Senior Cloud SRE & Backend Engineer (Java/AWS)

Long Resources Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Long Resources Ltd. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability & Backend Engineer to join our cloud platform team in Australia (Sydney or Melbourne preferred).

This six-month contract role combines software engineering, production support, automation, and distributed systems problem-solving to operate a mission-critical cloud provisioning platform. You will own complex systems, drive operational excellence, and work on activation, suspension, lifecycle management, and retirement of cloud-based

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience supporting production systems.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience.
• Experience building and supporting REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong AWS experience including Step Functions, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB.
• Proven production troubleshooting using logs, metrics, dashboards, and monitoring tools.
• Experience performing root cause analysis and incident resolution.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve production issues across distributed services and cloud infrastructure.
• Diagnose failures, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes.
• Support critical provisioning workflows and customer lifecycle operations.
• Develop tools and automation that reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency.
• Build and enhance Java-based backend services and APIs.
• Improve monitoring, reporting, dashboards, runbooks, and operational processes.
• Drive resolution of complex technical incidents by gathering evidence, analysing logs, identifying impact, and proposing solutions.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and platform teams to improve system reliability and scalability.
• Automate recovery workflows, bulk operations, and repetitive operational tasks.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Microservices

AWS

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Automation

Distributed systems

Tools

OpenAPI

PACT

Gradle

Job description

Long Resources Ltd. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability & Backend Engineer to join our cloud platform team in Australia (Sydney or Melbourne preferred).

This six-month contract role combines software engineering, production support, automation, and distributed systems problem-solving to operate a mission-critical cloud provisioning platform. You will own complex systems, drive operational excellence, and work on activation, suspension, lifecycle management, and retirement of cloud-based