Introduction
Kablamo is an innovative and agile digital product development company, recognised for our diverse team and cutting-edge solutions. Founded in 2017, we have built a strong reputation and an amazing list of customers, including some of the best-known enterprise and government organisations in Australia and Canada.
As an established Advanced AWS Consulting partner and Google Cloud Partner, we are at the forefront of AI-centric software and product development. Our current engagements include multi-agent AI systems that automate complex enterprise workflows, including work with major Australian media organisations, where product and delivery sit at the intersection of AI design, data integration, and real business impact. We’ve been recognised globally, including AWS Public Sector’s global award for “Most Innovative AI/ML Solution” for our bushfire intelligence platform.
Underpinning everything we build is a world-class cloud infrastructure. As we scale our AI-driven products and take on more complex enterprise and government engagements, we’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who can help us build the secure, automated, and resilient platforms our work demands.
The Role
Our DevOps Engineers play a critical role in Kablamo’s cross-functional Agile product development teams. They are responsible for designing and building best-practice, secure and automated cloud environments, which are capable of scaling to handle millions of users and almost limitless amounts of data. Kablamo is proud to be one of AWS’s leading partners in Australia, and our DevOps Engineers are all incredibly passionate about the AWS cloud and its ecosystem.
As part of our DevOps team, you will join a very strong technical community of engineers with deep experience working across different industries and use cases. You will have a chance to work on unique and exciting projects, such as, for example, the implementation of a world-leading bushfire data/AI platform for one of Australia’s largest fire service agencies or help develop one of the internal company’s products targeted at the prospective clients. We work very closely with AWS, and Kablamo’s Cloud Principal is an AWS Community Hero.
Required skills and experience:
- Extensive cloud experience with AWS (VPC, EC2, Route53, IAM, STS, RDS, API GW) with a strong emphasis on security and well-architected solutions
- Sound grasp of security best practices in the cloud architectures
- Familiarity with configuration management (experience with Ansible, Puppet or Chef is a bonus)
- Being competent in configuring and administering a Linux system, including knowledge and experience with Bash
- Solid coding/scripting skills in at least 1 major language with a strong preference for one of the following:
- Strong experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform and AWS CloudFormation preferred)
- Solid experience in building and maintaining Docker images
- Understanding of and hands-on experience in using CI/CD tools such as AWS CodePipeline, TeamCity, Bamboo, GoCD, or Concourse CI
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP, networking and routing protocols
- Experience in implementing CDN/DDoS/WAF technologies
- Strong understanding and experience with Identity & Access Management solutions
- Experience in Web and API development and architectures (Event Driven, Microservices, SOA)
Desirable skills and experience:
- AWS Associate and/or Professional Level Certifications
- Experience working in Agile software and product development teams
- Experience with AWS’s Machine Learning/AI suite, including SageMaker, Rekognition, Transcribe etc
- Experience with AWS CloudFront & WAF or Akamai / Cloudflare
- Experience with Docker clustering and management
- Experience with AWS’s Big Data & Analytics services, such as Glue, Redshift etc
- Cloud migration and delivery exposure
Key responsibilities:
- Be passionate about the cloud and its potential to enable amazing digital products, to solve complex problems and liberate huge data sets
- Be on a life-long journey of learning, always curious to build their knowledge and to share what they know with their peers
- Manage the successful outcomes of all deliverables within the resource and time constraints as defined by the DevOps Manager and Delivery lead
- Participate in project stand-ups by effectively communicating status and impediments to progress
- Attend iteration planning sessions and participate in the sizing of the testing effort required to complete stories, ensuring external dependencies are considered
- Work closely and communicate effectively with the development team and product stakeholders to ensure project outcomes adhere to agreed quality standards
- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS, following well-architected framework principles
- Own and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and safe delivery of software to production
- Continuously monitor and optimise cloud spend, identifying waste and rightsizing resources without compromising performance
- Identify and manage security risks across cloud environments, escalating critical threats to senior leadership and driving continuous improvement of security practices
- Conduct regular security reviews, implement hardening measures, and remediate vulnerabilities across cloud environments
- Produce and maintain infrastructure documentation, runbooks, and architecture decision records (ADRs)
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to DevOps guild knowledge-sharing sessions
