Senior SRE - AWS Platform & Automation (CDK)

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IDVerse, part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, seeks a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer to build and operate a secure, reliable AWS platform behind our identity verification services. This hands-on role covers infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team, owning CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and platform capabilities to boost developer

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in production environments.
• Strong AWS experience with Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, networking, and serverless.
• Infrastructure as code experience; AWS CDK preferred.
• Linux/Unix administration, networking, load balancing, troubleshooting, and security knowledge.
• Deep observability experience: metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and dashboards.
• Experience with CI/CD, release automation, incident management, root-cause analysis, and production support.
• Experience designing reliable systems using SRE methods (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity).
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and Spec-Driven Development tools.
• Strong documentation, communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ability to work independently and escalate early when needed.

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 strengthen operational standards and documentation.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

AWS experience

Infrastructure as code

Linux/Unix administration

Observability & monitoring

CI/CD & incident management

Communication & collaboration

Security awareness

Problem solving

Leadership / incident leadership

Tools

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Docker

ECS

Job description

IDVerse, part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, seeks a Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer to build and operate a secure, reliable AWS platform behind our identity verification services. This hands-on role covers infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and continuous improvement.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Product, Security, and Customer Success in a globally distributed team, owning CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and platform capabilities to boost developer