At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a cloud engineering team to enhance a high-traffic digital platform's reliability and performance.
- Company: Dynamic tech company focused on innovative cloud solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive day-rate, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Immediate start for a 6-month contract in Melbourne or Sydney.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by optimising cloud infrastructure and automating processes.
- Qualifications: 4-5 years in Site Reliability Engineering with strong GCP and Kubernetes skills.
The predicted salary is between 56250 - 68750 $ per year.
We're looking for two experienced Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a cloud engineering team supporting a high-traffic digital platform.
You'll work across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, infrastructure automation and production reliability, with a focus on improving performance, scalability and cloud cost efficiency.
This is a hands-on engineering role covering both production support and platform improvements.
You'll help manage and improve existing infrastructure while introducing better automation, observability and incident response practices.
The team is also exploring emerging approaches such as AI-assisted operations, automated incident response and self-healing infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Production Support & Reliability: Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across GCP, manage production incidents and improve platform stability.
- GCP Infrastructure: Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, with a focus on availability, performance and reliability.
- Kubernetes & GKE: Manage, deploy and scale containerised applications using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
- Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain Terraform configurations, including reusable modules, remote state management and infrastructure provisioning.
- Git Ops & Automation: Automate infrastructure and application deployments using Argo CD, Git Ops practices and CI/CD tooling.
- Observability & Monitoring: Implement Open Telemetry, distributed tracing, monitoring dashboards and alerting using GCP Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging and tools such as Dynatrace.
- Cloud Cost Optimisation: Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through GKE rightsizing, resource management and automated cloud usage reporting.
- Networking & Security: Manage GCP networking, VPCs, firewalls, load balancing, private clusters, IAM and service account permissions.
- Continuous Improvement: Improve operational processes, reduce manual intervention and develop automation to support platform reliability.
- Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops or Cloud Engineering.
- Extensive experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GKE and Helm, including deployment, scaling and troubleshooting.
- Advanced Terraform experience, including modules, remote backends and state management.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops or Harness.
- Experience implementing Git Ops workflows with Argo CD.
- Practical experience implementing Open Telemetry for distributed tracing and metrics, alongside monitoring, dashboards and alerting.
- Experience with GCP networking, including VPCs, load balancing, private endpoints and firewall configuration.
- Understanding of GCP IAM, service accounts, Workload Identity and least-privilege access.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot production incidents across infrastructure, containers and applications.
- Preferred / Bonus Skills
- AWS infrastructure experience.
- Experience troubleshooting JVM-based applications in Kubernetes environments.
- Fin Ops experience, including cloud billing analysis, GKE rightsizing and cost optimisation.
- SQL and Big Query experience, particularly building automated reporting or cloud cost data pipelines.
- Python or Bash scripting for automation.
- Experience with Cloud Run, Cloud Functions or Cloud Scheduler.
- Familiarity with Apigee X or similar API management platforms.
- Exposure to AI-assisted operations, automated incident response or self-healing systems.
We're looking for two experienced Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join a cloud engineering team supporting a high-traffic digital platform.
You'll work across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, infrastructure automation and production reliability, with a focus on improving performance, scalability and cloud cost efficiency.
This is a hands-on engineering role covering both production support and platform improvements.
You'll help manage and improve existing infrastructure while introducing better automation, observability and incident response practices.
The team is also exploring emerging approaches such as AI-assisted operations, automated incident response and self-healing infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Production Support & Reliability: Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues across GCP, manage production incidents and improve platform stability.
- GCP Infrastructure: Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure, with a focus on availability, performance and reliability.
- Kubernetes & GKE: Manage, deploy and scale containerised applications using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm and CI/CD pipelines.
- Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain Terraform configurations, including reusable modules, remote state management and infrastructure provisioning.
- Git Ops & Automation: Automate infrastructure and application deployments using Argo CD, Git Ops practices and CI/CD tooling.
- Observability & Monitoring: Implement Open Telemetry, distributed tracing, monitoring dashboards and alerting using GCP Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging and tools such as Dynatrace.
- Cloud Cost Optimisation: Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through GKE rightsizing, resource management and automated cloud usage reporting.
- Networking & Security: Manage GCP networking, VPCs, firewalls, load balancing, private clusters, IAM and service account permissions.
- Continuous Improvement: Improve operational processes, reduce manual intervention and develop automation to support platform reliability.
- Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 4-5 years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Dev Ops or Cloud Engineering.
- Extensive experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, GKE and Helm, including deployment, scaling and troubleshooting.
- Advanced Terraform experience, including modules, remote backends and state management.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops or Harness.
- Experience implementing Git Ops workflows with Argo CD.
- Practical experience implementing Open Telemetry for distributed tracing and metrics, alongside monitoring, dashboards and alerting.
- Experience with GCP networking, including VPCs, load balancing, private endpoints and firewall configuration.
- Understanding of GCP IAM, service accounts, Workload Identity and least-privilege access.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot production incidents across infrastructure, containers and applications.
- Preferred / Bonus Skills
- AWS infrastructure experience.
- Experience troubleshooting JVM-based applications in Kubernetes environments.
- Fin Ops experience, including cloud billing analysis, GKE rightsizing and cost optimisation.
- SQL and Big Query experience, particularly building automated reporting or cloud cost data pipelines.
- Python or Bash scripting for automation.
- Experience with Cloud Run, Cloud Functions or Cloud Scheduler.
- Familiarity with Apigee X or similar API management platforms.
- Exposure to AI-assisted operations, automated incident response or self-healing systems.
- Contract Details
- Engagement: Day-rate contract
- Start: Immediate
- Duration: 6 months
If you're an experienced GCP-focused SRE who enjoys hands-on engineering, solving production problems and improving cloud infrastructure through automation, we'd be keen to hear from you.
Site Reliability Engineer - GCP in Sydney employer: The Onset
At The Onset, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer in the heart of Australia's dynamic tech landscape. Our collaborative work culture fosters innovation and creativity, while our commitment to employee growth ensures that you have access to ongoing training and development opportunities. With the autonomy to shape your role and the chance to build meaningful partnerships with industry leaders, you'll find a rewarding and fulfilling career path here.
