SRE Engineer with GCP

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd in Sydney, Australia is seeking an SRE Engineer with GCP to join our contract team. You will own hands-on operations across GCP, IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes and security controls, ensuring production stability for multiple cloud platforms.

The role emphasizes productionisation, monitoring, incident response and continuous improvement of cloud-native services within a fast-growing Australian software services company.

Qualifications

• Hands-on GCP platform engineering and production ops.
• Experience bringing cloud platforms from development to production.
• Proficiency with IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes and container-based workloads.
• Strong knowledge of network security, IAM and monitoring/alerting.

Responsibilities

• Support the build, productionisation and ongoing operation of strategic Networks cloud platforms (Networks AI Platform, Event Streaming Mesh, Networks GCP Landing Zone).
• Hands-on management across GCP, IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, security controls and observability.
• Operate cloud platforms post-production and drive improvements in reliability and performance.

Skills

GCP

IAM & workload identity

VPC networking

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Security controls

Observability

Production troubleshooting

Tools

GitLab

Git

Job description

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd | Contract

SRE Engineer with GCP

Sydney, Australia | Posted on 10/13/2026

• XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
• XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
• We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
• XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
• We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite‑offshoreneeds.

Job Description

Position: SRE Engineer with GCP

Detailed Job Description:

Role

• Support the build, productionisation and ongoing operation of a number of strategic Networks cloud platforms, including Networks AI Platform, Event Streaming Mesh and the Networks GCP Landing Zone.
• This is not an architecture role. Need someone who is comfortable getting hands‑on with GCP, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, Kubernetes/containers, security controls, networking, observability and production troubleshooting.
• The ideal candidate has previously taken cloud platforms from engineering into production and then operated them, rather than primarily designing solutions or producing architecture artefacts.

Must-have technical skills

• GCP
• IAM, service accounts, workload identity / federation
• VPC, routing, firewalling, private connectivity and cloud networking
• GCP logging, monitoring and alerting
• Cloud Run and container‑based workloads
• Production troubleshooting within GCP

Infrastructure as Code

• Able to build and maintain reusable modules
• Comfortable taking existing manually configured environments and bringing them under IaC control
• Git‑based infrastructure lifecycle and peer review

DevSecOps / CI/CD

• GitLab or equivalent CI/CD
• Build and deployment pipelines
• Automated testing and security gates
• Secrets and credential management
• Release and rollback strategies
• Environment promotion across non‑prod / prod