Remote Senior Platform Engineer (SRE) — Cloud Reliability

Midnite; Brisbane; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Midnite is seeking a Senior Platform / Site Reliability Engineer to own and grow a cloud-based SaaS environment. This remote Australia-based role emphasizes hands-on AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL/RDS, CI/CD, and disaster recovery to improve reliability and performance across regions.

The successful candidate will work independently to maintain secure, scalable infrastructure, optimize deployment processes, and collaborate with software teams to prevent incidents and accelerate growth.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in Platform or SRE, DevOps, or cloud infra.
• At least 3 years managing AWS production environments for SaaS.
• Hands-on with Terraform and IaC.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and DR planning.
• Strong PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage AWS production environments across Australia and the United States using Terraform.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability to identify and resolve issues early.
• Maintain CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment processes, including automated health checks and rollbacks.
• Ensure PostgreSQL and Amazon RDS databases remain reliable, secure, and optimized for performance.
• Develop, document, and regularly test disaster recovery procedures.
• Monitor infrastructure capacity and prepare systems for increasing customer demand.
• Collaborate with software development teams to improve application reliability and performance.
• Manage infrastructure maintenance, server updates, security patches, and vulnerability fixes.
• Investigate production incidents, identify root causes, and implement long-term solutions.
• Improve infrastructure automation and operational processes without disrupting ongoing development.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Cloud Infrastructure

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Observability

Security Best Practices

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD Tools

Monitoring/Observability Tools

Job description

Midnite is seeking a Senior Platform / Site Reliability Engineer to own and grow a cloud-based SaaS environment. This remote Australia-based role emphasizes hands-on AWS, Terraform, PostgreSQL/RDS, CI/CD, and disaster recovery to improve reliability and performance across regions.

The successful candidate will work independently to maintain secure, scalable infrastructure, optimize deployment processes, and collaborate with software teams to prevent incidents and accelerate growth.