Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Cloud Automation | Daily Rate Contract
Location: Sydney | Hybrid
Duration: 6-month contract with potential to extend
Focus: Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Automation & Reliability

About the Role

We're working with a large enterprise looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, resilience and automation of its cloud infrastructure.

You'll work across an established multi-cloud environment, helping engineering teams reduce manual processes, automate incident response and improve how applications and infrastructure recover from failures.

The focus is on hands-on engineering, scripting and automation, working closely with application and platform teams to improve operational efficiency and system availability.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement automated runbooks and incident remediation workflows.
- Reduce manual intervention by automating common production incidents and operational tasks.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Support containerised applications and Kubernetes environments.
- Integrate monitoring and alerting platforms with automated response workflows.
- Develop scripts, APIs and tooling to improve system reliability.
- Improve disaster recovery, failover and resilience processes.
- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines, cloud security and operational practices.
- Work alongside engineering teams to identify recurring issues and implement long-term fixes.

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Cloud Automation | Daily Rate Contract
Location: Sydney | Hybrid
Duration:



6-month contract with potential to extend
Focus: Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, Automation & Reliability

About the Role

We're working with a large enterprise looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, resilience and automation of its cloud infrastructure.

You'll work across an established multi-cloud environment, helping engineering teams reduce manual processes, automate incident response and improve how applications and infrastructure recover from failures.

The focus is on hands-on engineering, scripting and automation, working closely with application and platform teams to improve operational efficiency and system availability.

Key Responsibilities

- Design and implement automated runbooks and incident remediation workflows.
- Reduce manual intervention by automating common production incidents and operational tasks.
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Support containerised applications and Kubernetes environments.
- Integrate monitoring and alerting platforms with automated response workflows.
- Develop scripts, APIs and tooling to improve system reliability.
- Improve disaster recovery, failover and resilience processes.




- Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines, cloud security and operational practices.
- Work alongside engineering teams to identify recurring issues and implement long-term fixes.

What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud or platform engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform such as Azure, AWS or GCP, ideally with exposure to multiple environments.
- Infrastructure as Code experience using tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu or CloudFormation.
- Experience operating containerised workloads using Kubernetes, Docker, AKS, EKS or GKE.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, PowerShell or Go.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps tooling such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Argo CD or Jenkins.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or Splunk.
- Robust troubleshooting skills and experience supporting production infrastructure.

Highly Regarded

- Experience building automated incident response and remediation workflows.
- Runbook automation or orchestration tools such as Rundeck, PagerDuty, Ansible Automation Platform or similar.
- Event-driven automation and integration with monitoring or incident management systems.
- Disaster recovery automation, cross-region failover or resilience engineering.
- REST API integrations and custom engineering tooling.
- Experience improving cloud reliability, operational efficiency and infrastructure costs.

📌 Site Reliability Engineer (Australia)
🏢 The Onset Group
📍 Australia