DevOps Lead (Path to CTO) | Hyper Growth Startup | $150k + Super

We are working with a tech company who are looking to scale up their AU team. They build bespoke software for the recruitment space and are looking for a key hire for their team.

This will be a Senior DevOps role, leading a small Indian Team with a path to CTO.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Manage and optimise our AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Lead and mentor a DevOps team of 3 engineers based in India, driving best practices and alignment.
• Work closely with customer-facing teams to investigate and resolve infrastructure and performance issues.
• Own the setup and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines, IaC (Terraform), container orchestration, and infrastructure security (IAM, VPC, etc.).
• Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to reduce downtime and improve reliability.
• Drive automation across deployment, configuration, patching, and scaling workflows.
• Collaborate directly with clients and stakeholders to present technical findings and explain platform decisions confidently.
• Assist in security best practices including encryption, token management, and Cloudflare protections.
• Contribute to release planning and production readiness, ensuring a smooth and auditable pipeline from code to cloud.

What You’ll Bring:

• 4–8 years of DevOps experience, with minimum 2 years based in Australia.
• Strong AWS infrastructure background: EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch.
• Hands-on with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code.
• Good knowledge of Docker and experience with container orchestration (ECS, EKS or Kubernetes).
• Comfortable with Linux systems, scripting (Bash, Python) and log analysis.
• Experience using and configuring Cloudflare (WAF, CDN, DNS, firewall rules).
• Experience setting up secure CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar.
• Understanding of cloud security, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Excellent communication and customer-facing capabilities — able to speak confidently with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in mentoring or leading a small remote team — especially India-based engineering teams.
• Strong documentation habits using Confluence, SOPs, and runbooks.

Salary

They offer an excellent salary of up to $150,000 + Super.

Location

3x per week - Seaford

How to Apply

Please apply asap with your CV to be considered for this position. You can also get in touch with me on [email protected] or reach out on 037 045 5354.

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