Full-Time

Senior DevOps Engineer

DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure

Posted on 8/28/2025

Coates Group

Coates Group

201-500 employees

End-to-end digital signage for QSRs

No salary listed

Sydney NSW, Australia

Hybrid

This is a hybrid role, which typically implies a mix of remote work and in-office days.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure (1)
Required Skills
Agile
CloudFormation
Microservices
AWS
Terraform
Ansible
DevOps
Linux/Unix
Requirements
  • Min 3-5 years experience working within software development or platform engineering teams.
  • Experience in Agile methodology
  • IaC experience essential in cloudformation, terraform or AWS CDK – at least 1 out of 3
  • Strong knowledge of AWS, EC2, Lambda, Sqs
  • Solid grasp of advanced serverless and containerized work loads
  • Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu) desirable
  • Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible desirable
  • Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch
  • Deep understanding of architectural patterns for modern software stacks e.g. distributed architectures and microservices
Responsibilities
  • Working closely with the DevOps Lead in developing proposals and strategies
  • Responsible for identifying the need for automation across the development teams, finding ways to optimisation / automation
  • Researching, analysing and finding best practice solutions that align to the program needs
  • Able to collaborate and implement DevOps principles within squads.
  • Identifying security solutions
  • Proposes changes to the system architecture in order to enhance
  • Proactively champions, identifies & implements new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure​
  • Manage and maintain 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally
  • Manage a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices​
  • Follow system monitoring and respond 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​
  • Develops documentation to support Devops​
  • Proactively sees problems and solutions with the tech lead
Desired Qualifications
  • Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu) desirable
  • Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible desirable
  • Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch

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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