AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

CareCone Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CareCone Group in Sydney seeks an experienced AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build, automate, operate, and continuously improve cloud platforms and mission-critical applications. The role emphasizes AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, incident management, resiliency and operational excellence within a regulated enterprise environment.

You will drive automation, reliability, performance, scalability and availability of cloud-native platforms,

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud engineering and infrastructure automation.
• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines and platform reliability.
• Strong incident management and post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Support cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible).
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, database refreshes, and operational processes.
• Manage secrets, certificates, access controls, and cloud security controls.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and platform engineering patterns.
• Define and implement reliability engineering practices, operational standards, and platform blueprints.
• Establish and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and fault tolerance.

Skills

Production support

Incident management

Capacity planning

Security best practices

Automation

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

CloudWatch

Grafana

ELK/OpenTelemetry

Job description

AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Title : AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location :Sydney

Mode: Permanent

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build, automate, operate, and continuously improve cloud platforms and mission-critical applications. The role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, platform reliability, observability, incident management, resiliency, and operational excellence within a highly regulated enterprise environment.

The successful candidate will drive automation, reliability, performance, scalability, and availability of cloud-native platforms while partnering with engineering teams to improve release quality, operational stability, and customer experience.

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Support cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible).
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, database refreshes, and operational processes.
• Manage secrets, certificates, access controls, and cloud security controls.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and platform engineering patterns.

Job Title : AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location :Sydney

Mode: Permanent

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build, automate, operate, and continuously improve cloud platforms and mission-critical applications. The role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, platform reliability, observability, incident management, resiliency, and operational excellence within a highly regulated enterprise environment.

The successful candidate will drive automation, reliability, performance, scalability, and availability of cloud-native platforms while partnering with engineering teams to improve release quality, operational stability, and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Support cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible).
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, database refreshes, and operational processes.
• Manage secrets, certificates, access controls, and cloud security controls.
• Develop reusable infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and platform engineering patterns.

Site Reliability Engineering

• Define and implement reliability engineering practices, operational standards, and platform blueprints.
• Establish and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and fault tolerance for mission-critical applications.
• Drive proactive reliability improvements through automation and elimination of operational toil.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization activities.
• Support disaster recovery planning, backup validation, resilience testing, and business continuity initiatives.
• Participate in production readiness reviews and ensure operational requirements are embedded into solution designs.

Observability & Monitoring

• Design and implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks.
• Build and maintain dashboards, health checks, metrics, and operational reporting.
• Enhance end-to-end system visibility using CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
• Drive alert tuning and noise reduction to improve operational effectiveness.
• Establish monitoring standards across applications, infrastructure, databases, and integration components.

Incident & Operational Management

• Lead incident triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Support production systems and provide timely resolution of infrastructure and application issues.
• Drive reduction of Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).
• Develop operational runbooks, knowledge articles, and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with engineering and support teams to implement preventative actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Participate in on-call and major incident management activities where required.

DevOps & Engineering Enablement

• Promote DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability and automation maturity.
• Integrate security, observability, and operational controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support release management, change governance, and deployment strategies.
• Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and self-service platform capabilities.

Mandatory Skills

AWS Cloud

• AWS EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3, CloudWatch
• RDS/Aurora
• Route53
• Secrets Manager
• AWS Networking and Security Services

DevOps & Automation

• GitLab CI/CD
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Bash and Python scripting
• Linux/Unix Administration
• Infrastructure Automation

Site Reliability Engineering

• Production Support and Incident Management
• SLI / SLO / SLA implementation and management
• Reliability Engineering practices
• High Availability and Fault-Tolerant Architecture Design
• Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
• Root Cause Analysis and Problem Management

Observability

• Monitoring, Logging and Alerting
• CloudWatch
• Grafana
• Splunk / ELK
• OpenTelemetry
• Operational Metrics and Dashboarding

Platform & Containers

• Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Containerisation (Docker)
• Networking and Infrastructure Troubleshooting

Security

• Secrets Management Solutions (Vault preferred)
• IAM and Access Controls
• Cloud Security Best Practices

Preferred Skills

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer Certification
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Experience with Aurora PostgreSQL and Oracle migration programs
• Chaos Engineering and Resilience Testing
• Experience implementing SRE operating models
• Service Mesh technologies
• Financial Services, Banking, Capital Markets, or other regulated industries
• ITIL processes including Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud-native microservices platforms