Senior DevOps Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Event-Driven

Nexl; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working in Sydney hub

Remote work up to 4 weeks/year

Employee stock options (ESOP)

Birthday leave

Job summary

Nexl, a fast-growing LegalTech company in Sydney, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to evolve our cloud infrastructure and enable a scalable, maintenance-friendly event-driven architecture. You will work with backend, AI, product, and design teams to improve deployment, observability, and reliability.

You will own Azure infrastructure (AKS, Terraform, CI/CD) and drive costs, security, and performance improvements in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, operating, or evolving production event-driven systems.
• Experience with event infrastructure concepts, trade-offs, and operational concerns.
• Experience with Kafka or SNS/SQS and similar messaging systems.
• Strong Kubernetes experience with production workloads.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, preferably Terraform.
• CI/CD pipeline and deployment workflow improvements.
• Robust observability and troubleshooting capability.
• Experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and security awareness.
• High ownership and autonomous work style in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve Nexl’s cloud migration, consolidation, and operational readiness.
• Design and operate the platform’s future event-driven architecture, evaluating and implementing technologies.
• Own and evolve Azure infrastructure, including AKS, Terraform-managed environments, CI/CD, and deployment workflows.
• Improve platform reliability, observability, security, and incident response.
• Build automation for environment management, secrets, configuration, and diagnostics.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve system performance and scalability.
• Lead on-call rotations and contribute to post-incident improvements.
• Improve cloud cost and performance, aligning infra decisions with business impact.

Skills

Event-driven systems

Event infrastructure

Kafka / SNS-SQS

Kubernetes production

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Observability & troubleshooting

Azure cloud infra

IAM & security

Autonomous / ownership

Tools

AKS

PostgreSQL (optional)

Job description

Nexl, a fast-growing LegalTech company in Sydney, seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to evolve our cloud infrastructure and enable a scalable, maintenance-friendly event-driven architecture. You will work with backend, AI, product, and design teams to improve deployment, observability, and reliability.

You will own Azure infrastructure (AKS, Terraform, CI/CD) and drive costs, security, and performance improvements in a fast-moving environment.