Site Reliability Engineer

Orkes · Australia and Middle Europe

Posted about 3 months ago · $125,000-250,000

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open: 87 days
Reposted: No
Salary listed: Yes
Ghost-job risk at Orkes: high
Hiring momentum: 22 roles opened in the last 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board: 2026-10-29

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About this role

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Orkes, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems in cloud environments. Your role will involve defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response efforts, improving observability, automating workflows, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance system resiliency and scalability. You will also support Kubernetes infrastructure and build internal tooling and operational best practices.

Our read on this posting3.4out of 5

benefits: 2/5
freshness: 1/5
career value: 4/5
role clarity: 5/5
pay transparency: 5/5

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What you need

5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related infrastructure roles
Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or OpenTelemetry
Proficiency with infrastructure automation and scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash, etc.)

Nice to have

Experience supporting large-scale SaaS or cloud-native platforms
Familiarity with workflow orchestration technologies such as Conductor, Temporal, or Camunda
Experience with Kafka, messaging systems, or event-driven architectures
Knowledge of security best practices and cloud infrastructure hardening
Open-source contributions or strong systems engineering background

What you get

Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, and vision
Flexible PTO
Support for personal development

Worth weighing

Remote role with a requirement for 15-20% travel
Salary range is broad and variable based on multiple factors
Focus on distributed systems and cloud orchestration may not appeal to all candidates

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Listed by Orkes on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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