Job Description
Innova Search is working exclusively with a well-established SaaS scaleup in Australia who are looking for an experienced DevOps Lead Engineer.
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You must come from an infrastructure or networking background and have experience working in a fast paced SaaS scaleup or startup.
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The prospect
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You would own the AWS platform end to end and lead the DevOps function while staying hands-on yourself.
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What you'll own
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The AWS platform. Compute, networking, storage and IAM across a containerised estate on ECS. You own how it runs and what it costs.
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Infrastructure as code. The Terraform codebase is yours: modules, state, multiple environments, kept clean as the team grows.
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Releases. CI/CD from merge to production, with staged rollouts, working rollback, and a clear line from a build number to what is running.
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Observability and SLOs. Instrumentation standards, dashboards, and service level objectives agreed with the engineers who own each service.
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Reliability and security. Incident response and postmortems that lead to change, the on-call rotation, and network-level security: segmentation, access control, and acting on external penetration test findings.
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What you'll bring
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You must have experience working in a fast-paced SaaS product firm.
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Your background is infrastructure and networks. You have built and run systems yourself, and that grounding matters here more than a software engineering track.
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Several years running production infrastructure on AWS, with real on-call experience.
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Containers in production at scale, on ECS or a close equivalent.
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Strong Terraform across a multi-environment codebase, including state and drift at scale.
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You have owned CI/CD end to end. The current pipeline runs on Jenkins; GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar carries over.
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Practical observability work, including instrumenting applications.
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Solid Linux and networking fundamentals, and the security judgement to anticipate what a penetration test will find.
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You notice when something should be better and push it forward without being asked.
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What's on offer
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The full infrastructure remit for a growing platform, with real say over how it is built.
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A direct line to the CTO.
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Hybrid, 2-3 days in the Sydney CBD office.
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Salary $*******k + super (depending on experience).
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Why this role
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If you have lifted the standard of infrastructure somewhere before and want to do it again with the whole remit yours, it is worth a conversation.

📌 Devops Lead Engineer | Saas | Scaleup (New South Wales)
🏢 INNOVA SEARCH
📍 New South Wales