Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Relx Plc; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IDVerse in Sydney is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate a secure, scalable AWS-based platform behind our identity-verification services. This hands-on role covers infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Product teams in a global, follow-the-sun setup. Required strong AWS, IaC with CDK, Linux, and deep observability; preferred container platforms and security-focused

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in production environments.
• Strong AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, networking).
• Proven IaC/automation experience; AWS CDK preferred.
• Linux/Unix administration, networking, security knowledge.
• Deep observability (metrics/logs/traces) and incident management experience.
• Experience with CI/CD, release automation, and runbooks.
• Familiarity with SRE methods (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
• Strong documentation and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure.
• Drive reliability through automation and capacity planning.
• Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices (AWS CDK).
• Improve monitoring, dashboards, and runbooks; rapid incident diagnosis.
• Lead incident response and post-incident root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with engineering to create reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

AWS

SRE

CI/CD

Linux

Observability

Incident response

Capacity planning

Security awareness

Documentation

Collaboration

Tools

AWS CDK

Lambda

API Gateway

RDS

DynamoDB

Networking

Serverless

Job description

## Senior Site Reliability EngineerApply: Sydney: Full time: Posted Today: R120902**About the team**IDVerse is a part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, we're helping organisations build trust online through AI-powered identity verification and fraud prevention technology. **About the role**IDVerse is looking for a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to help build and operate the secure, reliable AWS platform behind our global identity-verification services. This is a hands-on role with ownership across infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.You will work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team. **What you'll do*** Build, operate, and improve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure and platform services.* Drive reliability through automation, observability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilient architecture.* Own infrastructure as code and CI/CD practices, with extensive use of AWS CDK.* Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, runbooks, and rapid incident diagnosis.* Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and operational readiness reviews.* Partner with engineering teams to create reusable platform capabilities that improve developer productivity.* Apply and drive adoption of the AWS AI-DLC framework across Product, Architecture, Engineering, DevOps, and Security.* Participate in global follow-the-sun support and help strengthen operational standards and documentation.* undefined **Required qualifications*** 5+ years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, Cloud Platform, or systems engineering experience in production environments.* Strong AWS experience, including Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, and serverless architecture is a MUST TO HAVE.* Proven experience with infrastructure as code and automation; AWS CDK experience is strongly preferred.* Strong Linux/Unix administration, networking, load balancing, troubleshooting, and system security knowledge.* Deep observability experience, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and service health dashboards.* Experience with CI/CD, release automation, incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.* Experience designing reliable systems using practical SRE methods such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.* Experience with AI-assisted software development and familiarity with Spec-Driven Development practices and supporting tools.* Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.* Ability to work independently, make sound operational decisions, and escalate early when needed. **Preferred qualifications*** Experience with container platforms, Kubernetes, or ECS.* Experience with security reviews, vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, and high-trust production environments.* Experience supporting globally distributed, customer-facing services and follow-the-sun operations.* Experience mentoring engineers and establishing SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering standards.* Background in identity verification, fraud prevention, fintech, or another security-sensitive domain. **Location and collaboration**The team is globally distributed. Candidates must be based in Australia with full working rights and be able to collaborate across time zones.**We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click** **here** **to access benefits specific to your location.**We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.