Remote SRE: Reliability, Observability & Scalable Systems

Orkes; Australia; Remote; AUD 178,000 - 356,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

Comprehensive health coverage

Professional development support

Job summary

Orkes is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems running in cloud environments. You’ll define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead incident response while improving observability and automating workflows.

You will collaborate with engineering to optimize capacity, implement runbooks, and support Kubernetes-based infrastructure at scale, while communicating effectively under pressure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Hands-on Kubernetes and containerized environments experience.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Proficiency with infrastructure automation and scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash).
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively in cross-functional environments during high pressure.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability, and performance of production systems in cloud environments.
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets across the platform.
• Lead incident response including detection, triage, mitigation, and postmortems.
• Improve observability with logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards.
• Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil where possible.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system resiliency and scalability.
• Assist with capacity planning, infrastructure optimization, and performance tuning.
• Build internal tooling, runbooks, and operational best practices.
• Support Kubernetes-based infrastructure and distributed systems at scale.
• Act as escalation point for complex production and platform issues.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Infrastructure automation (Terraform)

Python / Bash scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Incident management

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Terraform

Python

Bash

Job description

Orkes is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems running in cloud environments. You’ll define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and lead incident response while improving observability and automating workflows.

You will collaborate with engineering to optimize capacity, implement runbooks, and support Kubernetes-based infrastructure at scale, while communicating effectively under pressure.