Imagine this – it’s Monday morning. You’re working from the office today and you have a smile on your face as you leave your home for the trip into work. You know that when you arrive, you’ll be spending the day tinkering with the latest in technology software, security, production kit, and computers. You’ll be sharing a beverage of your choice with team mates who are excited to tell you about a client launch that’s about to happen or a workshop that will be hosted later in the week. You love these conversations because you’re aware that you’ll be part of these events during the week. Whether it’s ensuring the workshop set up has all the remote facilities it needs or reinforcing some of our technology infrastructure for an upcoming launch – you feel connected in the team.

This is a highlight of what life is like as an Augie, and particularly what life could be like for you if you become our Internal Systems Administrator. We have done a lot of work over the last few years to establish a strong foundation in latest hardware, a standard operating system, and delighting our clients with technology that is seamless. If you’re someone who is always looking for ways to make this area of a business better, more effective, maybe even more automated…and you’d like to do that within a team that values belonging, effort, and play, then we’d love to hear from you.

This role in the words of August team members

It’s not every day you get to hear about a role from the person who was in it, or who they work with. Take a look at these behind the scenes chats to learn more about this unique Internal Systems Administrator role and the quality team you’ll be working with.

The job in 55 words or less

• Set up and maintenance of team hardware - we're all Mac users and this will include support systems for provisioning our Standard Operating System.
• Studio hardware management - docking stations at our desks, monitors, conference hardware (we have a pretty awesome kit), and content studio hardware.
• User account management - setting up new August team members, making safe prior user accounts, day to day maintenance via on site DC and Office 365.
• Ensuring the in house network system is top notch - fileservers, back ups, studio internet connection, and VPN.

Does this sound like you?

• Minimum 6 years' experience in a Sys Admin or DevOps Engineer role (if you have slightly less experience, we still encourage you to apply!)
• Experience with, and an interest in, continuing to improve data and infrastructure security practices for our clients and us.
• Participating in a supportive culture where team conversations can revolve around belonging and feedback.
• While you can work autonomously, team and client connection and communication is important to you.
• A desire to learn new technologies, to push/challenge the technical capability within our team and to grow with the role, regardless of your experience.
• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or Electronics Engineering experience with set up and management of open source software stacks.

You get extra credit for

• Experience with becoming ISO certified
• Set up and training in AI models
• Qualifications in data security

What you will get

Working at August is not just another agency job. While we take our work seriously, we really enjoy the company of the people we work with and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. It takes time to find the right people to join our team. There’s a level of trust and flexibility that is hard to describe, but here goes nothing. You’ll enjoy the freedom to create and contribute to sophisticated projects the way you want, combined with a robustness of process that ensures you have total support to focus all your energy and inspiration on compelling design and technical challenges. If you’d like more detail, we’d love you to ask us about it!

Our values play an important part in everything we do at August. They help us deliver epic work for clients around the world and they’ve seen us through some difficult times. As a team member, you’ll continue to develop not just your technical craft, but other valuable qualities such as powerful communication skills, commercial and business nous, and handy insights into totally random stuff, like a quick and easy killer dumpling recipe, or the engineering magic behind the latest SpaceX test flight (again, you might want to ask us!). When we hire someone to join the team, we’re interested and invested in all the different parts that make up you – because ultimately, that’s what makes August.

As a team member, you can also expect:

• A competitive salary package with various incentives and rewards.
• Flexible and hybrid working is part of our daily jam.
• Working within a highly motivated, talented and technology–driven team.
• A team of people who will invest in your career progression
  and development.
• Generous company policies that help you grow and balance life.
• Many other perks we will discuss when we meet you.

Apply Now

Applications for this role are open now and we are actively hiring to fill this spot in our team.

If you have questions about this role or about August, feel free to contact us and ask for Sarah.

To apply for this position, you need to:

• Mention one of our clients in your application.
• Provide your CV, outlining your skills and experience.
• Include a covering letter explaining why you are perfect for this role.
• If you have a personal website or folio site, feel free to include it in your application; we’d love to check it out.

Are you a recruiter?

We understand you work in a competitive industry and you will be tempted to contact us with potential candidates for this and other listed roles. We respectfully request that you do not contact us regarding applicants for
this role and please do not send us unsolicited applications.

About August

August is an independent award-winning digital consultancy headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. We aim to nudge the world just enough to make a change. Help us to make it happen.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at August. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

No one at August has titles so this was was a tricky role to name! There are however, some titles you could attribute to this role that would make sense to someone outside August. These titles would sound like Hosting SysAdmin, Hosting Manager, Systems Administrator, DevOps Hosting…you get where we’re going?

You’ll become a custodian of our client hosting infrastructure and be able to deliver support that makes the Nights Watch look…a little tame. This role works predominantly with Hashistack in AWS. If you don’t have experience with that, don’t worry – we’re known for investing in our team and we’ll onboard you plus ensure you’re always supported. We’re a team after all.

When you’re working with the other developers and helping them out on code deploys, you’ll be working in your familiar environments of GitHub, BuildKite, and Docker. We love open source and expect that you do too if you’re reading this.

The August team is smart and nimble; working together to help our clients change and build innovative applications. We are committed to learning and sharing something new every day.

While we expect this to be a full time role, we’re always open to chatting about part time options.

DevOps Engineers work within our diverse team to ensure our infrastructure is top notch and our clients are receiving the best experience we can provide them. We are fixated on improving our clients’ outcomes. We expect that you’re someone who values this as well.

This role in the words of August team members

It’s not every day you get to hear about a role from the person who was in it, or who they work with. Take a look at these behind the scenes chats to learn more about this unique DevOps role and the quality team you’ll be working with.

The job in 55 words or less

• Being the custodian and delivering delightful support of our client hosting infrastructure - you'll be working with a fully spec'd out Hashistack in AWS.
• You'll be providing DevOps support for code deploys by the team and you love working with tech such as GitHub, BuildKite, and Docker.
• Monitoring and logging of all services we're working with.
• Interacting with clients and team members when they need your specialist expertise.
• Building relationships with our clients' technical teams so that we can continue our reputation for silky smooth dev work.
• Helping us delight our clients beyond their expectations.

Does this sound like you?

• Minimum 6 years' experience in a Sys Admin or DevOps Engineer role (if you have slightly less experience, we still encourage you to apply!)
• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science or Electronics Engineering experience with set up and management of open source software stacks.
• A desire to learn new technologies, to push/challenge the technical capability within our team and to grow with the role, regardless of your experience.
• While you can work autonomously, team and client connection and communication is important to you.
• Participating in a supportive culture where team conversations can revolve around belonging and feedback.
• Experience with, and an interest in, continuing to improve data and infrastructure security practices for our clients and us.

You get extra credit for

• Experience with becoming ISO certified
• Set up and training in AI models
• Supporting developers in building out containerised workloads
• Qualifications in data security

What you will get

Working at August is not just another agency job. While we take our work seriously, we really enjoy the company of the people we work with and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. It takes time to find the right people to join our team. There’s a level of trust and flexibility that is hard to describe, but here goes nothing. You’ll enjoy the freedom to create and contribute to sophisticated projects the way you want, combined with a robustness of process that ensures you have total support to focus all your energy and inspiration on compelling design and technical challenges. If you’d like more detail, we’d love you to ask us about it!

Our values play an important part in everything we do at August. They help us deliver epic work for clients around the world and they’ve seen us through some difficult times. As a team member, you’ll continue to develop not just your technical craft, but other valuable qualities such as powerful communication skills, commercial and business nous, and handy insights into totally random stuff, like a quick and easy killer dumpling recipe, or the engineering magic behind the latest SpaceX test flight (again, you might want to ask us!). When we hire someone to join the team, we’re interested and invested in all the different parts that make up you – because ultimately, that’s what makes August.

As a team member, you can also expect:

• A competitive salary package with various incentives and rewards.
• Flexible and hybrid working is part of our daily jam.
• Working within a highly motivated, talented and technology–driven team.
• A team of people who will invest in your career progression
  and development.
• Generous company policies that help you grow and balance life.
• Many other perks we will discuss when we meet you.

Apply Now

Applications for this role are open now and we are actively hiring to fill this spot in our team.

If you have questions about this role or about August, feel free to contact us and ask for Sarah.

To apply for this position, you need to:

• Mention one of our clients in your application.
• Provide your CV, outlining your skills and experience.
• Include a covering letter explaining why you are perfect for this role.
• If you have a personal website or folio site, feel free to include it in your application; we’d love to check it out.

Are you a recruiter?

We understand you work in a competitive industry and you will be tempted to contact us with potential candidates for this and other listed roles. We respectfully request that you do not contact us regarding applicants for
this role and please do not send us unsolicited applications.

About August

August is an independent award-winning digital consultancy headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. We aim to nudge the world just enough to make a change. Help us to make it happen.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at August. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are excited to be launching a production management system made specifically for agencies and professional service firms that have adopted a hybrid agile methodology. This role provides you with the opportunity to work on sophisticated and complex problems – rather than designing individual product features, you’ll understand that owning the design process from the ground up is needed. More importantly, bringing people along and making it a team effort in that process is critical to the success of our work together.

No one works on anything alone when you’re an August team member. You’ll be expected to collaborate and contribute – for someone who thrives in this type of environment, you’ll be driven to add to the fabric of our strong culture and quality work through your commitment to learning and delivering.

Before we jump into more specifics of the role, it’s important we let you know about our hybrid way of working. We maintain flexible work practices and have done so since the company started in 2005. Hybrid working for us means that our Senior Product Design role is based in our Melbourne office and will work predominantly with our Australian and New Zealand team. However, you are not expected to work in the office or remote full time. Teams self-manage their face to face time and we also ensure that the company is up to date with all COVID-safe practices including vaccination requirements, cleaning, and physical distancing requirements.

The job in 55 words or less

• Be part of the foundation team that successfully launches our product into market in 2022; it takes a village.
• Collaborate with a smart, talented team of people who are committed to learning and sharing something new every day; no one works on anything alone.
• Be a champion for the people using this product; actively listening to their feedback and gaining insights into how we can best serve them and make a product that truly improves their experience and business outcomes
• Establish ways of working within the product team in your first few months that provides context and room for growth and scalability

Does this sound like you?

• Proven experience designing software that tackles complex problems and is used by people; in other words, this isn’t your first product
• Collaboration is a skill and a way of working that enables you to collect feedback, give feedback, and convert conversations into productive design discussions.
• You are focused on human-centred design when it comes to solving product issues; product design is great, but if it’s not solving a person’s problem then it’s not helpful.
• Excited by the opportunity to contribute to a senior and experienced team in developing ways of working, processes and feedback mechanisms.
• You know the best practice tools of the trade and you use them everyday including (but not limited to) Figma, Principle, Sketch and more…
• Can work autonomously but loves being part of a team and actively contributing to it

You get extra credit for

• Experience with public speaking opportunities.
• Formal facilitation and coaching qualifications.

What you will get

Working at August is not just another agency job. While we take our work seriously, we really enjoy the company of the people we work with and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. It takes time to find the right people to join our team. There’s a level of trust and flexibility that is hard to describe, but here goes nothing. You’ll enjoy the freedom to create and contribute to sophisticated projects the way you want, combined with a robustness of process that ensures you have total support to focus all your energy and inspiration on compelling design and technical challenges. If you’d like more detail, we’d love you to ask us about it!

Our values play an important part in everything we do at August. They help us deliver epic work for clients around the world and they’ve seen us through some difficult times. As a team member, you’ll continue to develop not just your technical craft, but other valuable qualities such as powerful communication skills, commercial and business nous, and handy insights into totally random stuff, like a quick and easy killer dumpling recipe, or the engineering magic behind the latest SpaceX test flight (again, you might want to ask us!). When we hire someone to join the team, we’re interested and invested in all the different parts that make up you – because ultimately, that’s what makes August.

As a team member, you can also expect:

• A competitive salary package with various incentives and rewards.
• Flexible working is part of our daily jam.
• Working within a highly motivated, talented and technology–driven team.
• A team of people who will invest in your career progression
  and development.
• Generous company policies that help you grow and balance life.
• Many other perks we will discuss when we meet you.

Apply Now

Applications for this role are open now. To apply for this position, you need to:

• Mention one of our clients in your application.
• Provide your CV, outlining your skills and experience.
• Include a covering letter explaining why you are perfect for this role.
• If you have a personal website or folio site, feel free to include it in your application; we’d love to check it out.

Are you a recruiter?

We understand you work in a competitive industry and you will be tempted to contact us with potential candidates for this and other listed roles. We respectfully request that you do not contact us regarding applicants for
this role.

About August

August is an independent award-winning digital consultancy headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. We aim to nudge the world just enough to make a change. Help us to make it happen.

You love words and know how to use them. You like being ‘on the tools’. No matter what you’re writing, each word has a purpose, and is used to capture audiences with storytelling that speaks to a deep knowledge of your clients and their businesses. You have a meticulous eye for details and take joy in making things better.

The August team is smart and nimble; working together to build innovative projects, committed to learning and sharing something new every day. Copywriters work within our talented team alongside designers, developers, consultants and analysts to ensure that no stone is left unturned when it comes to articulating our clients’ stories and communicating with their audiences.

The job in 55 words or less

• Crafting engaging content for strategic and tactical output across digital channels.
• Collaborating within our team to deliver compelling concepts and ideas to clients.
• Editing and proofreading client copy.
• Keeping up to date with emerging, relevant technologies and trends.

Does this sound like you?

• Experience as a copywriter or writer with marketing experience (minimum 8 years).
• An insatiable appetite for writing – long form and short.
• Advanced editorial and proofreading skills.
• Ability to take content ideas from concept through to implementation.
• Experience in content strategy and execution for long term engagements.
• Digital marketing experience and a strong understanding of the digital environment.
• You're all about owning your results - especially the ones you realised you needed to learn something from.

You get extra credit for

• Experience with Figma and other design related tools.
• Experience with online content tools.
• A sound knowledge of SEO techniques and principles.

What you will get

Working at August is not just another agency job. While we take our work seriously, we really enjoy the company of the people we work with and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. It takes time to find the right people to join our team. There’s a level of trust and flexibility that is hard to describe, but here goes nothing. You’ll enjoy the freedom to create and contribute to sophisticated projects the way you want, combined with a robustness of process that ensures you have total support to focus all your energy and inspiration on compelling design and technical challenges. If you’d like more detail, we’d love you to ask us about it!

Our values play an important part in everything we do at August. They help us deliver epic work for clients around the world and they’ve seen us through some difficult times. As a team member, you’ll continue to develop not just your technical craft, but other valuable qualities such as powerful communication skills, commercial and business nous, and handy insights into totally random stuff, like a quick and easy killer dumpling recipe, or the engineering magic behind the latest SpaceX test flight (again, you might want to ask us!). When we hire someone to join the team, we’re interested and invested in all the different parts that make up you – because ultimately, that’s what makes August.

As a team member, you can also expect:

• A competitive salary package with various incentives and rewards.
• Flexible working is part of our daily jam.
• Working within a highly motivated, talented and technology–driven team.
• A team of people who will invest in your career progression
  and development.
• Generous company policies that help you grow and balance life.
• Many other perks we will discuss when we meet you.

Apply Now

Applications for this role are open now. To apply for this position, you need to:

• Mention one of our clients in your application.
• Provide your CV, outlining your skills and experience.
• Include a covering letter explaining why you are perfect for this role.
• Write a blog? Please provide a link in your application; we’d love to check it out.

Are you a recruiter?

We understand you work in a competitive industry and you will be tempted to contact us with potential candidates for this and other listed roles. We respectfully request that you do not contact us regarding applicants for this role and do not send us unsolicited applications.

About August

August is an award-winning independent digital consultancy headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. We also have offices in the United Kingdom and Canada. We aim to nudge the world just enough to make a change. Help us to make it happen.

We are looking for rounded developers with experience working on WordPress websites within a LAMP stack environment. You have a solid understanding of the programming principles involved with such duties. We’re not looking for someone who would describe themself as a full stack developer. Beyond that, you love being presented with sophisticated problems, taking ownership of the approach required to solve those problems, and working as part of a smart, well-trained, and multi-disciplinary team to design and develop award-winning, meaningful work.

The August team is smart and nimble; working together to build innovative applications, committed to learning and sharing something new every day, and known to own more than a few code-related t-shirts. PHP Developers work within our talented team to ensure the work we produce today is better than what we put out yesterday. This is a great opportunity for bright, pragmatic, and highly experienced PHP Developers to grow through collaboration with talented senior teams, while contributing to mentoring others.

We are fixated on improving our clients’ outcomes and the experience for their audiences. We expect you to join us in our obsession.

The job in 55 words or less

• Work with WordPress themes and plugins on a daily basis.
• Work with the team to deliver awesome functionality that our client love on their Wordpress sites.
• Provide technical support, solutions and recommendations.
• Work closely with production and design team members to ensure projects follow technical and production processes.

Does this sound like you?

• At least 8 years' experience as a PHP Developer.
• You eat Wordpress Themes and Plugins like your favourite burrito.
• You're an awesome PHP developer with a passion and curiosity for Wordpress.
• Not only do you love building Wordpress sites, but you know how to extend them the Wordpress way.
• You love solving complex problems for clients.
• Can work autonomously but loves being part of a team and actively contributing.
• Good problem-solving skills and the ability to think clearly and logically.
• Willingness to take ownership of projects and mentor junior developers
• Experience mentoring other developers, as well as being mentored.

You get extra credit for

• Experience working on Drupal sites or building bespoke Symfony apps.
• Knowledge of Amazon web services or similar cloud infrastructure.
• Making a mean coffee.
• A love of Bubble Soccer.

What you can expect if you become a team member.

Working at August is not just another agency job. While we take our work seriously, we really enjoy the company of the people we work with and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. It takes time to find the right people to join our team. There’s a level of trust and flexibility that is hard to describe, but here goes nothing. You’ll enjoy the freedom to create and contribute to sophisticated projects the way you want, combined with a robustness of process that ensures you have total support to focus all your energy and inspiration on compelling technical challenges. If you’d like more detail, we’d love you to ask us about it!

Our values play an important part in everything we do at August. They help us deliver epic work for clients around the world and they’ve seen us through some difficult times. As a team member, you’ll continue to develop not just your technical craft, but other valuable qualities such as powerful communication skills, commercial and business nous, and handy insights into totally random stuff, like a quick and easy killer dumpling recipe, or the engineering magic behind the latest SpaceX test flight (again, you might want to ask us!). When we hire someone to join the team, we’re interested and invested in all the different parts that make up you – because ultimately, that’s what makes August.

As a team member, you can also expect:

• A competitive salary package with various incentives and rewards.
• Flexible working is part of our daily jam.
• Working within a highly motivated, talented and technology–driven team.
• A team of people who will invest in your career progression
  and development.
• Generous company policies that help you grow and balance life.
• Many other perks we will discuss when we meet you.

Apply Now

Applications for this role are open now. To apply for this position, you need to:

• Mention one of our clients in your application.
• Provide your CV, outlining your skills and experience.
• Include a covering letter explaining why you are perfect for this role.
• Please provide a URL or GitHub account in your application; we’d love to check it out.

Are you a recruiter?

We understand you work in a competitive industry and you will be tempted to contact us with potential candidates for this and other listed roles. We respectfully request that you do not contact us regarding applicants for
this role.

About August

August is an award-winning independent digital firm. We aim to nudge the world just enough to make a change. Help us to make it happen.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at August. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are currently offering an internship through Swinburne University’s Professional Placements program. This is a 12-month internship. If you’re currently undertaking your degree at Swinburne, it might be worth checking out this program.

If you’re not attending Swinburne, then you’ll need to work hard to get our attention. That’s not to say don’t try, in fact, be brave and try hard. But make it count. Look at the tips we’ve listed for work experience opportunities that may help you stand out.

The job in 55 words or less

• Work across different parts of August to understand how the business functions.
• Assist the team with various client and production related activity.
• Work with and learn our online systems to manage client engagements and your day to day work.
• Use your initiative and curious nature to help making things better.
• Collaborate as part of a multidisciplinary team in solving problems.
• You'll be treated like an Augie from day one - you decide what you make of it.

Does this sound like you?

• Curious and keen to be challenged.
• Loves a good deadline.
• Demonstrates initiative and problem-solving skills.
• You have experience working with an open source CMS (Wordpress/Drupal/Craft).
• You've worked with, or you're eager to learn, various command line tools.
• An insatiable appetite for all things digital.
• Can work independently as well as collaboratively.
• Open to receiving feedback and can demonstrate acting on prior feedback.

You get extra credit for

• Going above and beyond in your application - show us your personality.
• Makes a mean coffee...or an indulgent hot chocolate.

What you will get

A creative, dynamic and fun work environment – while we take our work seriously, we really enjoy the company of the people we work with and we don’t take ourselves too seriously. You may notice spontaneous basketball playoffs, table-tennis matches, heaps of laughter around the office and a few fun surprises that we’ll tell you about on your first day.

You will also get:

• Work within a highly motivated, talented and technology–driven team.
• A team of people who will invest in your career progression
  and development.
• Many other perks we will discuss when we meet you.

Apply Now

Applications for this role are open now. To apply for this position, you need to:

• Provide your CV, outlining your skills and experience.
• Include a covering letter explaining why you are perfect for this role and don’t forget to mention a client of ours.
• Attach a copy of your academic transcript to your application.
• If you write a blog, have your own website, or other online platform you’d like us to check out, please include the URL in your application. We’d love to take a look.

Are you a recruiter?

We understand you work in a competitive industry and you will be tempted to contact us with potential candidates for this and other listed roles. We respectfully request that you do not contact us regarding applicants for this role.

About August

August is an award-winning independent digital consultancy based in Richmond. We aim to nudge the world just enough to make a change. Help us to make it happen.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at August. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We are big advocates of learning and pushing yourself to be better. Work experience is valuable in the formative years of your career or as you’re nearing the end of high school. It gives you the opportunity – however brief – to be immersed in a company you admire, learn how the company operates, gain an insight into working life and meet people that could help influence your career.

Work experience placements at August are available in June each year.

We take work experience seriously. You’ll be assigned tasks that have a direct impact on the business. Whether it’s assisting with client projects, internal work or being part of team discussions – you’ll be doing much more than just filing or getting coffee.

With that in mind, opportunities here are rare. We don’t advertise, but we do welcome applications from people who push the boundaries with their application.

We want you to stand out. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never done work experience before. Show us why you’re different and why we simply shouldn’t say “no” to you.

Things to consider when approaching us about work experience:

• If you submit online, follow up with a phone call.
• If at first you don’t succeed, it’s okay to try again at a later date.
• Be brave and make contact yourself – don’t ask someone else to call on your behalf.
• Research interview etiquette and tips – it could just help you stand out.
• Show us that you’ve learnt about August as a company and what we stand for.
• Be creative in your approach to us.