Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

• Great opportunity to join a global leader in mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Work in a fast-paced environment with lots of opportunity for exposure to both highly visible projects and cutting-edge technology
• Permanent, Perth based role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

Working within the Automation Development team, you’ll be part of a team developing industry leading technologies in the field of mine automation. Devops plays an integral role in the way we develop and release features on the suite of products that comprise Rio’s internally developed Mine Automation System (MAS) platform.

About the role

The role shall report to the Principal Advisor – DevOps and Infrastructure. We are looking for an experienced Devops Engineer, passionate about continuous improvement and operational excellence, to work with multiple development teams and our operations team to:

• Design and improve development, deployment and release processes
• Configure and support build and deployment infrastructure
• Maintaining development tools to support software developers
• Maintain and administer development and test environments
• Regular contributions to the team knowledge wiki
• Maintain and extend geospatial databases

Responsibilities

• Applies a collaborative approach to continuous integration and delivery through leveraging DevOps practices
• Undertake an iterative approach to test, integrate and deploy technology solutions by providing technical, integration and digital solution support to ensure solutions are accessible and functioning
• Have customer at front of mind to understand and incorporate user experience considerations and customer solution requirements into solution designs to ensure value delivery
• Manage product development through the appropriate delivery methods with a continuous improvement mindset and instil rigour in the testing, releasing, monitoring, and where required, support of solutions
• Track and report on solution performance according to defined and agreed SLA / Business Outcomes Measurements
• Champion DevOps practices and documenting DevOps processes, including developing standards to guide operations, support and maintenance

What you will Bring

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Software Engineering or Computer Science
• Proven experience working in an engineering role with DevOps responsibilities
• Experience working with databases (preferably geospatial databases) or the willingness and aptitude to learn.

Skills

• DevOps: Puppet, Docker, Jenkins, Nagios, Elasticsearch, Vagrant
• Scripting: Python, Ansible, CMake, Bash
• Experience of infrastructure as code and automation scripts
• Administering Unix systems
• Software development and operations processes and an understanding of best practices
• CI/CD experience
• Database experience (Postgres and/or MSSQL)
• Experience with large scale, high frequency, real-time data
• Understanding of large scale and available software architectures
• Experience with both on premise and cloud environments
• Source control administration (Git)
• Experience within an Agile development team

About Rio Tinto 

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. 

Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Where you will be workingThis role is based in Perth, Western Australia, out of our Central Park office, working Monday – Friday. We support and encourage flexible working arrangements. Occasional travel may be required as and when necessary.The Digital Integrated Mine team is highly collaborative and work in close partnership with Rio Tinto’s global R&D community, and external bodies such as research institutes, suppliers and industry partners.What We Offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive programme
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Every Voice MattersAt 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.We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.