Kubernetes SRE: Platform Reliability & Observability

NEP Group; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary continuance insurance

NEP Days – additional 5 days of leave

NEP Travel benefits & discounts incl.Q

Discounts through Employment Hero Work

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

NEP Group in Melbourne is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team at the Andrew’s HUB in Southbank. The principal purpose is to drive proactive improvements in performance, reliability, and developer experience of the NEP Platform across Kubernetes-based infrastructure on‑premise and in AWS/GCP environments.

You will build developer-friendly tools, optimize deployment pipelines, enhance observability with Grafana/Prometheus, and collaborate with engineering leadership to implement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent
• 2+ years in Software or Systems Engineering
• Automation for scaling using Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and Ansible
• Experience in building and maintaining container platforms such as Kubernetes

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain developer-friendly tools to improve productivity and deployment efficiency for Kubernetes workloads.
• Identify bottlenecks in deployment pipelines and enable faster, reliable deployments.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable self-service tooling for deployments, logs, and infrastructure resources in Kubernetes environments.
• Improve build, test, and deployment automation for Kubernetes infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments (AWS/GCP).
• Provide better visibility into Kubernetes environments through improved observability tools, dashboards, and metrics.
• Manage and improve Kubernetes orchestration across on-premise infrastructure and AWS/GCP clusters to ensure reliability, scalability, and consistency.
• Enhance observability by implementing robust monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions tailored to Kubernetes workloads using tools like Grafana, Loki or cloud-native tools like CloudWatch (AWS) and Stackdriver (GCP).
• Collaborate with Engineering Leadership to implement reliability engineering practices such as load testing, chaos testing, and recovery mechanisms for Kubernetes services.

Skills

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

AWS

GCP

Linux

Chaos testing

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Engineering

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Job description

NEP Group in Melbourne is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our team at the Andrew’s HUB in Southbank. The principal purpose is to drive proactive improvements in performance, reliability, and developer experience of the NEP Platform across Kubernetes-based infrastructure on‑premise and in AWS/GCP environments.

You will build developer-friendly tools, optimize deployment pipelines, enhance observability with Grafana/Prometheus, and collaborate with engineering leadership to implement