Jobs / WISR
Senior Cloud Engineer
WISR · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney, NSW, AustraliaExp: 5+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
$500 annual wellbeing allowance; extra annual leave day; discounted gym memberships and wellbeing products; paid parental leave; unlimited Udemy access; Employee Assistance Program with up to six coaching sessions per year
Location
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Lead the design and operation of secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure and platform engineering for services handling sensitive financial data. Set technical direction across Azure, AWS, and GCP; build infrastructure-as-code with Pulumi and an internal developer platform; and own reliability practices including SLOs, CI/CD, observability, disaster recovery, and incident response.
Benefits
Flexible and hybrid working500 annual wellbeing allowanceExtra annual leave dayDiscounted gym memberships and wellbeing productsPaid parental leaveUnlimited Udemy accessSocial events and team offsitesEmployee Assistance Program with up to six coaching sessions per year
Qualifications
- At least five years of hands-on cloud engineering experience across two or more of AWS, GCP, and Azure.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD templates and deployment practices using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
- Strong Azure expertise; Azure Expert Certification is preferred.
- Fintech or financial services experience is preferred.
- Experience with Docker, container registries, Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or AKS), and Helm.
- Site reliability engineering expertise, including SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering, on-call practices, and blameless postmortems.
- Experience with distributed tracing, log aggregation, metrics, and alerting tools such as Datadog, Grafana, or Prometheus.
- Strong networking fundamentals, including VPNs, private endpoints, DNS, CDNs, and load balancing.
- Advanced infrastructure-as-code expertise with Pulumi and GitOps at scale.
- Strong security engineering foundations, including zero-trust networking, IAM, secrets management, SIEM, and vulnerability scanning.
- Knowledge across development and operations, including coding, infrastructure management, and engineering.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve multi-cloud infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and GCP.
- Improve platform reliability, scalability, automation, and technology stack efficiency.
- Use Pulumi to manage Azure resources and application deployments.
- Build and maintain an internal developer platform.
- Own SLOs and standards for CI/CD, environments, containerization, and observability.
- Automate operational tasks and identify opportunities to improve delivery and team efficiency.
- Monitor systems, address issues, and design automated troubleshooting strategies.
- Influence architecture through RFCs and design reviews, and mentor engineers.
- Partner with technology leadership on platform roadmap and strategy.
- Develop disaster recovery strategy with the cybersecurity team and conduct periodic drills.
- Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, and reduce operational toil.
- Integrate security throughout software delivery and advance zero-trust architecture.
- Manage platform vendors and subscriptions.
Skills
AKSAWSAzureAzure DevOpsDatadogDockerEKSGCPGitHubGitHub ActionsGKEGrafanaHelmIAMKubernetesPrometheusPulumiCloudFrontRoute 53Secrets ManagerWireGuard
Certifications
Azure Expert Certification preferred
Work schedule
Three days per week in the office
Industry
FintechFinancial services
Relocation
No