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Site Reliability Engineer

Cisco · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Sydney, NSW, AustraliaOnsite
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

The Site Reliability Engineer develops software and operational tools that help product teams run secure, reliable production services at scale. The role builds automation for dependable releases, including automated rollbacks and zero-downtime deployments, and improves cloud infrastructure through monitoring, incident response, high-availability testing, disaster recovery, and multi-region reliability work. The environment includes Python, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related experience, master's degree and 3 years, or PhD and 0 years.
  • At least 4 years of Python development experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience with public cloud platforms and SaaS solutions; AWS preferred.
  • At least 2 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a related IT field.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, especially Terraform.
  • Experience with container orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Ability to use AI coding agents and verify their outputs for correctness and security.
  • Experience operating Kubernetes with kubectl, Helm, Kustomize, and Argo CD.
  • Experience designing secure cloud solutions using least privilege, encryption, and defence in depth.
  • Experience deploying cloud services, monitoring, alerting, and production incident response.
  • Familiarity with disaster recovery, security controls, or multi-region infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Develop software and tools that help product teams operate production services.
  • Build automation to reduce operational toil and improve stability and scalability.
  • Enable fast, reliable releases with automated rollbacks and zero-downtime deployments.
  • Improve service reliability across infrastructure and regions.
  • Test high-availability and disaster-recovery measures and monitor resource scalability.
  • Design and implement tools, frameworks, and automation for operational challenges.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and troubleshoot production and security issues.
  • Conduct incident reviews and implement reliability improvements.
  • Support less experienced colleagues as a technical resource.

Skills

Argo CDAWSDockerHelmKubernetesKustomizePythonTerraform

Degrees

Bachelor's degreeMaster's degreePhD

Languages

Python

Work schedule

Rotating on-call schedule

Industry

Security services

Relocation

No