Manager DevOps

Manager DevOps, Brisbane - Australia

Rio Tinto is building a world-class software engineering capability…

Within our company-wide Information Systems & Technology function, we are building an internal software development and delivery team focusing on high-value and strategic products for the digital transformation of Rio Tinto. We are building this capability and capacity with the support of a strategic partnership with Endava, one of the world’s leading software engineering companies.

We are recruiting for junior, experienced, and leadership roles to establish this capability for scaling as we shift our technology landscape to products and platforms. We are building a culture that is value driven, diverse and inclusive, innovative, and fun with challenging problems and opportunities to solve.

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced technical leader for our DevOps Manager role. The DevOps Manager will be responsible for managing the DevOps team within the Product & Software Development function and integrating our practices with other ITS departments. They will collaborate closely with Scrum Teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality products and platforms to Rio Tinto.

As the preferred applicant you will provide expert advice on application security, licensing, upgrades, backups and disaster recovery requirements. You will ensure that all support requests are handled in accordance with established standards and procedures.

Our DevOps leader crafts effective solutions across projects and clarifies needs and requirements for new / enhanced systems, products and services.

You will have demonstrable exposure in assessing practicality of potential approaches and establish decision criteria. Estimate costs and document the conclusions reached to contribute to sales proposals.

The DevOps Manager will be responsible for ensuring that the DevOps team follows best practices, utilises appropriate tools and provide accurate responses to support requests. Your scope will include system deployment, modifications, enhancements, data manipulation, reconfiguration, operating procedure changes, user or operations staff training, additional documentation production, escalation to systems development staff or software suppliers.

Safeguard documentation in compliance with the required standards, methods and procedures.

As the Manager of the DevOps team, you will provide coaching and mentorship to the team, establishing a defined structure for career and learning paths within the DevOps practice.

This role requires excellent communication skills to build relationships with key stakeholders both within projects and across the company. The DevOps Manager must be adept at understanding and providing solutions to complex problems with a focus on fulfilling business needs. They will encounter a variety of challenges, ranging from technical solutions and design to improving end-to-end service delivery.

About you

Essential

• Strategic thinking to align DevOps practices with business goals and objectives.
• Proven experience working as DevOps engineer and leading DevOps teams.
• Strong decision-making skills, with the ability to prioritise tasks and allocate resources effectively, based on business needs.
• Team-orientated attitude and the ability to work well with others to achieve a common goal.
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles, best practice and demonstrated ability and openness to working in an agile environment as part of a scrum team.
• Experience in implementing and promoting best practices, automation and tooling to enhance development and deployment processes.
• Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Demonstrated training and/or applied experience as coach and/or mentor.
• Bachelor’s degree level or holds a relevant professional qualification, I.e. Bachelor of IT, Computer Science, Software Engineering etc.
• In-depth knowledge of DevOps principles, practices, and methodologies.
• The ability to take the initiative and drive for results.
• Poses strong troubleshooting capabilities and capable problem-solving skills and attitude.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Experience in defining career paths and learning paths for team members.

Certification in any of the below listed tools and technologies:

Tools: Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, TeamCity, Ansible, Terraform, Bicep

Technologies: Microsoft Azure

Automation Engines: PowerShell, Bash

Process: ITIL, ITSM

Knowledge of and experience using:

• Cloud: Microsoft Azure, AWS
• IaC: Azure Bicep, Azure ARM, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation
• Configuration management: Ansible, PowerShell DSC
• OS: Windows, Linux
• Container orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, VMWare Tanzu, Rancher 
• Scripting: bash, PowerShell, python, ruby
• SCM: Azure Repos, GitHub, Bitbucket
• Web and application servers: IIS, NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat
• Databases: MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 
• CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity
• Monitoring, telemetry, logging: Dynatrace, AppInsights, Nagios, SolarWinds, Splunk
• Service and Support: ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps

Desirable

• Experience with APM tooling (Dynatrace, AppInsights)
• Knowledge regarding OWASP SAMM
• Experience with code and binary security vulnerability tooling (Snyk, Azure Defender, NeuVector,)

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
• An excellent base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program.
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family.
• Attractive share ownership plan.
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options.
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).
• Domestic relocation if required.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Come and join us in this exciting journey as a member of the leadership team, where you be integral in establishing and executing on our strategy, building our team, implementing best practices and technology to meet our plans for scaling and value delivery.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.