Senior SRE & Observability Lead - AWS & FinOps

Affix; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Office 3 days a week

Cost optimisation focus

Job summary

pay.com.au is seeking a Staff Engineer to own SRE, AWS infrastructure, observability, and incident management across engineering. You will build the reliability charter from scratch, stand up on‑call and incident response, and turn a new Datadog investment into a real observability practice, setting SLIs and error budgets where none exist today.

The role is AWS‑centric (Lambda, ECS) with Terraform automation, and includes opportunities to influence architecture and production risk as the

Qualifications

• Owned an SRE or reliability charter end to end.
• Experience in AWS serverless (Lambda) and container (ECS).
• Strong incident management and observability discipline.

Responsibilities

• Own the SRE and reliability charter from scratch.
• Define on‑call, incident response, and error budgets.
• Build and codify observability practices and SLIs.

Skills

SRE

AWS

Observability

Incident management

DevOps culture

Tools

AWS Lambda

AWS ECS

Datadog

Terraform

Job description

pay.com.au is seeking a Staff Engineer to own SRE, AWS infrastructure, observability, and incident management across engineering. You will build the reliability charter from scratch, stand up on‑call and incident response, and turn a new Datadog investment into a real observability practice, setting SLIs and error budgets where none exist today.

The role is AWS‑centric (Lambda, ECS) with Terraform automation, and includes opportunities to influence architecture and production risk as the