Jobs / Upsun
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Upsun · Perth, WA, Australia
Perth, WA, AustraliaExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Company stock options; flexible paid time off; professional development, office equipment, and wellness budgets; annual team gatherings; internet reimbursement; inclusive parental leave; remote work travel program
Location
Perth, WA, Australia
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Unable to provide visa sponsorship; applicants must be legally authorized to work in the eligible hiring locations.
Job summary
Lead the evolution of a cloud application platform toward proactive, automation-driven site reliability engineering, improving reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency across multi-cloud environments. Establish observability and SLI/SLO practices, automate infrastructure, optimize CI/CD delivery, and guide incident response while partnering with product and engineering teams. The work uses Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Terraform, Ansible, and AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Benefits
Flexible paid time offCompany stock optionsProfessional development budgetOffice equipment budgetWellness budgetAnnual team gatheringsInternet reimbursementInclusive parental leaveRemote work travel program
Qualifications
- At least five years of experience in site reliability engineering, cloud operations, or DevOps.
- Proficiency in Go or Python for building automation tools, custom controllers, or SRE platform components.
- Advanced knowledge of Linux internals, kernel parameters, networking, performance profiling, and troubleshooting.
- Expertise with AWS, GCP, Azure, or OpenStack and cloud SDKs.
- Experience with declarative infrastructure tools such as Terraform for distributed systems.
- Ability to anticipate operational risks, make architectural trade-offs, and lead infrastructure initiatives independently.
- Strong cross-functional communication and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and logging practices using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack.
- Establish actionable SLIs and SLOs aligned with business metrics.
- Automate infrastructure and workflows with Terraform and Ansible across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, secure, zero-downtime releases.
- Lead incident triage and blameless post-mortems, and implement preventative measures.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to incorporate SRE practices into roadmaps.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and evaluate technologies such as eBPF and container orchestration.
Skills
AnsibleAWSAzureBashDockerGCPGoGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMakeOpenStackPrometheusPythonTerraformElasticsearchGitHub ActionsGitLab CIKibanaLogstash
Languages
GoPython
Work schedule
On-call one week every four to five weeks, 02:00–10:00 UTC, including a weekendFour-week rotation balancing engineering and operations
Industry
Cloud application platformsSoftware
Relocation
No