Jobs / Corto Pty Ltd
Senior DevOps Engineer
Corto Pty Ltd · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney, NSW, AustraliaExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Additional time off, gym membership, and other perks; access to a home-purchase support program.
Location
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Senior DevOps Engineer owns the reliability, performance, capacity, and security of AWS data platforms supporting development and Quality Engineering teams across multiple regions. The role manages RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Valkey, and OpenSearch, while building infrastructure with CloudFormation or Terraform, improving CI/CD automation, leading incident investigations, and mentoring engineers.
Benefits
Additional time offGym membershipCareer and learning opportunitiesAccess to sailing and yacht eventsHome-purchase support program
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience operating production AWS infrastructure, including networking, IAM, security, and observability.
- Strong PostgreSQL administration knowledge, preferably with RDS and Aurora, including query tuning, indexing, locking, connection management, and recovery.
- Production experience with DynamoDB, Valkey or Redis-compatible caches, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning, capacity management, and failover.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, C#, JavaScript, or another scripting or programming language.
- Experience with CloudFormation or Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and code review.
- Typically 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, Platform, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related field.
- Demonstrated ownership of production databases and cloud infrastructure.
- Track record of improving processes through automation and resolving complex technical issues with lasting fixes.
- Experience guiding engineers and collaborating across development and operations teams.
- Relevant experience in database administration, software engineering, support engineering, or quality engineering is valued.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, and capacity of RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Valkey, and OpenSearch.
- Lead database upgrades and migrations and maintain tested backup and recovery procedures.
- Work with developers to improve queries and data access patterns.
- Build and maintain secure, scalable, cost-aware AWS infrastructure across environments and regions using Infrastructure as Code.
- Standardize infrastructure patterns and address reliability risks.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and create reusable self-service tools for deployments and operational tasks.
- Maintain monitoring, alerts, and operational runbooks; lead incident investigations and implement lasting fixes.
- Apply least-privilege access, encryption, and secrets management, and align configurations and auditing with AWS best practices.
- Participate in the weekly out-of-hours on-call rotation.
- Partner with development and Quality Engineering teams, communicate technical risks and trade-offs, and mentor engineers.
Skills
AWSBashCloudFormationC#DynamoDBElasticsearchGitIAMJavaScriptMakeOpenSearchPostgreSQLPythonRedisTerraform
Certifications
Relevant AWS certifications desirable
Work schedule
Weekly out-of-hours on-call rotation
Industry
Legal technology
Relocation
No