Infrastructure Engineer, APAC

DTEX; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company hardware

Virtual events & learning

Internet & phone reimbursement

Opportunities to grow

Job summary

DTEX seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer with a strong software engineering background to modernize infrastructure and operations. You will design automation to provision, deploy, and configure environments, applying IaC and software principles to build resilient systems.

You will work with Python, Terraform, Ansible/Saltstack, and CI/CD to automate and optimize deployment, monitoring, and incident response across on‑prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience managing production environments in AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong proficiency in Python with ability to write clean, testable code for infrastructure problems.
• Experience with Terraform including state management and modular design in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals, Bash scripting, and command-line operations.
• Proficiency with Ansible and/or Saltstack for configuration management.
• Expert Git workflows and code review practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, write, and maintain software, primarily in Python, to automate provisioning, deployment, and configuration management of infrastructure.
• Contribute to Terraform adoption, state management, modularization, and version control best practices.
• Utilize Ansible and/or Saltstack to ensure consistency and repeatability across environments.
• Develop robust CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Implement and mature monitoring, logging, and alerting to improve reliability.
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation and drive blameless postmortems and improvements.

Skills

Python

Terraform

Ansible & Saltstack

AWS / GCP

Linux

Bash

Git

Education

MS/BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

DTEX is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with a strong software engineering background to help drive modernization of our infrastructure and operations. This is a high-impact role where you will design and implement automation solutions to manage customer environments and enable the business to scale beyond what manual operations allow. You will be instrumental in our efforts to transition from legacy operations to modern, automated Infrastructure as Code best practices, applying software engineering principles to solve complex operational problems and build resilient systems.

What You Will Do:

• Design, write, and maintain software, primarily in Python, to automate the provisioning, deployment, and configuration management of our infrastructure
• Contribute to the adoption and maturation of Terraform, establishing and maintaining best practices for state management, modularization, and version control.
• Utilize Ansible and/or Saltstack to ensure consistency, repeatability, and standardization across all environments.
• Develop robust CI/CD pipelines for both infrastructure and application deployments, replacing manual processes.
• Implement and mature monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to proactively improve system reliability.
• Participate in a “follow the sun” on‑call rotation, focusing on sustainable incident response, blameless postmortems, and driving continuous improvement.
• Champion SRE principles, automation, and coding best practices within the team and across the organization.

We are looking for you if you have:

Essential Technical Skills:

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience managing production environments in AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong proficiency in Python. Demonstrated ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code to solve infrastructure problems.
• Experience with Terraform, including best practices for state management and modular design in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and high competency in Bash scripting and command-line operations.
• Proficiency with Ansible and/or Saltstack as configuration management tools.
• Expert level understanding of Git and collaborative workflows, such as branching strategies and code review best practices.

Highly Desirable Skills:

• Proven track record of transitioning legacy/manual operations environments to automated, IaC-Driven approaches.
• Experience with containerization in the context of Docker or Kubernetes, and how container orchestration is used in modern systems.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana and other tools.
• Experience operating and querying Opensearch/Elasticsearch.

...and these other things:

• A strong desire to solve complex problems, the resilience to work through significant technical debt, and enthusiasm for driving cultural and technical change.
• A desire to work in enterprise and government focused computing environments with robust security and reliability requirements.
• MS/BS in Computer Science/Computer Engineering or related field of study (or equivalent experience)

We take good care of our people. Our benefits include:

• Company computer hardware of your choice
• Virtual events, happy hours, trivia, and fun
• Monthly Internet & Phone Reimbursement
• Opportunities to learn and grow

About DTEX

DTEX is the leader in risk-adaptive security, unifying human, data, and AI risk through a behavioral intelligence platform. Built for enterprise scale, DTEX detects threats early and prevents breaches before they impact the business.

By analyzing how people, data, and AI systems interact, DTEX surfaces early indicators of risk that other tools miss and provides the context needed to act with precision. The platform brings together insider risk management, risk-adaptive data protection, user and entity behavior analytics, user activity monitoring, and AI risk management into a single, cohesive solution.

Organizations and governments worldwide rely on DTEX to protect sensitive data, enable secure innovation, and safeguard trust. With privacy-by-design telemetry and adaptive controls, security teams can reduce risk without disrupting productivity.

Joining DTEX means working on some of the most complex and high-impact security challenges facing enterprises today.

DTEX is proud to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.