DevOps Engineer

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people

Roster: Monday to Friday 

Fortescue is transforming its business through Artificial Intelligence, bringing our unique culture of innovation and leading through doing to transform our asset and employee productivity.

The key mission of this role will be to support our modern data engineering platform to enable AI-driven decision-making within operations.

The right candidate will bring an understanding of the deployment, tooling and platform support required to enable modern data engineering teams to focus on the development of reliable data pipelines to improve data accessibility and manage technical debt, and a passion for automation, scalability, and performance optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Designing, maintaining, and automating cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Developing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines for back-end systems, APIs, databases, and server-side applications to ensure smooth and reliable deployments.
• Collaborating with development and operations teams to diagnose and resolve performance and reliability issues across the technology stack.
• Creating and maintaining new data pipelines using cloud infrastructure.
• Implementing proactive monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
• Ensuring infrastructure adheres to best practices in security, reliability, and performance optimisation.
• Participating in code reviews, providing and receiving constructive feedback.
• Mentoring team members in DevOps principles and promote automation and reliability engineering across the organisation.
• Participating in agile ceremonies, maintaining ticket status, and maintaining a high standard of documentation.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM field — or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in DevOps, Data Engineering or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and their core services and Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform & Cloudformation, with relevant certifications (i.e. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Terraform Associate) a plus.
• Proficiency in modern data engineering languages, including Python and SQL.
• Experience with common tools used for CI/CD for DataOps, including familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with data and analytics concepts such as ETL, data pipelines and dimensional modeling.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
• Proficient with version control systems, especially Git.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.