Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps): Building and operating scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure for product development teams with an accent on CI/CD automation, observability, and system reliability. Focus on designing secure platform solutions, troubleshooting complex infrastructural bottlenecks, and enhancing developer experience in a hybrid cloud environment.

Location: Must be based in Sydney, Australia with legal entitlement to work in Australia.

Company

hirify.global is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data centers, campus, and routing environments.

What you will do

• Build, deploy, and operate critical production systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Monitor and enhance developer experience across internal services.
• Develop automation to eliminate toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Create and maintain incident response runbooks and perform postmortem analysis.
• Triage platform and infrastructural issues, collaborating with software engineers to resolve bottlenecks.
• Adopt and implement best practices for secure, fault-tolerant infrastructure.

Requirements

• Must have legal entitlement to work in Australia (Citizenship or Permanent Residency).
• BSc or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in operating software systems at scale.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or shell scripting for automation.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/UNIX administration and debugging.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and server provisioning.

Nice to have

• Experience managing databases like MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB.
• Familiarity with monitoring stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ElasticSearch.
• Experience with containerization and virtualization (Docker, KVM, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD systems like Spinnaker or ArgoCD.
• Experience managing storage infrastructure (NAS, SAN, Ceph).

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an award-winning engineering team recognized for diversity and work-life balance.
• Collaborative environment focused on innovation and cutting-edge networking technology.
• Opportunities to work with a diverse, global-scale infrastructure.