Site Reliability Engineer

Sydney, New South Wales
Operations – SRE /
Full-time /
Hybrid
Who we are and what we do

Audinate leads the world in networked media with our "Dante" technology which is used extensively in professional audio & video applications, including live events, broadcast, entertainment venues and communication systems.

Dante replaces all audio and video connections with a computer network, effortlessly sending video or hundreds of channels of audio over slender Ethernet cables with perfect digital fidelity. Adopted by hundreds of manufacturers in thousands of products, Dante is the de facto standard for modern AV connectivity.

You’ll find us in the largest companies and institutions like the Sydney Opera House, NFL Media Headquarters, Microsoft, major universities and even a 900-year old cathedral featured in Harry Potter.

About the role

We're seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), who is comfortable with applying modern “dev” principles to sysadmin practices: whole of lifecycle from design to release and production support to ongoing development. We’re a dynamic engineering technology company with plenty of opportunities to take the initiative in a highly technical environment.

The role is multifaceted: around one-third to one-half of your time will involve working with our software, hardware and test engineering teams to help them deliver our awesome Dante products; the balance will be project work in delivering the infrastructure that powers Audinate’s services and improving the flexibility and performance of our production environments. 

How we work

We have flexibility to work from home but also collaborate every week in-person at our office in Surry Hills as well as working remotely alongside engineering and operations colleagues in the UK, Belgium and the Philippines.

Responsibilities

    • Manage our on-prem services: Linux and Proxmox infrastructure 
    • A go-to person for AWS: organisation-wide AWS design and operations experience; reviewing work from other teams and helping them make the right choices and execute their work efficiently, all the while ensuring security and availability
    • Administer our CI/CD system’s implementation including configuration management to deliver a more reliable, scalable, secure solution 
    • Work with engineering teams in effectively and efficiently using these infrastructures and services 
    • Evangelise with engineering on improvements to build processes including Dockerisation and artefact management 
    • Resource monitoring, detecting and troubleshooting issues 
    • Contribute to our corporate and production systems architecture and design 
    • Implement, test and deploy new and revised development and production infrastructure/services 
    • Creating and developing documentation 

We're looking for

    • 2+ years of consistent growth with cloud design/architecture and operations experience, preferably with AWS (certification nice but by no means required – practical skills are far more highly valued) 
    • Familiarity with cloud best practices, e.g. AWS Well Architected Framework 
    • Linux systems and higher layer services expertise (OS through to web and database services) 
    • Proven troubleshooting and fault analysis skills 
    • Graceful under fire – able to stay calm and focused under pressure 
    • Interpersonal skills (working with developers, engineers, business and operations & partners) 
    • Ability to work independently and as part of a team 
    • Driven, with grit, and a let’s-get-it-done-right attitude 
    • Agile: flexible, open to change and striving for continuous improvement 

Additional desired skills and experience

    • Provisioning and configuration management: Ansible, Ansible AWX/Tower, Terraform 
    • Monitoring and alerting systems: Prometheus, Grafana 
    • CI/CD systems: Jenkins or Bitbucket Pipelines 
What you’ll experience with us

With us, your ambition extends as far as our reach. Working alongside experts and enthusiasts from different backgrounds, you’ll refine your skills as we define our products. We’ll experience and share a purpose we can see and hear as we pioneer the future of AV together.

In addition to a competitive salary, annual bonus and equity incentive plan, you’ll experience our diverse, values-based culture and a range of benefits such as flexible working through to volunteering leave.