Junior DevOps Engineer

About us

Catalyst is a New Zealand owned technology business who have been delivering expert open source solutions to clients for over 20 years. We have over 300 staff around the world in a range of locations: consultants, developers, trainers, designers – all focused on our core goal of enabling success for our clients with open source!  

We are looking for someone to join our Open Knowledge team, who specialise in the design, development and hosting of mission critical platforms including LMS and ePortfolio systems.

About the role

We support over 100 high-value sites for a range of clients. That includes education providers, private businesses and government departments. Your role will be to assist us to further our automation of that work: building of sites, testing, security updates and feature upgrades as we approach a refresh of our support infrastructure.  

About you

You will have a good understanding of using the Linux command line, a good knowledge of open source application stacks and IP networking, strong scripting ability in your chosen language and good knowledge of IT security practices.

You’ll need to be comfortable working with a diverse range of stakeholders, including other teams within our company and our array of clients, so top notch communication skills are key. Occasional out of hours work may be required (once every few months).

We’d like to hear from you if you have experience with or interest in the following:

• Continuous integration and continuous deployment
   
• Cloud provisioning
   
• Automated testing
   
• Systems performance debug/investigation skills
   
• Python, Ansible, Puppet, Docker/Kubernetes, Git, Nginx, HAProxy, Postgres, Redis, GitLab CI/GoCD, Bash
   

Why you’ll love working at Catalyst

Catalyst is a team of committed, enthusiastic, talented and passionate people with a strong set of proudly-held values around open source software. If you haven’t yet been introduced to the world of open source, let us show you! We champion open source technology because we know it gives people more freedom to innovate and grow. We believe open source values enable the world to be a better place.

We give back to the community by hosting and sponsoring a wide range of meet ups, conferences and other community events including our Academy, which gives high school students two weeks of running real-life projects with teams here at Catalyst.  

Most importantly, being a good employer is really important to us. We make sure everyone has the support they need to develop their skills and further their career, and seek new opportunities around the business if they’re keen for a change. We offer lots of different types of training, and if you have a skill you want to share with the rest of Catalyst you can have a go at being the trainer yourself!

We look after your well-being not just with health insurance and flexible working, but also by having strongly held values around building a respectful, inclusive community.  

Our hiring processes reflect our diversity policy which you can read in full here: https://www.catalyst.net.nz/content/catalyst-diversity-policy