Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Platform Resilience – Melbourne

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Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Platform Resilience – Melbourne

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  • Date posted

    September 24, 2026

  • Closing date

    October 24, 2026

  • Location

    Melbourne

  • Experience

    senior-level

Description

Role Overview & Position Context

Adobe Australia is seeking an exceptional professional to join our Melbourne engineering hub as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Platform Resilience. In this role, you will help design, build, and operate tier-1 cloud-native systems serving enterprise customers across Australia and international markets. Direct cloud infrastructure automation, chaos engineering experiments, and automated self-healing primitives across multi-cloud footprints.

Location: Melbourne, Australia
Package: $178,000 – $218,000 + 11.5% Super
Employment: Full-Time Permanent
Experience: Senior / Lead Specialist

Key Responsibilities & Scope of Work

  • Drive 99.99% availability service level objectives (SLOs) across tier-0 production services.
  • Standardize infrastructure-as-code pipelines using GitOps (ArgoCD) and Terraform modules.
  • Lead critical incident management post-mortems and engineer blameless systemic remediations.
  • Automate progressive canary deployments, blue-green traffic switching, and fast rollbacks.
  • Implement comprehensive distributed tracing and synthetic user journey health checks.

Technical Competencies & Core Skills

Core Tools, Frameworks & Standards:

TerraformKubernetes (EKS/GKE)PrometheusOpenTelemetryGoChaos Mesh

Required Qualifications & Background

  • Bachelor or Master of Science in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent practical industry experience.
  • Demonstrated professional experience designing, building, and operating modern cloud-native systems in production.
  • Strong proficiency in modern programming languages, cloud infrastructure automation, and automated testing practices.
  • Proven ability to articulate architectural decisions, lead technical design proposals (RFCs), and mentor fellow engineers.
  • Unrestricted working rights in Australia.

Remuneration, Benefits & Culture

  • Highly competitive remuneration package ($178,000 – $218,000 base + 11.5% statutory superannuation).
  • Substantial employee equity participation / Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) or annual incentive bonuses.
  • Flexible hybrid work environment with home office setup allowances and top-tier hardware.
  • Generous paid parental leave, wellness stipends, and comprehensive continuous learning budgets.
  • Dynamic, collaborative engineering culture emphasizing autonomy, technical curiosity, and work-life balance.

Work Rights & Compliance: Applicants must hold full working rights in Australia (Australian Citizenship, Permanent Residency, or an eligible unrestricted working visa). Relevant background checks, national police clearances, and qualification verification will be conducted prior to appointment.

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