Sr Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

CareCone Group

Sydney

On-site

AUD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

22 hours ago

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Job summary

CareCone Group in Sydney seeks an experienced Sr Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate cloud platforms on AWS. You will drive automation, reliability, and scalability for mission-critical applications, partnering with engineering teams to improve release quality and customer experience.

The role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, incident management, and resiliency within a highly regulated enterprise environment.

Qualifications

8–10 years of experience in SRE/DevOps or related field
Strong AWS cloud engineering and automation background
Experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms in regulated environments

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
Support cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives
Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible)
Automate deployments, environment provisioning, database refreshes, and operational processes
Manage secrets, certificates, access controls, and cloud security controls
Develop reusable infrastructure modules and deployment standards

Skills

AWS Cloud

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python scripting

Linux

Observability

Incident management

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitLab

Grafana

Splunk/ELK

CloudWatch

Vault

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Oracle migration tools

Job description

Role: Sr Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Experience: 8-10 years

Location: Sydney

Key Technologies

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced AWS DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to build, automate, operate, and continuously improve cloud platforms and mission-critical applications. The role focuses on AWS cloud engineering, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, platform reliability, observability, incident management, resiliency, and operational excellence within a highly regulated enterprise environment.

The successful candidate will drive automation, reliability, performance, scalability, and availability of cloud-native platforms while partnering with engineering teams to improve release quality, operational stability, and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure and platform services.
Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
Support cloud migration and platform modernization initiatives.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and configuration management (Ansible).
Automate deployments, environment provisioning, database refreshes, and operational processes.
Manage secrets, certificates, access controls, and cloud security controls.
Develop reusable infrastructure modules, deployment standards, and platform engineering patterns.

Site Reliability Engineering

Define and implement reliability engineering practices, operational standards, and platform blueprints.
Establish and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and fault tolerance for mission-critical applications.
Drive proactive reliability improvements through automation and elimination of operational toil.
Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization activities.
Support disaster recovery planning, backup validation, resilience testing, and business continuity initiatives.
Participate in production readiness reviews and ensure operational requirements are embedded into solution designs.

Observability & Monitoring

Design and implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks.
Build and maintain dashboards, health checks, metrics, and operational reporting.
Enhance end-to-end system visibility using CloudWatch, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
Drive alert tuning and noise reduction to improve operational effectiveness.
Establish monitoring standards across applications, infrastructure, databases, and integration components.

Incident & Operational Management

Lead incident triage, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
Support production systems and provide timely resolution of infrastructure and application issues.
Drive reduction of Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).
Develop operational runbooks, knowledge articles, and recovery procedures.
Collaborate with engineering and support teams to implement preventative actions and continuous improvement initiatives.
Participate in on-call and major incident management activities where required.
Promote DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering best practices.
Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment reliability and automation maturity.
Integrate security, observability, and operational controls into CI/CD pipelines.
Support release management, change governance, and deployment strategies.
Champion Infrastructure as Code, automation, and self-service platform capabilities.