SRE Lead: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability & Security

Ampstek; Perth; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampstek in Perth seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to guide a mature Kubernetes-based platform. You will own incident response, define SRE standards, and mentor engineers across cloud, application, architecture and security teams.

You will design and operate AKS environments, implement GitOps with Argo CD and Helm, build CI/CD pipelines, and establish end-to-end monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. This is a long-term contracting role.

Qualifications

• Team lead for SRE capability portfolio.
• Develop backlogs and roadmaps for SRE improvements.
• Support Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring, and security for app teams.
• Coordinate incident response for Kubernetes-related work.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and establish SRE/observability standards.
• Lead production incident management, RCA and problem management.
• Design and operate AKS environments with upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Implement GitOps using Argo CD, Helm and Git; automate deployments.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions; IaC with Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Establish end-to-end monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor and OpenTelemetry.

Skills

SRE

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security

Tools

Kubernetes

AKS

Terraform

Bicep

Argo CD

Helm

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Ampstek in Perth seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to guide a mature Kubernetes-based platform. You will own incident response, define SRE standards, and mentor engineers across cloud, application, architecture and security teams.

You will design and operate AKS environments, implement GitOps with Argo CD and Helm, build CI/CD pipelines, and establish end-to-end monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana. This is a long-term contracting role.