Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Department: Engineering

We’re hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer!

• 🗓️ Full-time | Permanent 

• 📍 Preferred locations: Sydney, Brisbane, or Melbourne. Open to Perth based for the right candidate! 

• 🏡 Hybrid working: 2 days in office, 3 days WFH  

Does a competitive salary package with company stock, five wellness days per year, a flexible benefits package of $1000 per year and a fantastic team culture spark your interest? 

👋 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. 

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). 

 The Role: 

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. 

Your days will involve: 

Development, Automation, and Tooling 

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and platform services, including Kubernetes and observability tooling 

• Implement infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automated testing to ensure reliable, repeatable environments 

• Contribute to code and configuration reviews to improve scalability, maintainability, and reuse. 

• All the above using AI first mindset and development tooling such as Cursor and Kiro. 

• Build and tune AI Agents to accelerate delivery, and automate repetitive tasks. 

Reliability and Operations 

• Monitor production systems, troubleshoot issues, and improve logging, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks 

• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews to improve long-term reliability.  

Requirements and Collaboration 

• Partner with Product, Engineering, and development teams to translate requirements into practical infrastructure solutions. 

• Identify risks related to operability, security, performance, and cost, and recommend appropriate trade-offs.  

Continuous Improvement 

• Contribute to operational quality through runbooks, security practices, performance tuning, and process improvements 

• Proactively identify issues, raise concerns, and stay current with emerging SRE practices and technologies. 

You’ll thrive in this role if you: 

• Bring 5+ years of experience in SRE/DevOps or a similar role 

• Believe that AI agents can be better than humans at certain tasks and are interested in maximizing their usage 

• Have solid hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform 

• Have practical experience running workloads on Docker & Kubernetes  

• Are known for your problem-solving skills and your ability to work well autonomously 

• Are proficient in at least one development or scripting language (such as Python, Go, Bash) 

• Have practical knowledge of infrastructure as a code (CloudFormation or Terraform) 

• Have some knowledge of APM, logging & metrics systems (New Relic, Prometheus or ELK)  

• Have some background knowledge of system & network security fundamentals 

• Have some experience participating in incident management 

Bonus points if you: 

• Have knowledge of databases (such as MySQL/PostgreSQL) 

• Have Azure experience 

• Have knowledge of the aged or disability care sector 

• Have previous experience with AlayaCare/Procura products 

We believe great work should be rewarded. Here’s how we show our appreciation: 

• 🏡Choose your own 2 days/week in office, 3 days WFH 

• 💰 Competitive salary + company stock (RSUs) 

• 🧘 5 Wellness days per year  

• 💳 $1,000/year flexible benefits package  

• 👶 22 weeks company-paid parental leave 

• 🧡 2 days company-paid volunteer leave to support causes you care about 

• 🍕 Team lunches, events & wellness activities 

• 🤝 A genuinely open, inclusive, and collaborative culture 

• 💡 A chance to do purposeful work in the fast-paced tech sector, whilst making real impact in the care space.  

Belonging matters. 

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.  

Need adjustments to participate in the recruitment process? We’ve got you. Just reach out to our HR team: hr[email protected]. We do not accept unsolicited CVs from Recruitment Agencies.