Senior Platform – Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Australia.

📋 Description

• Oversee AWS production environments located in Australia and the United States utilizing Terraform.

• Enhance monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability systems to detect and resolve issues proactively.

• Maintain and optimize CI/CD pipelines, improving deployment processes with automated health checks and rollbacks.

• Ensure the reliability, security, and performance optimization of PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS databases.

• Manage database backup procedures, restoration, query optimization, and scaling tasks.

• Develop, document, and routinely test disaster recovery plans.

• Monitor infrastructure capacity and prepare systems to meet growing customer demands.

• Collaborate with software development teams to enhance application reliability and performance.

• Oversee infrastructure maintenance, server updates, security patches, and vulnerability management.

• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions.

• Enhance infrastructure automation and operational processes while ensuring ongoing development is unaffected.

• Assume responsibility for an expanding cloud-based SaaS environment.

• Maintain a secure, stable, and scalable AWS environment, supporting product development and organizational growth.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure.

• At least 3 years of practical experience managing AWS production environments for SaaS applications.

• Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Hands-on expertise in CI/CD pipelines, automated deployment processes, and rollback methods.

• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability tools.

• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS, including performance tuning, backups, restorations, and scalability.

• Experience in developing and testing disaster recovery strategies, including Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO).

• Solid understanding of AWS security, networking, access management, and infrastructure management.

• Experience in capacity planning, performance optimization, and resolving production incidents.

• Ability to independently manage production infrastructure and take complete technical ownership.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Knowledge of compliance standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.

• Experience collaborating with managed-service providers or external support teams.

• Background in supporting enterprise SaaS applications, specifically in industrial or supply chain settings.

• Prior experience as the lead or sole Platform/SRE Engineer.

• Experience managing cloud infrastructure across various regions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.

• Full-time employment.