Site Reliability Engineer

Avance Consulting; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting is seeking a Team Lead for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to guide cross-functional teams in building reliable, scalable systems on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). You will mentor engineers, drive incident management, and advance observability with Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry.

The role covers end-to-end security, container hardening, and secure CI/CD pipelines using Argo CD, Helm, Git, Terraform and Bicep.

Qualifications

• Be the Team Lead (15Yrs+) for Client Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability portfolio.
• Develop backlogs and roadmaps for improving the SRE capability for different application teams.
• Work with different Application Development teams in supporting their needs across Kubernetes, CI/CD, Monitoring & Observability and Application & Container Security.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, establish SRE/observability standards, mentor engineers and collaborate with application, cloud, architecture and security teams.
• Lead production incident management, troubleshooting, RCA and problem management, driving improvements in availability, performance, resilience and MTTR.
• Design, operate and optimize highly available, scalable and secure AKS environments, including upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Implement GitOps using Argo CD, Helm and Git, enabling automated deployments and config management.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, with IaC via Terraform/Bicep and automation.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor and OpenTelemetry, including dashboards and alerts.
• Embed DevSecOps practices, container security, secrets management, RBAC, security controls and automated security checks within CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Team leadership

SRE

Observability

Incident management

Mentoring engineers

AKS

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Security

DevSecOps

Tools

Argo CD

Helm

Git

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Azure Monitor

Kubernetes

Job description

• Provide technical leadership, establish SRE/observability standards, mentor engineers and collaborate with application, cloud, architecture and security teams.
• Lead production incident management, troubleshooting, RCA and problem management, driving improvements in availability, performance, resilience and MTTR.
• Design, operate and optimize highly available, scalable and secure Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, including upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Implement GitOps using Argo CD, Helm and Git, enabling automated, controlled deployments and configuration management.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, incorporating Infrastructure as Code with Terraform/Bicep and automation.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor and OpenTelemetry, including dashboards & alerts.
• Embed DevSecOps and SecOps practices, container security, secrets management, RBAC, security controls and automated security checks within CI/CD pipelines.

Project objective

• Be the Team Lead (15Yrs+) for Client Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability portfolio.
• Develop backlogs and roadmaps for improving the SRE capability for different application teams
• Work with different Application Development teams in supporting their needs across Kubernetes, CI/CD, Monitoring & Observability and Application & Container Security.
• Lead and coordinate incident response for any work requiring Kubernetes investigation.

In-scope/ Solution

• Coordinating work delivery. releases and run standup meetings.
• Continuous improvement & upgrades on Kubernetes Platform and its enabling applications for other Application Development teams.
• Setting up monitoring tooling and supporting Application Development teams in setting up their monitoring and observability needs.
• Enabling security best practices on Kubernetes, Containers, and other Applications, working with Cyber on Governance and Standards.