Senior Site Reliability Engineer

RELX (Singapore) Pte Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

IDVerse is seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to build and operate a secure, scalable AWS platform behind our identity-verification services. This hands-on role covers infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success across a globally distributed team, while based in Australia with full working rights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, cloud platform, or systems engineering experience in production environments.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Job description

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.

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.

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 escalating 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.