We’re Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we’ve flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.
Impressive numbers? What's even more impressive is the team of extraordinary people taking off together day in day out, flight after flight.
Our people are the real jet stars!
Job Description- Build the reliable cloud foundations that help Jetstar think smarter and move faster.
- Flexible ways of working – hybrid model with 3 days onsite
- Permanent opportunity, based at our head office in Collingwood, Melbourne
If you’ve ever thought about a career in aviation — now is the perfect time to take off with Jetstar! We are undertaking one of the biggest recruitment campaigns in our 20-year-history. Join us during an exciting period as we welcome more state-of-the-art aircraft, launch new international routes and continue our mission to help more people take off through low fares.
Our team sits at the intersection of innovation and reliability, delivering cloud‑native capabilities that power critical decision‑making across Jetstar’s complex aviation ecosystem.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be part of the Engineering Team working on Jetstar’s Modern Cloud Data Platform, within a centralised and maturing DevOps/SRE practice spanning the full Data & Analytics value chain, including advanced analytics, automation, machine learning, and AI.
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who wants to shape how the organisation thinks, learns, and makes decisions by building reliable, secure, and observable foundations that enable teams to move fast with confidence.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Define and enforce reliability standards, SLOs/SLIs, and resilience patterns
- Drive DevOps and SRE practices to improve delivery speed and reliability
- Own infrastructure design balancing scalability, performance, and cost
- Define observability standards (monitoring, logging, alerting)
- Embed security, compliance, and risk controls by design
- Act as a senior technical authority and mentor engineers
To be considered for this role, you will have:
- Experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or SRE in enterprise environments
- Experience supporting data platforms and analytics workloads
- Expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- CI/CD pipeline design and operations
- Strong knowledge of SRE principles and incident management
- Kubernetes and containerisation experience
- Security-by-design and secure pipeline practices
- FinOps and cloud cost management experience
- Strong AWS experience (EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, SNS, MWAA, IAM, Secrets Manager)
Application closes on 26th April apply at the earliest to be considered!
Your life at Jetstar is unlike any other..
Live the travel dream: You and your nominated travel companions can take-off more with our famous Qantas Group Staff Travel discount.
Make work feel like a holiday: Join a fun, driven team where work feels like a holiday. Our people take every opportunity to take-off together and find ways to help their teammates soar.
There’s a place for everyone at Jetstar: For us, travel and meeting new people go hand in hand. We invite our people to get involved in various Employee Network Groups that play an important role in creating our inclusive and supportive culture that we are fiercely proud of. We believe that teams with a diversity of ideas and experiences are more creative, innovative and solve problems quickly. We welcome applications from anyone who wants to take-off with us. If you have support or access requirements, just reach out and let us know what you need.
We’re Jetstar. Let’s take-off together!
