Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you are a champion for DevOps and SRE culture and industry best practice within Megaport. You will work alongside talented team members in multiple timezones ensuring that systems are secure, maintainable and available. External to the team you will be engaging with stakeholders in requirements analysis and demonstrations. Technically you will be very hands on. Continually evolving your skills through a mix of peer reviews and research. Ultimately your obsession is customer success and ensuring company goals are met.

Improving production reliability and system resilience within an SRE scoped team

Championing high standards of work and industry best practices

Communicating with teams and stakeholders at all stages

Bringing fresh ideas to the table and encouraging others

Diving into complex technical problems with a can-do attitude

Working across numerous technologies in a fast-changing industry

Participating in on-call rotation, incident response, and blameless post-incident reviews

Writing code, handling alerts, improving solutions, and supporting others

Playing a crucial role in the success of your company and team

5+ years administering Linux systems and related infrastructure in production environments

A collaborative SRE mindset, with familiarity around SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, blast radius, and blameless postmortems

A focus on automation, reducing toil, and preventing problem recurrence

A track record of writing runbooks that work for the broader team, not just yourself

Strong Kubernetes and broader ecosystem fundamentals

Cloud infrastructure experience; AWS strongly preferred and bare-metal is a bonus

Strong tool development - Bash, plus either Python or Go preferred, or similar

Infrastructure-as-code tooling experience - Terraform preferred

CI/CD and version control, GitHub preferred

Database experience - one of Postgres, Cassandra, or ClickHouse preferred

Experience operating a production observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), with an eye for signal over noise

Comfortable working on live production infrastructure, with strong troubleshooting instincts and ownership of incident response

A history of continual professional development

A self-directed style suited to an async, globally distributed team, and comfortable picking up adjacent work when the situation calls for it

Flexible working environments

Birthday Leave

Generous study and training allowance + 5 days paid study leave

Creative, fun, and contemporary workspaces

Motivated team of industry experts and new talent

Celebrated success with ‘Legend’ and ‘Kudos’ Awards

Health and wellness program