Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AUS)

Job summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is tasked with ensuring the reliability and operational excellence of a customer-facing platform and data services across Azure, colocation, and edge Kubernetes environments. This role involves building observability layers, automating recovery processes, and optimizing cluster resources while supporting incident response efforts and enhancing operational maturity across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related role.
• Hands-on experience operating native Kubernetes.
• Experience optimizing Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience increasing operational visibility.
• Experience designing workloads for safe horizontal scaling.
• Experience with multi-cluster high-availability architectures.
• Experience supporting customer-facing production systems.
• Experience diagnosing production incidents.
• Experience operating Kubernetes in non-managed environments.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operational tooling and ecosystem technologies.
• Understanding of infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with CI/CD and production deployment pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience with distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across various layers.
• Experience in structured production on-call rotation.
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Entra.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own production reliability for customer-facing platform and data services across Azure, colocation, and edge Kubernetes environments.
• Support the whole company as part of a shared SRE function.
• Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, and operational metrics.
• Build and own the observability layer for the fleet.
• Design and implement automated recovery and self-healing for production systems.
• Optimize cluster resources and costs.
• Coordinate production incident response efforts.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues.
• Drive multi-replica and multi-cluster high availability.
• Contribute to multi-cluster high-availability strategy.
• Operate and improve self-managed Kubernetes platform.
• Ensure Kubernetes platform lifecycle activities preserve service availability.
• Enhance reliability and operational maturity of production services.
• Design and validate Kubernetes workloads for resiliency and efficiency.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve production readiness.
• Maintain and improve deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Evolve observability platform.
• Conduct performance engineering and capacity-planning efforts.
• Facilitate blameless postmortem reviews.
• Enhance disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.

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Relocation