Full-Time

Operations Engineer

Posted on 10/3/2025

Coates Group

Coates Group

201-500 employees

End-to-end digital signage for QSRs

No salary listed

Sydney NSW, Australia

Hybrid

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Bash
Python
Computer Networking
Docker
CloudFormation
Microservices
AWS
DevOps
Linux/Unix
Serverless
Requirements
  • Highly knowledgeable of AWS
  • Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker
  • Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members
  • Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions
  • Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting
  • Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu)
  • Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation)
  • Experience in configuration management tools
  • Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch
Responsibilities
  • Working alongside a DevOps culture
  • Familiarity with DevOps principles - automation, CI/CD pipelines, collaboration, etc
  • Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs
  • Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform
  • Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally
  • Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices
  • Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime
  • Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products
  • Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure
  • Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments

Coates Group provides digital signage and customer experience solutions for Quick Service Restaurants. It offers digital menu boards, self-service kiosks, and content management systems, along with hardware, software, installation, and ongoing support. The system combines displays and interactive kiosks with a central content platform to create, schedule, and push menus and messages across multiple locations, while technicians install and maintain the setup. Its goal is to help QSR brands improve the customer experience and drive sales by offering end-to-end, location-wide digital signage management for large chains and independents.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Newtown Township, Pennsylvania

Founded

2003

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • signageOS partnership powers Switchboard on Samsung screens for scalability.
  • Elo Touch deploys tens of thousands of kiosks enhancing QSR journeys.
  • Traditional signage like pylons maximizes QSR brand ROI worldwide.

What critics are saying

  • McDonald's in-house tech eliminates 25-40% revenue in 12-24 months.
  • Samsung/LG direct sales undercut margins in 6-18 months.
  • Toast/Shopify POS integration obsoletes Switchboard in 12-24 months.

What makes Coates Group unique

  • Switchboard CMS integrates POS systems with license plate recognition for drive-thru targeting.
  • VR showroom in Chicago enables QSR clients to test digital signage pre-build.
  • Global McDonald's provider since 1970s for menu boards and kiosks.

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Benefits

Performance Bonus

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Sick Leave

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