Senior DevOps & SRE Engineer: Cloud & Kubernetes

Hcltech; South Australia; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies in Australia seeks a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable platform services across cloud and on‑prem environments. This role requires deep expertise in SRE, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, incident management, and modern cloud‑native technologies.

The successful candidate will drive reliability improvements, reduce operational toil, and champion engineering excellence across the platform.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CDtools.
• Deep understanding of SRE principles, including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, toil reduction, andincident management.
• Proven experience with incident response, root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and on-call operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architecture and hybrid infrastructure.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell and Python.
• Experience with observability and APM tools including AppDynamics, Splunk, SplunkObservability Cloud, Azure Application Insights, and Datadog.
• Strong understanding of distributed tracing, log analytics, and alerting strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for prod and non-prod environments.
• Define, measure, and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical platform services.
• Manage hybrid infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments with a focus on automation, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive platform security best practices and compliance across environments.
• Design and maintain microservices frameworks and container orchestration using Kubernetes and AKS.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Implement and continuously improve monitoring and observability solutions using AppDynamics, Azure Application Insights, Splunk, Splunk Observability Cloud, and Datadog.
• Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence.
• Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation and self-healing systems.
• Perform capacity planning and proactive performance tuning across platform services.
• Troubleshoot production issues across AIX and Linux systems, including performance analysis and system diagnostics.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless platform integration.
• Manage and track work using JIRA and ServiceNow.
• Provide technical leadership in Azure services, including networking, compute, storage, identity, and cost optimisation.
• Maintain and optimise application servers such as IBM WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server.
• Write and maintain scripts in Shell and Python for operational and automation tasks.
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure operational readiness for production systems.
• Contribute to chaos engineering practices and resilience testing to validate system reliability.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and blameless learning.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

SRE principles

Python

Shell scripting

Incident management

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

JIRA

ServiceNow

PagerDuty

Job description

HCL Technologies in Australia seeks a Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable platform services across cloud and on‑prem environments. This role requires deep expertise in SRE, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, incident management, and modern cloud‑native technologies.

The successful candidate will drive reliability improvements, reduce operational toil, and champion engineering excellence across the platform.