Senior SRE: Remote Cloud Reliability Lead

Lily Lifestyle; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Upsun, a remote-first software company, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to evolve our cloud platform towards automation-driven operations.

You will own reliability for production systems across multi-cloud environments, implement IaC with Terraform, and raise observability standards. Collaboration with product and platform teams is essential to embed SRE practices in roadmaps. Remote-friendly role in Australia.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or DevOps, with proven production-scale reliability ownership.
• Proficiency in Go or Python to build automation tools and platform components.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals, kernel parameters, networking, and performance troubleshooting.
• Extensive experience with cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and declarative IaC tools (Terraform).
• Strong autonomous ownership, systems thinking, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Architect monitoring, alerting, and logging with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack, defining actionable SLIs/SLOs.
• Automate infrastructure and workflows using IaC across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Scale CI/CD and delivery pipelines for fast, secure, zero-downtime releases.
• Lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and preventative measures.
• Collaborate with product and software teams to embed SRE practices in roadmaps.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and evaluate emerging technologies to improve platform stability.
• Follow a 4-week rotation balancing engineering and operations to drive reliability and innovation.

Skills

Senior SRE

Go or Python

Linux internals

Terraform

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Ansible

Job description

Upsun, a remote-first software company, is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to evolve our cloud platform towards automation-driven operations.

You will own reliability for production systems across multi-cloud environments, implement IaC with Terraform, and raise observability standards. Collaboration with product and platform teams is essential to embed SRE practices in roadmaps. Remote-friendly role in Australia.