Senior DevOps Engineer
Corto Pty Ltd16 hours ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, capacity, cost, upgrades, migrations, backup, and recovery of RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Valkey, and OpenSearch.
- Build and maintain secure, scalable, and cost-aware AWS infrastructure across multiple environments and regions using Infrastructure as Code.
- Identify reliability risks, standardize infrastructure patterns, and improve operational processes through automation.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and build reusable self-service tooling for deployments and routine operational tasks.
- Maintain actionable monitoring, alerts, operational runbooks, and participate in the weekly out-of-hours on-call rotation.
- Lead complex incident investigations and implement fixes that prevent recurrence.
- Apply least-privilege access, encryption, secrets management, and AWS-aligned security practices.
- Partner with development and Quality Engineering teams, review infrastructure and automation changes, mentor engineers, and communicate technical risks and trade-offs.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience operating production AWS infrastructure, including networking, IAM, security, and observability.
- Deep PostgreSQL administration experience, preferably with RDS and Aurora, including query tuning, indexing, locking, connection management, and recovery.
- Production experience with DynamoDB, Valkey or Redis-compatible caches, and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, including performance tuning, capacity management, and failover.
- Strong proficiency in a scripting or programming language such as Python, Bash, C#, or JavaScript.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation or Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git, and code review practices.
- Typically 5+ years of experience in DevOps, cloud, platform, site reliability engineering, or a related role.
- Demonstrated ownership of production databases and cloud infrastructure, process improvement through automation, complex technical investigations, and lasting remediation.
- Experience guiding other engineers and collaborating across development and operational teams.
- Relevant experience from DBA, Software Engineering, Support Engineering, or Quality Engineering roles is valued.
- Relevant AWS certifications are desirable.
Benefits
- Hybrid and flexible working in Sydney, Australia.
- Career and learning opportunities in a fast-scaling global technology business.
- Additional time off, gym membership, and other well-being perks.
- Celebrations, social events, sports teams, and access to sailing and yacht events.
- Access to LEAP Home, an ATI Group program supporting employees in buying their primary residence.
- Autonomous work on complex projects with opportunities to make a meaningful impact.
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About Corto Pty Ltd
Corto builds AI-powered legal software for law firms, combining practice management, legal research and drafting assistance, workflow automation, and integrated accounting. The cloud-based platform is sold on a subscription basis to legal practitioners and firms, supporting matter management, billing, and document automation. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Sydney, Corto is part of ATI Global, an international legaltech group.