Senior DevOps Engineer - Pathway Engineering

at  MYOB

We’re MYOB, a business management platform designed to unleash the potential of businesses across Australia and New Zealand! As the #originalstartup, our roots are in finance and accounting software, but today we are so much more. We help our Aussie and Kiwi customers unleash their full potential, giving them the tools to Start, Survive and Succeed: all in the one place.
We’re always on the hunt for those who bring a different perspective, diversity of thought and the drive to make our culture even better. Take your career to a new dimension at MYOB.

THE SKILLS YOU’LL NEED

• Confident in software development. We write Go & Python predominantly, but will happily support you to learn, provided you are proficient in another modern language like C#, Java & Ruby.
• Proficient in one of the key public cloud offerings, ideally AWS, including Infrastructure as Code technologies and processes.
• Experience running a robust production platform using operational constructs such as Serverless and containerisation (Docker).
• Experience using a modern CI/CD tooling suite, with knowledge of Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment best practises.

It would be a bonus to have knowledge of:

• Common tools we use: Buildkite, GitHub, GitHub Actions, CloudFormation.
• Vendor management.

ABOUT THE ROLE

You will join the Digital Experience team, building and maintaining MYOB’s Delivery Pipeline and Secure Code Management platforms.
Our customers are the technology teams in MYOB, and our mission is to help them deliver with increased speed, security and reliability. We build services using AWS, Go (Golang) and Python, integrating a range of SaaS and custom tooling APIs to provide a platform for developers.
As a Senior team member, you will use your leadership capabilities to help uplift the teams technical strength, influence the platform direction, and uplift the Developer Experience for all MYOB development teams.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Work closely with development teams across the company to identify problems or opportunities and evaluate patterns and best-practices.

• Identify and lead new initiatives, prioritising by the greatest need and highest impact, defining solutions and gaining agreement across MYOB.

• Embrace Lean principles and work as a part of an Agile team - utilising sprints, epics, experiments, and iterating based on feedback.

• Drive adoption of our services and tooling through workshops, training and consultation.

• Seek opportunities to automate and uplift our own services and processes.
• Champion improvement through retros and team collaboration through pairing and demos.
• Support, teach, and mentor your team in engineering principles and development practices, helping them tackle their trickiest problems.
• Develop relationships with our chosen vendors to understand how we can get the most out of their tooling and increase our ability to automate.