Digital Environment Manager

Overview:

• Full-time, Continuing position
• Based at the Melbourne CBD campus, and hybrid ways of working
• New position for our Architecture & Software Engineering team

About the role

At RMIT, the Digital Environment Manager resides within the Digital Release Team and is primarily responsible for the management of all non-production environments for RMIT’s Salesforce and Adobe implementations.

Working with the Release and QA functions and System Administrators, you will ensure that environments necessary for the development and testing of deployments and releases are provisioned and refreshed in a timely manner.  In doing so, they will plan, develop and implement solutions to automate and speed up activities within their remit in order to promote the wider DevOps philosophy under which ITS is operating.

Day to day activities under the remit of the Digital Environment Manager include, but are not limited to:

• The provision of development, test and pre-production platforms from infrastructure up
• The refresh of these environments (where applicable) with obfuscated test data in line with cybersecurity policies on data management
• Working with delivery leads and Release Managers to plan and deliver on environment requirements
• Monitoring environments and leading defect triage and remediation activities.

This position is also responsible for working with the DevOps Lead and the DevOps community of practice to innovate in the area of environment management through process improvement, automation and site reliability practices.
 

About you

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, particularly in communicating new ideas and leading through change, as well as communicating with and mentoring at all levels in an organisation from developers to senior managers.

Strong practical experience with cloud engineering and containerisation concepts

Strong practical experience with tooling and languages associated with cloud, infrastructure as code and site reliability engineering (e.g. Splunk, Terraform, AWS CloudWatch, New Relic)

Strong practical experience with ops observability practices such as setting Service Level Objectives and Error Budget Policies.

Experience with scripting languages (e.g. YAML, Python, Perl).

Experience with DevSecOps transformations.

Knowledgeable about SAAS/PAAS digital platforms (especially Salesforce and Adobe Experience Manager)

Knowledgeable about CI/CD architecture, practices and toolsets.

Knowledgeable about industry standard DevOps tools (e.g. Maven, BitBucket, AWS Code Pipelines, Splunk)

Check out the Digital Environment Manager PD for full details.

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children and National Police Check.

About the Portfolio

Information Technology Services Information Technology Services (ITS) provides RMIT University with Information and Communication Technology systems and services. Our role is to support RMIT’s high quality teaching, learning, research and administrative activities.

Information Technology is of increasing importance to the research, teaching and learning life of a university, particularly a ‘global university of technology and design’ like RMIT. 

Website:  www.rmit.edu.au/its

To Apply 

Please submit your CV and covering letter addressing your suitability for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply’ link below.

For further information or a confidential chat, please contact Margaret Cook on [email protected] or (03) 9925 9092

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Applications Close:
24 Oct 2022 11.59 pm

RMIT is an equal opportunity employer committed to  being  a child safe organisation. We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Isla n der community.  

RMIT is a Disability Confident Recruitment Team and we are happy to adjust the recruitment process for your accessibility requirements. Please contact us at [email protected] telling us your preferred type of communication and we will be in touch as soon as possible to discuss your requirements.

 

Please note that whilst we still accept applications from any persons interested in our roles, due to the impacts of COVID-19, we are currently prioritising applications from those with current working rights in Australia and who are not affected by travel restrictions. Please see the latest updates to Australia’s immigration and border arrangements during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak here .

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