Job Description
We're hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer!
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Full-time | Permanent
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Preferred locations: Sydney, Brisbane, or Melbourne.
Open to Perth based for the right candidate!
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Hybrid working: 2 days in office, 3 days WFH
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Does a competitive salary package with company stock, five wellness days per year, a flexible benefits package of $**** per year and a fantastic team culture spark your interest?
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Meet AlayaCare!
We're a fast-growing SaaS scale-up on a mission to transform aged and disability care across Australia, Canada, the US and beyond. Our platform helps care providers deliver exceptional service in homes, communities, and residential settings.
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We're big on Tech with Purpose and passionate about improving lives - all while having a little fun along the way (we've been known to enjoy a team lunch or three).
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The Role:
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We're on the lookout for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who's ready to bring their self-starting nature, AWS experience & analytical mind to the table. Reporting to the SRE, Engineering Manager, you'll help drive the reliability of our live SaaS solutions across the region.
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Your days will involve:
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Development, Automation, and Tooling
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Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and platform services, including Kubernetes and observability tooling
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Implement infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automated testing to ensure reliable, repeatable environments
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Contribute to code and configuration reviews to improve scalability, maintainability, and reuse.
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All the above using AI first mindset and development tooling such as Cursor and Kiro.
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Build and tune AI Agents to accelerate delivery, and automate repetitive tasks.
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Reliability and Operations
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Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and improve logging, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks
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Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews to improve long-term reliability.
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Requirements and Collaboration
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Partner with Product, Engineering, and development teams to translate requirements into practical infrastructure solutions.
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Identify risks related to operability, security, performance, and cost, and recommend appropriate trade-offs.
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Continuous Improvement
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Contribute to operational quality through runbooks, security practices, performance tuning, and process improvements
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Proactively identify issues, raise concerns, and stay current with emerging SRE practices and technologies.
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You'll thrive in this role if you:
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Bring 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps or a similar role
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Believe that AI agents can be better than humans at certain tasks and are interested in maximizing their usage
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Have solid hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform
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Have practical experience running workloads on Docker & Kubernetes
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Are known for your problem-solving skills and your ability to work well autonomously
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Are proficient in at least one development or scripting language (such as Python, Go, Bash)
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Have practical knowledge of infrastructure as a code (CloudFormation or Terraform)
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Have some knowledge of APM, logging & metrics systems (New Relic, Prometheus or ELK)
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Have some background knowledge of system & network security fundamentals
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Have some experience participating in incident management
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Bonus points if you:
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Have knowledge of databases (such as MySQL/PostgreSQL)
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Have Azure experience
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Have knowledge of the aged or disability care sector
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Have previous experience with AlayaCare/Procura products
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We believe outstanding work should be rewarded. Here's how we show our appreciation:
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Choose your own 2 days/week in office, 3 days WFH
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Competitive salary + company stock (RSUs)
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???? 5 Wellness days per year
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$1,000/year flexible benefits package
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22 weeks company-paid parental leave
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???? 2 days company-paid volunteer leave to support causes you care about
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Team lunches, events & wellness activities
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???? A genuinely open, inclusive, and collaborative culture
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A chance to do purposeful work in the fast-paced tech sector, whilst making real impact in the care space.
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Belonging matters.
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We're committed to building an organisation that reflects the communities we serve. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility aren't just buzzwords here, they're woven into everything we do.
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Need adjustments to participate in the recruitment process? We've got you. Just reach out to our HR team: hr. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from Recruitment Agencies.

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Alayacare
📍 Melbourne