About the role

This is a great first or second step for someone that wants to run a real production environment and support a product that makes a difference. Working as a Junior Systems and Support Engineer, you'll be responsible for a range of tasks under the supervision of our CTO and Principal Engineer, overseeing the day-to-day monitoring, support and administration of our corporate and production environments.

Key responsibilities

- Administration of AWS production and development environments including scripting of changes through Terraform

- Monitoring production and development environments for performance, security and availability

- Administration of third party SaaS products used by the development and operations teams

- Supporting the development team with incidents, technical issues and troubleshooting, including responding to level 2/level 3 customer technical support and outages

- Administration of MacOS and Linux endpoint fleet/MDM, including key business apps such as Google Workspace and the Atlassian suite

- Management and enhancement of Bitbucket pipelines and deployment processes

- Support production updates and releases of the SaaS FireMapper platform

About you

- An engineering, IT or computer science graduate with excellent results

- Experience working within AWS including services such as RDS Postgres, ECS, Elasticache, EC2, WAF

- Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, WAN/LAN, routing and firewalls

- Experience with containerised workloads such as Docker





- Familiarity with administration or support of corporate environments including MacOS/iOS/Android endpoints and a range of 3rd party SaaS products such as Google Workspace and Atlassian tools

- Exposure to Git and version control workflows, and tools such as Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket

- Exposure to basic software/scripting tasks such as with Python

- Exposure to Terraform or other similar technologies for managing AWS environments

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Available to work full-time and willing to travel within Australia if required

About us

Fire Front is a global leader in mapping and situational awareness software for emergency response. Our FireMapper Software-as-a-Service platform is used by more than 25,000 first responders across Australia, Recent Zealand, Canada and the United States. We provide integrated solutions that combine customer systems, firefighting aircraft and drones, and a wide range of sensors, cameras, satellites and technology. Our technology plays a critical role in combating bushfires, natural disasters and real-time emergency operations 24x7.

Benefits

- Work on technology that directly supports 24x7 emergency operations across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the US

- Mentorship from experienced developers working with modern technologies and best practices

- Being part of a small, collaborative team working 3-4 days per week from our St Leonards NSW office

- Modern and newly fitted out office environment with free drinks and cafe coffee

- Close to public transport (Metro and Rail) and shops

📌 Junior Systems and Support Engineer (North Sydney)
🏢 Fire Front Solutions
📍 North Sydney