutions, from content capture to distribution—including a growing portfolio of transformational cloud-based, software-based and virtualized technologies.

• NEP’s Live Production solutions range from AV services and live audience enhancements to traditional outside broadcast and cutting-edge centralized and cloud production.

• NEP’s Virtual Production solutions start at the creative stage and end with exceptional execution across ICVFX, augmented reality, LED stages and more.

• NEP’s Media Processing solutions provide the tools and products our clients need to ingest, edit, store, search, manage and distribute their digital assets to rights holders across multiple platforms.

Headquartered in the United States, NEP has operations in 25 countries with over 4,000+ employees. Together, NEP has supported productions in over 100 countries on all seven continents and is still growing. Clients range from the leaders in sport, music, film and TV, to major corporate brands, agencies, to new content owners and creators all around the world.

Anywhere, anytime, on any platform—we help our clients make, manage, and show the world their content.