Senior Software Engineer-1

Employment Type Permanent Closing Date 4 Oct :59pm Job Title Senior Software Engineer-1

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.Job Description

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you thrive on understanding and translating customer needs into new products and capability. You apply deep technical expertise and experience in software application layer solutions, to develop and deliver scalable design blueprints across the end-to-end software development life cycle. Your continuous learning and improvement mindset, collaboration and influencing skills are critical to success in this role.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you apply deep experience and technical know-how in the Software Engineering domain to:
• Design, build and maintain multiple complex software application technologies and their interaction with Telstra processes and systems
• Develop innovative software that maintains data/network security management, and leverage set processes to reduce the time between commission and production
• Authentically engage with and influence a multi-stakeholder landscape to translate customer needs into leading-edge software application products, services or systems that meet Telstra’s time, cost and quality standards
• Collaborate with team members and key stakeholders, seeking support, direction and buy-in to gather deep insights about the challenges and opportunities of our software application technologies and platforms
• Significantly contribute to continuous improvement initiatives of our systems and processes, to help define ‘best practice’ corporate testing standards and drive improved outcomes (e.g. productivity, customer experience and/or profitability)
• Lead initiatives or components of initiatives in line with the strategic direction of your team/mission, that have a significant degree of impact to the function or cross-functionally
• Take ownership of your own actions and decisions to drive positive outcomes within your team/mission, and provide guidance to more junior engineers in order to support their development and contribution to team/mission outcomes

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team supporting a key Telstra initiative. This role demands a strong background in CI/CD tools, containerization, cloud platforms, and infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing and optimizing DevOps pipelines and environments at scale, with a passion for automation, efficiency, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab, Jenkins , and Bamboo .

• Build and maintain container images using Docker, Kaniko , and Buildah .

• Manage and orchestrate containers using Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Rancher , and EKS .

• Operate and support multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure , and PCF (Pivotal Cloud Foundry) .

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef , and Puppet .

• Troubleshoot and optimize GitLab environments and pipelines, ensuring system reliability and performance.

• Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to ensure best practices and compliance in deployment processes.

• Contribute to system architecture, security design, and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo ).

• 5+ years of experience with container build tools (Docker, Kaniko, Buildah ).

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Rancher, EKS ).

• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, PCF, Azure ).

• 3+ years working with infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet ).

• Strong experience in GitLab operations and CI/CD pipeline debugging.

• Excellent scripting and automation skills (e.g., Bash, Python, Shell).

• Good understanding of DevSecOps principles and practices.

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