DevOps Engineer

📋 Job Overview

As we continue to expand and modernise our cloud platforms, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our SaaS Operations Support team in South Melbourne.

This is a hands-on role with genuine production ownership. You will operate and improve AWS-hosted SaaS platforms, strengthen automation and deployment capability, support Kubernetes environments and contribute to broader platform modernisation initiatives across APAC.

🏢 About Verra Mobility

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility, developing technology-driven solutions that help make transportation safer and more efficient. Our platforms support government, enforcement, tolling and commercial mobility customers across Australia, North America and Europe.

🎯 The Role

As a DevOps Engineer at Verra Mobility, you will:

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve AWS infrastructure across services including EKS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, IAM, S3 and Route 53.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads and the EKS platform lifecycle, including upgrades, deployments, troubleshooting and operational stability.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions and Bamboo.
• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar technologies.
• Monitor platform performance and availability using New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Lead and support P1/P2 production incident response, root cause analysis and preventative actions.
• Contribute to platform reliability, automation, scalability, security and operational improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with engineering, product and support teams within an agile delivery environment.
• Participate in the DevOps on-call roster, providing out-of-hours support for critical production incidents.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience within production environments.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes, ideally Amazon EKS.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code capability using Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting capability using Shell, Python or PowerShell.
• Linux administration experience.
• A sound understanding of networking, cloud security, IAM and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Experience supporting highly available, customer-facing or SaaS platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to work effectively during production incidents.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with tools such as Git, GitHub Actions, Bamboo, Jira, SonarQube, Veracode, New Relic, Prometheus and Grafana will be well regarded.

🎁 Benefits

• Broad technical ownership across cloud infrastructure and platform operations.
• Exposure to major customer and technology initiatives across APAC.
• Opportunities to improve automation, reliability and engineering practices.
• A collaborative international technology environment.
• Hybrid working from our South Melbourne office and home.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.