Senior DevOps Engineer
HybridSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job Summary
Drive cost efficiency across a multi-account AWS environment using dashboards, budgets, and storage lifecycle policies. Eliminate platform risk by retiring end-of-life runtimes, simplifying infrastructure, and enforcing guardrails with consistent tagging. Extend SLO coverage across production services as Terraform code, manage error budgets, and integrate alerting into incident workflows. Establish disaster-recovery drills, build an internal developer platform with self-service deployments, and move secrets to runtime injection via AWS Secrets Manager. Apply agentic AI to incident root-cause analysis and IaC authoring with human-in-the-loop guardrails. Report directly to the Head of DevOps in a full-time hybrid role out of Sydney CBD.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years in DevOps/ Platform/ SRE/ Cloud Engineering, with senior ownership of production systems
- Deep AWS expertise - ECS/ Fargate, RDS/Aurora (MySQL & PostgreSQL), Lambda, IAM, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, API Gateway - and comfort operating a multi-account AWS Organisation
- Terraform at production scale: modules, workspaces, multi-environment, and code-review discipline
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions - reusable workflows, composite actions, and OIDC-based cloud authentication
- Containers & Docker - building, securing, and operating containerised workloads
- Observability - hands-on with Datadog (or Prometheus/Grafana/New Relic equivalents): APM, SLOs, monitors-as-code, and log/metric/trace pipelines
- Cloud cost management (FinOps) - right-sizing, Savings Plans/RIs, and cost attribution through tagging
- Reliability practice - SLOs, error budgets, on-call, blameless RCA, and MTTR/MTTD measurement
- Strong scripting (Python and/or Bash) and the ability to work across a polyglot codebase (PHP, TypeScript, Python)
- Security-conscious by default: least-privilege IAM, secrets management, and WAF/GuardDuty/Security Hub-style controls
- AI-augmented engineering - fluent with agentic coding harnesses (e.g. Claude Code) and MCP, building reusable skills and prompts to automate operational toil. You treat AI as a core part of your workflow, not an afterthought.
Desired Qualifications
- hybrid working conditions out of our Sydney CBD Office
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