APAC Platform & SRE Manager (Azure)

Clio; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 168,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Hybrid work environment

Flexible time off

Clioversary recognition program

Job summary

Clio, a global leader in legal AI tech, seeks a Manager, Systems Engineering to build and lead the APAC Platform Team in Sydney. You’ll focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Azure infrastructure, hiring and growing the team as the function starts in-region.

You’ll mentor engineers, establish SLOs/SLIs, and drive automation, observability, and security across CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with Architecture, Development and Security to align infra with Clio’s roadmap.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading platform, SRE, or systems engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of Azure architecture, services and IaC (Terraform preferred).
• Experience defining and tracking SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.
• Growth mindset for process improvement and new technologies, especially AI.
• Knowledge of incident management and post-mortem culture in SRE environments.
• Hands-on with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerization and distributed systems.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
• Solid software development skills (Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash).
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, hire, and onboard engineers who will make up your APAC team.
• Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
• Ensure systems are highly reliable, scalable, and secure using cloud/SRE best practices.
• Partner with Development, Security, and Product Engineering to align infra initiatives with the roadmap.
• Oversee incident response, post-mortems, and continual improvements to reduce recurrence.
• Drive automation to reduce manual toil across Azure environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for production and pre-production.
• Support CI/CD and developer productivity to improve local development and deployment.
• Promote blameless post-mortems, knowledge sharing, and proactive risk management.

Skills

Azure expertise

Platform leadership

SRE principles

SLO/SLI management

CI/CD orchestration

Kubernetes & containers

Observability tooling

Python/Go/Ruby/Bash

Tools

Terraform

Buildkite

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

Job description

Clio, a global leader in legal AI tech, seeks a Manager, Systems Engineering to build and lead the APAC Platform Team in Sydney. You’ll focus on reliability, scalability, and efficiency of Azure infrastructure, hiring and growing the team as the function starts in-region.

You’ll mentor engineers, establish SLOs/SLIs, and drive automation, observability, and security across CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with Architecture, Development and Security to align infra with Clio’s roadmap.