DevOps SRE Engineer - Rio Tinto, Perth

About the role

Rio Tinto, a global mining and materials company, is looking for an experienced DevOps SRE Engineer based at its Perth Central Park offices, with a 12-month assignment via Chandler Macleod. The role reports to the Principal Software (ADS + SCT) and supports operational and business outcomes within a team focused on safety, collaboration and operational excellence. Hybrid working is an option.

Key responsibilities

• Take ownership of the operational reliability of production systems.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, build and deployment processes, monitoring, logging and telemetry.
• Identify and resolve issues affecting system reliability, including root cause analysis and prevention.
• Automate, optimise and scale infrastructure through code and tooling.
• Support systems at remote mine sites with restricted connectivity alongside central cloud, network and security teams.

Required profile

• DevOps / SRE experience supporting production-grade systems and improving operational reliability.
• Experience supporting systems used at remote operations and working with cloud, network and security teams.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Dedication to everyone's safety.
• Ability to pass pre-employment medical and other testing.

Required skills

• Linux and Windows environments
• CI/CD and containers/orchestration
• Observability and automation

What we offer

• A competitive hourly pay range paid weekly
• Superannuation on all hours worked
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program
• A dedicated Chandler-Rio Tinto support team
• Simple digital onboarding and access to future Rio Tinto assignments