Senior DevSecOps Engineer Featured

Location:	Brisbane
Category:	Engineering / Technical
Position Type:	Permanent
Job Reference:	BOE/1919821B2
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About us

Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) is shaping the future of Australian aerospace by delivering some of the nations most important capabilities to the Australian Defence Force.

BDA currently employs more than 3,000 people across 14 sites in Australia and three international locations and have a range of opportunities available as we plan for future growth.

The Opportunity

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Deploy, configure and maintain the DevSecOps platform (source control, CI/CD, static analysis, artifact registries, runners/agents, web UIs) in Kubernetes within an AWS cloud environment.
• Provision and operate production Kubernetes clusters (EKS or equivalent): cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, ingress, RBAC, Helm/Operators and autoscaling.
• Patch, upgrade and harden DevSecOps tooling, container images, OS and Kubernetes components; coordinate maintenance windows and rollback plans.
• Implement and enforce security controls: identity federation, RBAC, secrets management (KMS/Vault), image scanning, admission controls, private endpoints and network segmentation.
• Integrate static analysis (SonarQube or equivalent), SCA, unit/integration tests and security gates into pipelines.
• Automate provisioning and operations with IaC and configuration management (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm) and maintain automation in git.
• Monitor platform health and tooling telemetry (metrics, logging, alerting); troubleshoot and remediate incidents and performance bottlenecks.
• Mentor and support developers and operations staff in pipeline usage, tooling best practices and secure development lifecycle improvements.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging tooling and patterns (GitOps, policy as code, container security) to improve reliability, security and developer experience.

Applicants are also expected to have:

• 5+ years relevant hands?on experience (or equivalent education + experience) administering cloud, Kubernetes and DevSecOps tooling in production.
• Strong Kubernetes operational experience (cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, RBAC, Helm, operators, troubleshooting). EKS experience preferred.
• Strong AWS skills (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, KMS, Transit Gateway/Direct Connect concepts)
• Proficient with infrastructure as code and automation: Terraform / CloudFormation, Ansible, Helm, and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Solid git workflows and experience building pipeline templates, branch protections and merge policies.
• Experience with container image security: scanning, signing, runtime hardening, and admission controls.
• Administration/troubleshooting experience for Windows and/or Linux servers.
• Familiar with security and compliance frameworks.
• Excellent written/verbal communication and documentation skills.
• NV1 security clearance required.

Applicants must be Australian Citizens to meet defence security requirements. 

Whats on offer?

We are a business that evolves by encouraging our people to grow, so you will bring a mindset, behaviour and skills to improve the business, processes and yourself. This will see you thrive and achieve the organisation goals whilst being focused on your personal development through formal and informal learning.

We value the health and wellbeing of our employees and offer true flexibility including working from home, compressed work weeks, and opportunities for part time arrangements, allowing you to balance your career with what is important to you outside of work. We will celebrate your successes and achievements with a formal reward and recognition program and employee awards.

Other benefits

• Work on cutting edge projects;
• Attractive remuneration and annual bonus;
• Formal mentoring and training as well as on the job learning;
• Access discounts for health insurance, travel and accommodation;
• Paid study leave, parental leave, Defence leave and First Nations Cultural Leave;
• Salary packaging options available;
• Health and wellbeing benefits including annual flu vaccinations and Employee Assistance Program;
• Join social and community groups; and
• We explore opportunities to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander programs and initiatives focusing on STEM engagements.

Boeing Defence Australia works with strong links to our global Boeing community and encourage collaboration with our USA and international counterparts. Boeing aims to build and strengthen meaningful relationships with individuals, communities and suppliers to benefit Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with the support of our Reconciliation Action Plan.

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