DevOps Manager (VIC)

About the position

About our DevOps Manager Role:

• Want to impress with your skills in DevOps and technical leadership?
• How about working in a well-established and mature Australian Software Development and vendor Company with more than 1500 clients and nearly 500 staff?
• Support and collaboration with your team-mates. We’re a friendly bunch.
• Work closely with engineers, developers, QA, security and IT.
• Hybrid Work Arrangement: find some flexibility in your working week in consultation with your team (the best of both worlds!) 

Where you’d be working:

Pronto Cloud is part of Pronto Software based in Forest Hill VIC and is responsible for delivering IaaS, PaaS & SaaS to support enterprise solutions including the Pronto Xi ERP to our customers. We operate in a virtualised environment built around VMWare, Linux and Windows. Pronto Cloud performs various services for our customers either in our private cloud environment across five datacentres or as a management service for our on-premises customers.

 

What you’d be doing:

The DevOps Manager is a strategic and hands-on leader role that will oversee a high-performing team of engineers, sets the vision for automation, reliability, and scalability, and ensures continuous improvement in software delivery and infrastructure operations. The DevOps Manager plays a critical role in aligning technology operations with business goals, ensuring high availability of services, and enabling rapid and secure deployment of applications.

 

DevOps Manager role details (your day would look like this):

• Provide strategic direction and leadership to the DevOps team, aligning efforts with broader business and technology objectives.
• Define and drive the adoption of DevOps practices, tools, and culture across Pronto Software engineering and operations teams.
• Act as the principal advisor to senior leadership on DevOps strategy, capability development, and risk mitigation.

• Define team goals, manage performance, and oversee hiring, onboarding and professional development.

• Oversee the design, implementation, and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Drive continuous integration, delivery, and deployment strategies that enhance speed and reliability.
• Implement and monitor robust SRE practices to ensure system performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Partner closely with Software Development, Security, Infrastructure, and Product teams to align DevOps capabilities with business needs.
• Lead technical reviews and provide expert guidance on Cloud architecture, tooling, and deployment strategies.

• Champion security-first principles, embedding DevSecOps practices in all DevOps processes. 

About you

We’re looking for a new Pronto Cloud employee who has:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure roles.
• 3+ years in a technical leadership or management role with proven team-building success.
• Expertise in leading DevOps at scale within cloud-native environments.
• Proven track record implementing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code.
• In depth experience with containerisation and orchestration of best practices.
• Strong stakeholder management, negotiation and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sound knowledge of monitoring, observability, and incident management frameworks.

 

To enjoy being a Pronto Cloud Employee you’d need to have:

• Be highly organised, able to manage multiple tasks occurring over a number of projects.
• Strong documentation, written and verbal communication skills.
• A flexible, “can do” attitude.
• Lateral thinker.
• Team player.

 

What you will get:

• Salary commensurate with experience, with annual reviews plus a range of employee benefits.
• Supportive and collaborative team environment.
• A hybrid working environment (split your week, flexible location arrangements).
• A cross-functional team (Infra, Network, Security).
• The ability to develop your career and experience.

 

Note: Our employees need to undergo a Police Check

Sounds good? Apply now through Seek, please include a brief letter of application and your CV.

 

More about Pronto Software:

We are an Australian developer of award-winning business management and analytics solutions. Pronto Xi, our ERP software, integrates accounting, operational and mobile features in a single system – optimising business processes and unlocking actionable insights. Over 1,500 organisations have leveraged our industry experience and innovation to increase growth and revenue.

We have an enviable reputation for employee loyalty and service. Pronto Software survey our staff every year, and we’re proud we have a very high percentage (high 90s %) of staff who agree that:

• They are proud to work at Pronto Software and are passionate about the work they do
• Staff and managers choose to have a professional and positive attitude
• Pronto Software tries to achieve the best outcomes for customers and staff
• Pronto is generous and giving to the community
• Staff would recommend Pronto Software as a great place to work