Slalom

Slalom is a purpose-driven consulting company focused on strategy, technology and business transformation. Founded in 2001, we had a simple goal - build a company where people love their work and love their life. As we continue to grow in Australia, we have a responsibility and opportunity to do good in the world. We’re committed to building our business in ways that are sustainable and responsible, while creating innovative solutions to the world’s biggest challenges. We have bold aspirations for the future and together with our people, partners and customers, we take measurable actions for today.

Senior Engineer - Platform Engineering

Slalom cloud solutions team build systems to help our clients solve their most complex business challenges. Our diverse teams are invigorated by new challenges and aren’t shy to seek out new learning opportunities or challenge the status quo.

What you’ll do 

Senior Engineer defines the complex automation tasks and cloud architecture components for a given solution. Your role is to maximize velocity for platform and environment enablement for developers through leveraging a DevOps mindset and focus. Specifically, you will: 

• Advocate for DevOps culture, tooling, delivery methods, and cultural practices within Slalom and our clients. 
• Assist with estimating work efforts and story pointing required for each phase of an agile project. 
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to peers, less experienced engineers, and client personnel. 
• Identify, qualify, and raise technical risks and issues. 
• Help grow our culture of learning by taking part in and coordinating opportunities such as presenting at technical conferences, community groups, writing blog articles, and contributing to partner-coordinated workshops 

What will you’ll bring 

• Bring strong experience in software engineering and DevOps, particularly in production environments using AWS
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines
• Apply expertise in configuration management and infrastructure as code, using tools such as:

o Chef, Puppet, Ansible

o Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM

• Contribute to security-focused engineering practices, including:

o Identity and access management

o Firewall configuration

o Fundamental cloud security principles

• Collaborate across cross-functional and technical teams to deliver Agile-based projects
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and eagerness to learn new technologies quickly
• Use acquired knowledge to solve practical business problems for customers
• Communicate effectively with clients at a business level
• Translate customer needs into technical solutions to help maximize team velocity

Our Values

There’s work - life and life- life. And we think it’s time they got together for good. Calibrated to your needs and to your life, we want every builder to be happy, healthy, supported, and inspired. Every day. For this reason, we offer health and well-being, learning and growth, and tech perks (to name a few). We also provide a welcoming place to connect and share experiences and perspectives through our Employee Resource Groups. So that every builder feels safe to be themselves everywhere.

Slalom prides itself on helping our team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in our team members with competitive and innovative benefit programs and services that meet the unique needs of our diverse workforce

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