About us

Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $1.25 billion. Our world-class software is the easiest way for small and medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We’ve grown 100% year-on-year since our inception in 2014, and now service over 200,000 businesses and 1 million+ active users globally. We have exciting growth plans for 2023 and beyond, powered by our mission of making employment easier and more valuable for everyone.

We take a Remote First approach with our team. Employment Hero can hire across the world, so long as candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable time zone to their colleagues. If you’ve got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!

*This role is fully remote and can be performed from anywhere within the United Kingdom for those with full working rights.

About our Senior Infrastructure Engineer job:

Core to our SaaS business is our infrastructure engineering function, and as a growing business we’re in need of experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineers to help us scale and optimise our performance and uptime capabilities, including working to Service Level Objectives (SLO). As our newest Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll design processes and pipelines that ensure reliable workflows for developers as they deploy applications. You’ll have a goal of enhancing engineers’ productivity, as you develop internal tooling and automations. This role needs someone who can work really well independently, but also know how to take initiative to work with multiple types of stakeholders to achieve goals, for example working with security experts and architects to enforce best application and infrastructure security practices.

REQUIREMENTS

• Provide Cloud operation functions for a growing SaaS platform, focused on performance, uptime, and scalability
• Optimising infrastructure components for uptime and performance (SLOs)
• Participating in on-call rotations, incident management and providing emergency response for production incidents
• Collaborate with stakeholders, including security experts and architects to ensure and enforce best application and infrastructure-security practices

To be a success in this role you need to (must have)

• Core:
  • Expertise in running a highly-available SaaS platform leveraging the AWS Cloud platform with deep knowledge of infrastructure design and deployment across multiple regions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge of .NET based system deployments and running
  • Experience with Linux command line tools, operating system internals, networking layers and popular web application components (background jobs workers, web servers, load balancers, etc).
  • Strong understanding and 3+ years experience of at least one programming language and one configuration management tool
  • Expert level on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) based environment and use of complimentary service offerings on production deployments
  • Deep experience in cloud-native architectures; including MicroService architecture, ServiceMesh, Secret management, Observability solutions, etc.
  • Understanding of modern continuous integration / delivery pipeline and Gitops workflow
  • Strong sense about stateful systems and their use cases, including but not limited to ElasticSearch, MS SQL Server, AWS S3 and Kafka
  • Knowledge of serverless technologies and design patterns including Lambda, DynamoDB
  • Background which includes industry standard compliance (eg. ISO 27001:2013, GDPR)
  • Critical thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  Bonus:
  • Background of using Terraform and Pulumi
  • Appropriate AWS certification (eg. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional)

Nice to have skills/experience:

• Background of using Terraform
• Appropriate AWS certification (eg. AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional)
• Experience with Ruby or Golang
• Knowledge of .NET based system deployments and running

Benefits

• Self, health, wealth and happiness programs
• Remote-first and flexible working arrangements
• A generous budget to spend on setting up your home office (if you need a desk, chair, or screen? We’ve got you covered!)
• We set you up for success with the latest and greatest hardware, tools and tech
• Learning and development (including an external study policy, live monthly professional development classrooms, and premium online learning content!)
• Social events to get to know your new colleagues
• Team celebrations
• Employee Share Option Program: be an owner of Employment Hero!

Why join Employment Hero?

* Raised $181M achieving unicorn status in February 2022

* LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2021, ranked #2 in Australia

* The Australian Top 100 Innovators List 2021

* Raised $140M Series E round led by Insight Partners July 2021

* Raised $45M Series D round led by Seek 2021

* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2020, ranked #42 in Australia

* LinkedIn Top 10 Startups 2020

* Raised $22M Series C Round led by Seek July 2019

* Raised $8 mill series B round led by Seek and OneVentures

* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2019, ranked #20 in Australia

* GetApp Category Leader Q1 2019

* Deloitte Technology Fast 50 2018, ranked #12 in Australia

* HRD Gold Medalist - Human Capital Management Systems 2018

* HRD Gold Medalist - Rewards and Recognition Service Provider 2018

* HRD Rewards and Recognition Employer of Choice 2018

* LinkedIn Top 25 Startups 2018

* EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Finalist 2018

Note to Recruiters: Employment Hero has a dedicated in-house recruitment team who are focused on finding the very best talent for our organisation and we kindly request that Recruiters do not contact us regarding assisting with our job vacancies. While we appreciate your interest and expertise, we have everything we need in-house to attract and hire the right candidates for our team. Thank you.

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