Senior DevOps Engineer, AWS Data Platforms & Automation

CORTO; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible & hybrid working

Career & learning opportunities

LEAP Home program

Well-being perks

Job summary

CORTO is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own reliability, performance and security of AWS data platforms (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch) and related infra. You will lead upgrades, migrations and automate processes to reduce manual work.

We value curiosity, ownership and collaboration. Join a fast-growing, hybrid, Sydney-based team building AI-driven legal tech for a rapidly evolving industry, with strong emphasis on automation and security.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS infrastructure, including networking, IAM, security and observability.
• Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL administration, preferably with RDS and Aurora, including query tuning, indexing, locking, connection management and recovery.
• Production experience with DynamoDB, Valkey or Redis-compatible caches, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning, capacity management and failover.
• Strong proficiency in a scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, C# or JavaScript.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation or Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, Git and code review practices.
• Typically 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud, Platform or Site Reliability Engineering, or a related role.
• Demonstrated ownership of production databases and cloud infrastructure.
• A track record of understanding existing processes and delivering practical improvements through automation.
• Experience leading complex technical investigations and implementing lasting fixes.
• Experience guiding other engineers and working across development and operational teams.
• Relevant experience from DBA, Software Engineering, Support Engineering or Quality Engineering roles is also valued.
• Relevant AWS certifications are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance and capacity of data platforms (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch) and related infrastructure.
• Lead upgrades, migrations, backups and improve queries and data access patterns with developers.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure across environments and regions using IaC.
• Identify reliability risks and standardise patterns to reduce failures and simplify operations.
• Identify bottlenecks and automate repetitive work to deliver measurable improvements in CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain monitoring, runbooks and incident response for complex outages and on-call rotations.
• Apply secure defaults, least privilege access, encryption and secret management across platforms.
• Collaborate with engineers and QE teams on decisions; mentor and share knowledge to strengthen the team.

Skills

AWS Ops

PostgreSQL Admin

DynamoDB/OpenSearch

Scripting

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Security & IAM

Collaboration

Leadership

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Git

Job description

CORTO is hiring a Senior DevOps Engineer to own reliability, performance and security of AWS data platforms (RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, OpenSearch) and related infra. You will lead upgrades, migrations and automate processes to reduce manual work.

We value curiosity, ownership and collaboration. Join a fast-growing, hybrid, Sydney-based team building AI-driven legal tech for a rapidly evolving industry, with strong emphasis on automation and security.