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Job requirements
• Own and evolve Nexl's AWS infrastructure using Terraform, including migration and consolidation of cloud providers.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows, reducing friction and increasing deployment confidence.
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and observability across the platform.
• Use AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, config generation, automation, and operational workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to support scale, performance, and reliability as the product grows.
• Participate in on-call rotations; lead incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortems.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks including secret rotations and environment management.
• Improve security posture across IAM, secrets, and networking.
• Optimise cloud cost and performance, connecting infrastructure decisions to business impact.
Job responsibilities
• Strong AWS experience across ECS, RDS, Aurora, and related services.
• Azure experience — ability to build, manage, and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure on Azure.
• Familiarity with Docker and containerised deployment patterns.
• Experience with PostgreSQL performance metrics and migration tools.
• Experience with Terraform or other IaC tooling.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub Actions and CircleCI.
• Strong observability and operational awareness across tools like New Relic and SigNoz.
• Proficient in using AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, automation, and operational decision-making.
• Security-aware, with a strong collaboration mindset and a bias toward simplicity.
• High ownership and accountability mindset, with the ability to operate autonomously and drive outcomes.
• Kubernetes experience.
• Multi-cloud experience (Fly.io, DigitalOcean).
• Cost optimisation experience.
• Support for data-heavy or AI-driven systems.
• Experience in SaaS or scale-up environments.
• Experience in highly regulated industries.
• Nexl's AWS infrastructure is stable, well-documented, and engineers rarely think about it because it just works.
• CI/CD pipelines are fast, reliable, and deployment confidence is high across the team.
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• Incidents are rare; when they happen, response is swift, structured, and followed by meaningful post-mortems that prevent recurrence.
• Observability coverage means issues are caught proactively, not reported by users.
• Security and cost posture improve measurably over time, with clear connections drawn between infrastructure decisions and business outcomes.
• Engineering teams feel unblocked; infrastructure is an enabler, not a bottleneck.
• Automation reduces toil to the point where the team is spending time on high-value work, not repetitive ops tasks.
Job benefits
• Hybrid working. You'll be in our Sydney hub 2 days a week for collaboration.
• Work from anywhere. Spend up to four weeks a year working remotely from a location of your choice.
• Birthday leave. Take a paid "Nexl Day" during the week of your birthday.
• High growth. A scaling environment with autonomy, ownership, and visible impact.
• Learning & development. A dedicated budget to support your professional growth, on your terms.
• ESOP. Employee stock options so you share in the upside.
• Birthday leave. Take a paid "Nexl Day" during the week of your birthday.
• Parental leave. Paid leave to support you and your family as it grows.
• Transparent by default. Fortnightly all-hands with strategy, metrics, wins, and learnings.
• Purposeful connection. A jam-packed social scene — weekly catered lunch, quarterly socials, team off-sites, and events throughout the year to bring the team together.
• Tools & tech. Modern, AI-first ways of working to help you move faster and smarter, plus a work laptop.
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