Summary
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Take end-to-end ownership of an AWS platform as a Lead DevOps Engineer in a fast-growing SaaS environment. You will lead the DevOps function while staying hands-on across containerized infrastructure, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, and cloud cost management.
Highlights
Lead a DevOps function while remaining hands-on, with end-to-end ownership of AWS infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, reliability, security, and cost management in a fast-growing SaaS environment.
Description
About the business
Innova Search is working exclusively with a well-established SaaS scaleup in Australia who are looking for an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer.
You must come from an infrastructure or networking background and have experience working in a fast paced SaaS scaleup or startup.
The opportunity
You would own the AWS platform end to end and lead the DevOps function while staying hands-on yourself.
What you'll own
The AWS platform.
Compute, networking, storage and IAM across a containerised estate on ECS.
You own how it runs and what it costs.Infrastructure as code.
The Terraform codebase is yours: modules, state, multiple environments, kept clean as the team grows.Releases.
CI/CD from merge to production, with staged rollouts, working rollback, and a clear line from a build number to what is running.Observability and SLOs.
Instrumentation standards, dashboards, and service level objectives agreed with the engineers who own each service.Reliability and security.
Incident response and postmortems that lead to change, the on-call rotation, and network-level security: segmentation, access control, and acting on external penetration test findings.
What you'll bring
You must have experience working in a fast-paced SaaS product firm.Your background is infrastructure and networks.
You have built and run systems yourself, and that grounding matters here more than a software engineering track.Several years running production infrastructure on AWS, with real on-call experience.Containers in production at scale, on ECS or a close equivalent.Strong Terraform across a multi-environment codebase, including state and drift at scale.You have owned CI/CD end to end.
The current pipeline runs on Jenkins; GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar carries over.Practical observability work, including instrumenting applications.Solid Linux and networking fundamentals, and the security judgement to anticipate what a penetration test will find.You notice when something should be better and push it forward without being asked.
What's on offer
The full infrastructure remit for a growing platform, with real say over how it is built.A direct line to the CTO.Hybrid, 2-3 days in the Sydney CBD office.Salary $170-200k + super (depending on experience).
Why this role
If you have lifted the standard of infrastructure somewhere before and want to do it again with the whole remit yours, it is worth a conversation.
How to apply
Apply using the button below.
We welcome applications and referrals from people of all backgrounds and will be in touch with suitable candidates as soon as possible.
Innova has been exclusively retained to manage this search.
All applications and enquiries will be handled in strict confidence.
Due to the high volume of applications, we will only be able to call those who are shortlisted for the next stage.
Thank you for your patience while we review applications.
About Innova
Innova is an Australian technology search firm specialising in software, product, architecture, data and AI.
We partner with businesses from executive leadership through to specialist delivery teams, with every search led by a founder and specialist in the function being hired.
