Location: Perth, Australia

Experience: 15+ years

Role: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Lead

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced SRE Team Lead with 15+ years of overall IT experience to lead and enhance the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability portfolio. The successful candidate will work closely with application development and platform engineering teams to improve system reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency across enterprise applications.

The role requires strong expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD, monitoring and observability, and application and container security, along with proven leadership in incident management, technical roadmap development, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the client’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capability portfolio and drive continuous improvement across application teams.
- Develop and maintain technical backlogs, capability roadmaps, and improvement plans aligned with business and operational objectives.
- Collaborate with application development, DevOps, and platform engineering teams to improve application reliability, availability, scalability, and performance.
- Provide technical guidance and support across Kubernetes platforms, container orchestration, deployment strategies, and cluster operations.
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
- Establish and improve monitoring,



logging, alerting, and observability practices to proactively identify and resolve service issues.
- Drive application and container security practices, including vulnerability management, image scanning, security controls, and secure deployment standards.
- Lead and coordinate incident response activities involving Kubernetes clusters, containerised applications, and related infrastructure.
- Conduct root-cause analysis, coordinate remediation activities, and implement preventive measures to reduce recurring incidents.
- Define and promote SRE best practices, including service-level indicators (SLIs), service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level agreements (SLAs), and error budgets where appropriate.
- Work with stakeholders to identify operational risks, prioritise improvements, and deliver measurable reliability outcomes.
- Mentor engineers and promote a culture of automation, collaboration, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Mandatory Skills

- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- CI/CD pipeline design and automation
- Monitoring, logging, and observability
- Application and container security
- Incident management and root-cause analysis
- Technical leadership and team coordination
- Backlog management and roadmap development
- Robust collaboration with application development and platform engineering teams

📌 Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) (Perth)
🏢 Ampstek
📍 Perth