Senior DevOps / Site-Reliability Engineer

Status: Full-Time

Location: Melbourne, Brisbane or Remote within Australia

At Breadcrumb, we’re building technology that makes worksites safer, more connected, and more compliant - trusted by leading construction and industrial businesses globally.

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to take the lead in shaping the stability, performance, and evolution of our platform. This is very much a hands-on, technically deep role where you’ll own critical infrastructure, influence engineering practices, and help us build the foundations of a world-class tech organisation. If you love solving complex problems and are keen to help drive engineering excellence in a high-growth environment, we’d love to meet you.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain, improve, and modernise our Development, QA, Staging & Production  environments, CI/CD platforms, delivery pipelines and artifact storage systems.
• Deploy, upgrade, and tune internal tooling and shared services for engineering teams.
• Ensure reliability and performance across our tech stack through patching, observability improvements, incident response, and proactive monitoring.
• Dig deep into unfamiliar areas when needed - solving real-world problems with pragmatism and curiosity.
• Lead infrastructure migrations, security hardening initiatives, and platform upgrades.
• Build internal tooling that enhances developer experience and reduces operational friction.
• Select and implement appropriate deployment strategies such as blue-green and canary release patterns by collaborating with development squads and commercial teams.
• Improve validation earlier in the delivery lifecycle, strengthen testability of systems, and reduce the chances of production issues.
• Influence engineering squads with best practice guidance across software delivery, infrastructure, and reliability.
• Provide expert support to product teams, promoting scalability, performance, automation, and reliability thinking.
• Coach engineering teams and help build DevOps/SRE maturity across the business.
• Evaluate new technologies, contribute ideas, test solutions, and help shape the long-term engineering roadmap.
• Continuously refine our infrastructure to stay modern, secure, developer-friendly, and cost-effective.

Who we’re looking for

A highly capable, hands-on SRE or DevOps engineer who excels in fast-paced, product-led tech environments. Someone who loves to experiment with a continuous-improvement mindset, is process-aware but not process-bound, and thrives in scale-up culture where collaboration, agility, and ownership matter.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:

• Have solid experience across both software and infrastructure - ideally with strong Infrastructure as Code experience with tools like Pulumi or Terraform. C# and/or TypeScript experience is a bonus.
• Have built and maintained delivery pipelines of various shapes and constraints.
• Understand the full software development lifecycle and have partnered closely with product engineers.
• Have experience in high-availability SaaS platforms.
• Can design, maintain, and troubleshoot Kubernetes, containers, cloud services, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Are strong with *nix fundamentals and comfortable with tools like bash, grep, sed, jq, curl, or equivalent.
• Are comfortable supporting engineers, answering technical questions, and advising on best practices and enjoy supporting others.
• Enjoy switching contexts and tackling a wide range of practical engineering problems.
• Can work independently while being deeply collaborative, pragmatic, and solutions-first.
• Stay curious, evaluate new tech thoughtfully, and love automation wherever it makes sense.

Bonus Points For:

• Experience with Azure and AWS.
• Exposure to security engineering and partnering with security teams.
• Prior scale-up or startup experience (you enjoy speed, ambiguity, and impact).

Why You’ll Love Working With Breadcrumb

• We’re an ambitious, high-performing team building technology that makes a difference.
• You will have the opportunity to truly own your craft with autonomy to architect, implement, and evolve how we run and deploy software.
• Make a visible impact - improving reliability, performance and developer experience across the business.
• The genuine opportunity to thrive personally and professionally in a supportive, collaborative environment that values balance and wellbeing.
• We invest in our teams’ wellbeing and professional development with support that includes paid mental health days off, an EAP, annual individual professional and personal growth funding.
• Flexibility to work hybrid or fully remote within Australia.
• A culture that values curiosity, innovation, and doing great work together to achieve collective success.