DevOps Reliability Engineer
$59,400–$72,600 year
Remote · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Job Summary
DevOps Reliability Engineer to optimize an Azure-based SaaS platform for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. The role blends DevOps, production operations, and engineering execution, requiring telemetry-driven analysis, code-reading for troubleshooting, and collaboration with engineering to implement practical improvements. Responsibilities include monitoring health and performance, tuning Azure services, creating runbooks and runbooks-guides, supporting SQL queries and backups/restores for troubleshooting, analyzing partner integrations and usage patterns for performance and cloud spend, conducting root cause analysis on complex production issues, and driving continuous improvement across deployment processes and system readiness. The candidate should have strong Azure skills, the ability to read and troubleshoot code, and a continuous improvement mindset.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related degree or relevant experience
- 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or similar roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, especially: Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure App Services, and Azure Containers (AKS, Container Apps, or similar)
- Ability to read and interpret telemetry, logs, metrics, and resource usage data and explain what’s wrong and how to fix it
- Experience working with production systems that require high availability and reliability
- Comfort owning work end-to-end, from identifying issues to executing improvements
- Experience adjusting pipelines, hosting configurations, and deployment processes
- Solid understanding of cloud cost drivers and usage optimization
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively across engineering and support team
- Ability to read and interpret application code to support troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and identification of performance improvement opportunities
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