Job Description

Nexl is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who is technically rigorous, highly autonomous, and committed to building infrastructure that is reliable, observable, and engineered for scale.

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This role is focused on owning Nexl's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational reliability as the platform and team continue to grow.

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The Senior DevOps Engineer will partner closely with backend, full-stack, and AI engineering teams in an AI-first environment, using AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, automation, and operational workflows. This role is accountable for infrastructure reliability, security posture, and enabling Nexl's engineers to ship with confidence.

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This is a high-ownership role for someone who thrives in systems thinking, has a bias for simplicity and automation, and is energised by making complex infrastructure invisible to the engineers who depend on it.

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What You'll Own & Do

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The Opportunity
n Nexl is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer who is technically rigorous, highly autonomous, and committed to building infrastructure that is reliable, observable, and engineered for scale.

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This role is focused on owning Nexl's cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational reliability as the platform and team continue to grow.

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The Senior DevOps Engineer will partner closely with backend, full-stack, and AI engineering teams in an AI-first environment, using AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, automation, and operational workflows. This role is accountable for infrastructure reliability, security posture, and enabling Nexl's engineers to ship with confidence.

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This is a high-ownership role for someone who thrives in systems thinking, has a bias for simplicity and automation, and is energised by making complex infrastructure invisible to the engineers who depend on it.

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What You'll Own & Do

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- Own and evolve Nexl's AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including migration and consolidation of cloud providers.
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- Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows, reducing friction and increasing deployment confidence.
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- Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and observability across the platform.
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- Use AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, config generation, automation,



and operational workflows.
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- Partner with engineering teams to support scale, performance, and reliability as the product grows.
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- Participate in on-call rotations; lead incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortems.
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- Automate repetitive operational tasks including secret rotations and environment management.
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- Improve security posture across IAM, secrets, and networking.
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- Optimise cloud cost and performance, connecting infrastructure decisions to business impact.
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What We're Looking For Must haves:

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- Strong AWS experience across ECS, RDS, Aurora, and related services.
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- Azure experience — ability to build, manage, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure on Azure.
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- Familiarity with Docker and containerised deployment patterns.
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- Experience with PostgreSQL performance metrics and migration tools.
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- Experience with Terraform or other IaC tooling.
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- Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions and CircleCI.
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- Strong observability and operational awareness across tools like New Relic and SigNoz.
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- Proficient in using AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, automation, and operational decision-making.
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- Security-aware, with a strong collaboration mindset and a bias toward simplicity.
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- High ownership and accountability mindset, with the ability to operate autonomously and drive outcomes.
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Nice to haves:

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- Kubernetes experience.
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- Multi-cloud experience (Fly.io, DigitalOcean).
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- Cost optimisation experience.
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- Support for data-heavy or AI-driven systems.
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- Experience in SaaS or scale-up environments.
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- Experience in highly regulated industries.
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What Success Looks Like:

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- Nexl's AWS infrastructure is stable, well-documented, and engineers rarely think about it because it just works.
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- CI/CD pipelines are fast,



reliable, and deployment confidence is high across the team.
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- Incidents are rare; when they happen, response is swift, structured, and followed by meaningful post-mortems that prevent recurrence.
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- Observability coverage means issues are caught proactively, not reported by users.
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- Security and cost posture improve measurably over time, with clear connections drawn between infrastructure decisions and business outcomes.
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- Engineering teams feel unblocked; infrastructure is an enabler, not a bottleneck.
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- Automation reduces toil to the point where the team is spending time on high-value work, not repetitive ops tasks.
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Life at Nexl

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- Hybrid working. You'll be in our Sydney hub 2 days a week for collaboration.
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- Work from anywhere. Spend up to four weeks a year working remotely from a location of your choice.
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- Birthday leave. Take a paid "Nexl Day" during the week of your birthday.
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- High growth. A scaling environment with autonomy, ownership, and visible impact.
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- Learning & development. A dedicated budget to support your skilled growth, on your terms.
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- ESOP. Employee stock options so you share in the upside.
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- Birthday leave. Take a paid "Nexl Day" during the week of your birthday.
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- Parental leave. Paid leave to support you and your family as it grows.
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- Transparent by default. Fortnightly all-hands with strategy, metrics, wins, and learnings.
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- Purposeful connection. A jam-packed social scene — weekly catered lunch, quarterly socials, team off-sites, and events throughout the year to bring the team together.
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- Tools & tech. Modern, AI-first ways of working to help you move faster and smarter, plus a work laptop.
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📌 Senior DevOps Engineer -- AI-Driven Cloud Infra & CI/CD (New South Wales)
🏢 Nexl
📍 New South Wales