Shape your future with a career at Shell Energy.
Shell Energy combines deep expertise and true innovation to help our electricity and gas customers navigate a rapidly changing market. We’re seeking people who bring the drive to succeed in providing the energy businesses and households need for today and tomorrow.
Shell Energy is shaping the future of cleaner, smarter energy solutions across Australia. We’re seeking a skilled Senior Engineer to support the secure, reliable, and efficient operation of our applications enabling our teams to deliver exceptional outcomes for customers and communities.
If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, collaborating with technical teams, and driving continuous improvement, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
As our Senior Engineer, you will support the day-to-day performance and stability of critical applications, contribute to engineering design, and ensure our systems meet security, availability, and compliance requirements. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams, mentor other engineers, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance system performance and resilience.
With respect, integrity and honesty, responsibilities include:
Monitor and maintain the performance, security, and availability of key applications.
Triage, prioritise, and resolve incidents across multiple platforms and sources.
Contribute to engineering design, development, testing, validation, and documentation.
Perform security audits, backups, disaster recovery, and business continuity activities.
Stay up to date with emerging technologies and apply best-practice engineering standards.
Mentor and support engineers, fostering collaboration, capability growth, and knowledge sharing.
Here’s what you’ll need to thrive in this role:
Experience across software development, Agile delivery, and modern engineering practices.
Strong understanding of infrastructure components (servers, storage, networks, databases).
Hands-on experience with DevOps tooling, CI/CD pipelines, automation and containerisation.
Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, C#, Typescript) and cloud technologies (AWS ideal).
Knowledge of ITIL processes, cybersecurity principles, and compliance requirements.
Excellent problem-solving skills, communication, and the ability to work collaboratively with technical and business teams.
Why join our team
Every day, our people bring deep expertise, true innovation to help our customers meet their energy goals.
Here are the top reasons why out people choose us
● Purpose that is making a positive impact for our customers’ energy future. It’s not just about selling energy; it’s about delivering outcomes for our customers that empower them to stay ahead in a changing market.
● Work that’s interesting, innovative and high impact. We hope you’ll love the challenge and opportunity to achieve - for our customers and for you.
● People who bring the expertise and drive to succeed. Our team is respectful, inclusive, and supports connection and collaboration.
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Shell Energy is Shell’s renewables and energy solutions business in Australia, helping its customers to decarbonise and reduce their environmental footprint. The company combines deep expertise, innovation and investment to lead the change, and energise tomorrow.
Shell Energy delivers business energy solutions and innovation across a portfolio of electricity, gas, environmental products and energy productivity for commercial and industrial customers, while our residential energy retailing business Powershop, serves households and small business customers across Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and South East Queensland.
As the second largest electricity provider to commercial and industrial businesses in Australia, Shell Energy offers integrated solutions and market-leading customer satisfaction, built on industry expertise and personalised relationships. We’re helping to shape Australia’s renewable energy landscape by building a diverse and integrated portfolio which includes interests in solar, wind and battery energy storage systems. Our generation assets include the 120-megawatt Gangarri solar farm in Queensland, and 662 megawatts of gas-fired peaking power stations in Western Australia and Queensland, supporting the transition to renewables.
