Software DevOps Lead

We are hiring at Wageloch and Easy Employer for a DevOps Manager to join our growing team in Adelaide or Melbourne!

This position is a leadership role focusing on optimizing our software delivery process, ensuring the stability and scalability of our systems, and fostering a collaborative culture between the software development teams!

Here is a little window into our company: Wageloch and Easy Employer are workforce management software providers in Australia that provide rostering time and attendance solutions to Australia and New Zealand. The team works closely in the office and from home to deliver great service to our clients. You will be responsible for joining the team and helping to promote a good safe healthy working environment and strong communication.

Wageloch and Easy Employer were acquired by Valsoft, which owns, operates and manages a global portfolio of software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals.

The successful candidate will work in a hybrid work model from our offices in Adelaide or Melbourne!

What your day will look like:

• Manage teams that impact two businesses
• Supervising between 15-20 employees
• A client base of approximately 2600 clients, Australia-wide
• Lead the collaboration and management of software ad operations teams
• Oversee the design, implementation and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines while automating processes to improve the speed and reliability of deployments
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure while ensuring high scalability and disaster recovery
• Maintain sturdy monitoring and alert systems to ensure proactive detection of issues
• Evaluate and enforce security compliance and industry best practice
• Mentor the technical teams in modern software development practices, software architecture and cloud infrastructure
• Manage vulnerability assessments and patching processes
• Drive incident response, post-mortem analysis, and implement lessons learned to improve incident response times and systems reliability
• Guide the development teams in modernizing their applications and migrating to true cloud architectures
• Manage and deliver to budgets, including resource allocation, and ensuring tool investments align with business needs
• Working across software development, Infrastructure, QA, and leadership team

About You:

• At least 8+ years of Software engineering experience with at least 4+ years managing SAAS development teams, including developing talent
• Strong knowledge of Scrum and Agile Methodologies/SCRUM Master
• At least a Bachelor’s or above in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Strong knowledge of software architecture and design principles

·         Financial acumen in managing budgets, optimizing cloud costs, and making sound investment decisions for toolchains and infrastructure.

·         Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, and experience with scalability and resilience strategies (e.g., microservices, container orchestration, serverless functions).

·         Strong ability to advocate and build a culture around DevOps best practices, inspiring development teams toward process automation, continuous improvement and cross-functional knowledge sharing.

·         Security compliance expertise, including knowledge of security best practices, vulnerability management, and familiarity with certifications like ISO 27001 or SOC2.

• Knowledge of modern frontend and backend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Node.js, etc.)
• Excellent project management and organizational skills
• Strong problem-solving abilities and attention to detail
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities
• Cloud Platforms and infrastructure management – AWS, EC2, S3, Fargate
• CI/CD pipelines, automation and infrastructure as code – Terraform
• Containerisation and orchestration – Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, Kubernetes (optional)
• Version Control systems – GitHub, Gitlab
• Database management – Microsoft SQL server, Mongo DB (Atlas), RDS (Maria DB)
• Programming languages – VB.Net, C#, React, Python, PHP (Hack)
• Atlassian toolsets – Jira, Confluence
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal, is essential
• Legally authorized to work in Australia

For further information about Wageloch and EasyEmployer, you can visit our website at: https://wageloch.com.au and https://easyemployer.com.au

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.