Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Role Overview
The role champions DevOps and SRE culture and industry best practices within Megaport.
The engineer works across time zones with team members to keep systems secure, maintainable, and available.
The role involves stakeholder engagement, requirements analysis, demonstrations, hands-on technical work, peer reviews, and research.
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About Megaport
Megaport is a Network as a Service company that connects businesses to cloud providers, data centers, and each other.
The company operates globally across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and the Americas and partners with major technology providers.
Role overview
The role champions DevOps and SRE culture and industry best practices within Megaport.
The engineer works across time zones with team members to keep systems secure, maintainable, and available.
The role involves stakeholder engagement, requirements analysis, demonstrations, hands-on technical work, peer reviews, and research.
What you will be doing
- Improve production reliability and system resilience within an SRE-scoped team.
- Champion high standards of work and industry best practices.
- Communicate with teams and stakeholders at all stages.
- Bring fresh ideas and encourage others.
- Investigate complex technical problems and work across numerous technologies.
- Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and blameless post-incident reviews.
- Write code, handle alerts, improve solutions, and support others.
What we are looking for
- At least 5 years administering Linux systems and related infrastructure in production environments.
- Familiarity with SRE concepts including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, blast radius, and blameless postmortems.
- A focus on automation, reducing toil, and preventing problem recurrence.
- A track record of writing runbooks for the broader team.
- Strong Kubernetes and broader ecosystem fundamentals.
- Cloud infrastructure experience; AWS is strongly preferred and bare-metal experience is a bonus.
- Strong tool development with Bash, plus Python, Go, or a similar language preferred.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience, with Terraform preferred.
- CI/CD and version-control experience, with GitHub preferred.
- Experience with one of PostgreSQL, Cassandra, or ClickHouse is preferred.
- Experience operating production observability stacks covering metrics, logs, and traces.
- Comfort with live production infrastructure, troubleshooting, incident response, continual development, and self-directed work in an async distributed team.
Workplace
- Megaport describes the working environment as remote-first, with coworking options available.
What we offer
- Benefits include four weeks of paid annual leave, parental leave, birthday leave, and a purchased annual leave program.
- The company provides wellness support, learning and training allowances, and paid study leave.
- Employees have access to modern workspaces, an inclusive team environment, and recognition programs.
About megaport
Publicly traded infrastructure platform providing businesses with on-demand compute, network, and storage services.
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