Azure SRE & DevOps Engineer — Reliability at Scale

9X5 Consulting; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

9X5 Consulting seeks experienced Site Reliability Engineers / Senior DevOps Engineers to join clients in Melbourne. You will drive reliability, scalability and operational performance of critical platforms with strong Azure, automation, observability and modern infrastructure practices.

Applicants should demonstrate SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, and incident post-mortems, with hands-on Azure across compute, AKS, storage and databases. Hybrid Melbourne CBD arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in SRE/DevOps engineering.
• Hands-on Azure across compute, networking, App Service/AKS.
• Experience with SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• IaC using Terraform or Bicep.
• CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Automation using PowerShell, Python, or Go.
• Networking basics: DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, NSGs.
• Linux/Windows Server administration.
• Incident management and post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, availability, performance and scalability of production services.
• Define, implement and manage SLIs, SLOs and error budgets.
• Design and support solutions across Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, App Services, AKS, storage, databases).
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
• Automate operational and infrastructure processes using PowerShell, Python and/or Go.
• Monitor production environments, troubleshoot issues and respond to incidents.
• Lead root-cause analysis and blameless post-mortems.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security teams to embed reliability practices.

Skills

Azure experience

SRE DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD

PowerShell

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Monitoring Observability

Networking

Tools

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

9X5 Consulting seeks experienced Site Reliability Engineers / Senior DevOps Engineers to join clients in Melbourne. You will drive reliability, scalability and operational performance of critical platforms with strong Azure, automation, observability and modern infrastructure practices.

Applicants should demonstrate SRE principles, SLIs/SLOs, and incident post-mortems, with hands-on Azure across compute, AKS, storage and databases. Hybrid Melbourne CBD arrangement offered.