Remote SRE Engineer — Cloud & Kubernetes (AU)

Axon; Greater Shepparton; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Annual Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit

Paid Time Off

Monthly Stipend for Medical Insurance

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave

Emotional & Mental Wellness Support

Learning & Development Programs

Job summary

Axon is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate our real-time cloud-native services from anywhere in Australia. You will focus on reliability, performance, and secure cloud platforms while collaborating with product teams to deliver scalable features.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years in software engineering, SRE, or infra roles, strong Linux and cloud skills (Azure/AWS), and hands-on Kubernetes experience.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of relevant experience in software engineering, SRE, or infrastructure roles.
• Solid understanding of operating systems, preferably Linux.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or similar
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms like AKS, EKS, or similar
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Go, C#, Java, or similar
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation practices
• Experience with observability tools (logging, metrics, APM)
• Exposure to Infrastructure as Code concepts (e.g., Terraform, ARM)
• Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn
• Good communication and collaboration skills
• Australian government security clearance, or ability to obtain clearance (AUS citizenship) required

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud platforms and tools.
• Apply site reliability engineering principles to improve system stability and performance.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
• Troubleshoot and debug issues in distributed cloud-native systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support service reliability and operational excellence.
• Create and maintain documentation to support engineers and improve self-service capabilities.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, learning best practices along the way.
• Continuously develop your skills and contribute to team knowledge sharing.

Skills

Linux

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Programming languages

CI/CD

Observability

IaC

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Terraform

ARM

AKS

EKS

Python

Go

Job description

Axon is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate our real-time cloud-native services from anywhere in Australia. You will focus on reliability, performance, and secure cloud platforms while collaborating with product teams to deliver scalable features.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years in software engineering, SRE, or infra roles, strong Linux and cloud skills (Azure/AWS), and hands-on Kubernetes experience.