SRE: AI-Driven Cloud Reliability & Automation

Cover Genius; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cover Genius is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability and infrastructure across multiple teams. You will shape system design, tooling, and processes for scalable production systems and ensure rapid, safe delivery of features.

You will bring strong cloud, observability, and automation skills, with a track record in Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP, and AI-enabled development. The role emphasizes collaboration, security, and proactive risk reduction.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps or related roles.
• Strong understanding of SRE and platform engineering principles with cross-team project leadership.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience with cloud native tech: Docker, Kubernetes; infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Scripting and internal tooling with Bash and at least one language (Python/Go).
• Fluency with AI-assisted development environments (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) and applying them to production workflows.
• Experience with Linux, networking, distributed systems and high-availability deployments.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability and infrastructure projects across teams and domains.
• Architect and build reliable, highly-available cloud infrastructure across products.
• Develop observability standards, tooling, and dashboards for multiple teams.
• Champion SLOs and incident response; act as incident commander for major outages.
• Reduce toil through automation and self-service tooling.
• Develop and maintain runbooks and incident playbooks.
• Apply AI-assisted development to infrastructure problems and guide teams.
• Contribute to capacity planning and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers on systems thinking and production ownership.
• Implement security best practices in pipelines and infra.

Skills

SRE

Platform Eng

DevOps

Observability

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python/Go

AI tools

Linux

Networking

AWS/GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Datadog

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Bash

Python

Go

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Cover Genius is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability and infrastructure across multiple teams. You will shape system design, tooling, and processes for scalable production systems and ensure rapid, safe delivery of features.

You will bring strong cloud, observability, and automation skills, with a track record in Kubernetes, IaC, AWS/GCP, and AI-enabled development. The role emphasizes collaboration, security, and proactive risk reduction.