Aerospike is a real-time database for mission-critical use cases and workloads, including machine learning, generative, and agentic AI.
Job Overview:
We are seeking an experienced leader to establish a new regional SRE team in Australia. As a founding member, you will play a pivotal role in building and shaping a high-performing team from the ground up.
Main Responsibilities:
* Team Formation & Leadership: Build and lead a new regional SRE team, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring top-tier engineers.
* Technical Direction: Set technical priorities for the AU team, ensuring strong execution across observability, reliability engineering, automation, and incident management.
* Global Collaboration: Coordinate with other regional SRE leaders to drive consistent follow-the-sun coverage, enabling seamless handoffs and continuity of operations across time zones.
* Operational Excellence: Own and refine SRE processes for the region, ensuring system health, performance, and availability.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience providing 24x7 production support for cloud-based, business-critical systems, with demonstrated leadership in managing operations for enterprise-class organizations during challenging situations.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
* 5+ years of experience providing 24x7 production support for cloud-based, business-critical systems
* 2+ years of experience in technical leadership or management roles
* Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
* Experience with automation pipelines for cloud infrastructure and software using technologies such as Terraform, Packer, and Ansible
* Experience supporting distributed, multitenant, auto-scalable backend services
* Experience with NoSQL or relational databases, and database fundamentals
* Experience with maintaining distributed services on both virtual machines and containers with orchestration
Preferred Skills: Experience building or leading new engineering teams, especially within a globally distributed organization; knowledge of secure multi-cloud operations in compliance-conscious environments; Linux administration and troubleshooting; scripting or operations engineering, preferably with bash, Python, and golang.