Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Join a leading Australian FinTech which operates critical real-time payments infrastructure underpinning the country's card payments, bill payments, and instant money transfers. This permanent role offers a $130,000 base salary plus superannuation and demands excellence in reliability engineering to maintain seamless operations that are essential to the nation.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and enhance cloud and platform infrastructure focusing on availability, resilience, security, and optimal performance.
• Respond as the first line of defense during platform incidents, tackling complex reliability and capacity challenges, aiming to reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to recover (MTTR).
• Engineer and optimize AWS and Kubernetes environments, including EKS, EC2, EFS, VPC, and IAM components.
• Develop and refine CI/CD pipelines and automate recurring operational tasks to minimize manual interventions.
• Improve observability systems to proactively identify issues before affecting customers.
• Implement robust resilience strategies, including disaster recovery and controlled change and configuration management.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Practical experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, cloud engineer, or platform engineer in complex, high-availability systems.
• Deep expertise in AWS, particularly with EKS, EC2, EFS, VPC, IAM, and strong underlying cloud networking knowledge.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster management, scaling, upgrades, and performance tuning.
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Ansible, coupled with scripting skills in Python, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, with a solid understanding of observability best practices.
• Candidates must be located in Sydney and able to work onsite a few days each week.

Preferred Experience

• Background in cloud security, incident response, and disaster recovery within regulated or mission-critical environments.
• Industry experience in payments, banking, or financial services.
• Demonstrated success in reducing noisy, alert-heavy platforms to more manageable and quiet operations.

Additional Information

• The role is based onsite in Sydney, requiring presence in the office several days per week.
• Australian permanent residents or citizens only are eligible to apply.