Senior DevOps Engineer(001-00179)

​​Looking for Filipino (Philippines-based) candidates

Job Role: Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary range:        Up to $4,000 AUD per month, depending on experience

Engagement type: Independent Contractor Agreement

Work Schedule: This role is expected to align with the AU business hours (approx. 9 AM - 5 PM, Monday to Friday) for collaboration, but as a contractor, you’ll have flexibility in how you manage your time.

Who We Are: At Hunt St we help Australian companies directly hire top 5% remote talent in the Philippines. You will be hired directly by the client, typically as an independent contractor. We are not an outsourcing agency. All of our roles are 100% remote so you'll be able to work from home. 

Who The Client Is: We provide solutions to financial businesses and their customers across Australia, New Zealand and Canada. We have been a gateway to financial products and services for millions of people a year since 2013. They gather and analyse financial transactions and deliver highly accurate and actionable insights to lenders and other businesses in real-time. Helping people connect with businesses, share information safely and easily, and achieve their goals faster.

Role Overview: We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team. This role is critical to the development and deployment of our infrastructure, ensuring robust CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), cloud environment optimization, and seamless collaboration across development, QA, and operations teams. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, performance, scalability, and reliability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and improving the resiliency of our core applications and our hybrid infrastructure platform
• Providing continued improvement to the platform infrastructure through automation and standardisation
• Providing complementary skills and expertise to the teams and continuously learning from peers and seniors.
• Ensuring that all of our core services are up to date and security patched
• Working closely with development teams to ensure applications are configured for security, efficiency and scalability.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Linux native, if you do not use Linux as your preferred OS this may not be the role for you
• Great communication skills (verbal and written)
• Strong experience with the following:

1. Linux administration
2. Bash scripting
3. Kubernetes
4. Docker
5. AWS

• Good knowledge of networking, DNS, load balancing and CDN's

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Terraform and Ansible
• Experience working on and supporting container-based CI/CD pipelines
• Keen interest in SecOps practices
• AWS Certifications (we will fully support any AWS certification you are seeking)
• Experience configuring observability platforms for monitoring and alerting (including Prometheus and New Relic)
• Experience with Hashicorp vault, Redis, RabbitMQ or MSSQL
• Experience with any programming languages (i.e. Node JS, PHP, Typescript, Python)

Work Arrangement & Expectations:

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement.

To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:

• Be available for meetings and collaboration during core [AEST or PHT] business hours
• Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
• Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)