Davidson is the proud recruitment partner of SEC Victoria as they accelerate Victoria’s renewable energy transition.
Do work that makes a difference
The SEC is building an enterprising and dynamic team to accelerate Victoria’s transition to renewables and help achieve Victoria’s renewable energy target of 95% by 2035. We are working together for renewable, affordable, reliable energy for all Victorians.
We have an exciting and ambitious road ahead with a focus on:
- Investing in renewable energy and storage projects that accelerate the transition and deliver commercial returns.
- Supporting households to go all electric to reduce their emissions and energy bills.
- Building the renewable energy workforce our energy transition requires.
The SEC is partnering with industry to transform the energy sector, opening the state up for further innovation and investments in renewables. This includes an initial $1 billion towards delivering 4.5 gigawatts of power through renewable energy and storage projects – the equivalent replacement capacity of coal-fired power station Loy Yang A, which is set to close in 2035.
Your role
As the Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you’ll be the technical authority ensuring the reliability, performance, security and day-to-day operability of SEC’s One Stop Shop digital platform hosted on AWS. You’ll own Level 2 and Level 3 operational support, while also shaping and leading SEC’s DevOps and SRE capability—driving strategic improvements that strengthen platform resilience and scalability.
Working in close partnership with engineering teams and an outsourced Level 1 Managed Service Partner (MSP), you’ll help maintain a strong and effective operating model. Over time, you’ll lead the evolution of the platform toward automation-first, self-healing solutions and high-maturity DevOps practices, embedding reliability engineering at the heart of how the platform is built and run.
This role can be based in either our Melbourne CBD office or our regional office located in Morwell.
What you will do:
Core account abilities include:
Operational Support & Reliability (L2 / L3)
- Act as the L3 escalation point for complex, high-impact, or systemic production incidents
- Provide hands-on L2 support, ensuring timely resolution and operational continuity
- Lead major incident response, including coordination across teams and vendors
DevOps & Platform Strategy
- Act as a technical leader influencing platform architecture and delivery decisions
- Define and own the DevOps and SRE uplift roadmap, aligned to business and technology strategy
- Embed reliability, security, and operability into the SDLC
Automation & Infrastructure as Code (L3 Ownership)
- Design, build, and govern Infrastructure as Code standards (Terraform / CloudFormation)
- Reduce operational toil and reliance on manual processes
- Set engineering standards for scripting and automation
Cloud Platform Engineering (AWS)
- Act as the senior technical authority for AWS platform services, including:
- Compute: EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda
- Web Services: API Gateway, AWS Cognito, AWS WAF and AWS CloudFront CDN
- Data: RDS, DynamoDB
- Networking: VPC, ALB/NLB, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect
- Security: AWS Security Hub, AWS GuardDuty, AWS Config
- Observability: AWS CloudWatch, CloudWatch OpenTelemetry, AWS Managed Prom/Grafana
Observability, Resilience & Risk Management
- Own the observability strategy across application, infrastructure, and customer experience
- Ensure monitoring, logging, and alerting are actionable and aligned with operational priorities
- Lead resilience activities including:
- Disaster recovery and failover design
- Capacity and performance planning
- Failure testing and recovery validation
- Identify and manage operational and platform risks
Who you are:
Experiences and Skills:
Must Have:
- Extensive experience in Senior SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering roles
- Demonstrated ownership of L3 support for complex production platforms
- Strong hands-on experience operating and designing AWS-based platforms
- Proven experience leading major incident response and root cause analysis
- Strong expertise across:
- CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Experience working with MSPs or outsourced support models
- Senior technical leader with a strong hands-on mindset
- Strategic thinker who can balance run, improve, and transform
- Calm and decisive during high-severity incidents
- Strong communicator able to influence engineers, vendors, and leaders
- High sense of ownership and accountability
Highly Desirable:
- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator or higher
- Experience with container platforms (Docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes)
- Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, YAML, JSON etc.)
- Experience implementing formal SRE practices (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets)
- Experience in regulated, critical infrastructure, or high-availability environments
An empowered workforce
A career with us means you’ll be joining a new and vibrant ‘for purpose’ government-owned renewable energy company that:
- Empowers you to influence how we accelerate Victoria’s renewable energy transition and decarbonise our economy.
- Inspires you through meaningful, challenging work in an environment that encourages leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit.
- Supports your growth through career advancement and professional development opportunities.
- Provides hybrid work arrangements, with around 3 days working in Melbourne or Morwell, with flexible work options to meet individual circumstances, providing greater choice and autonomy.
How to Apply
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. We are also deeply committed to building an inclusive workplace that embraces diversity and people with disability, people from the LGBTIQ community, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. We strive to create a respectful and collaborative workplace culture that allows all employees to thrive.
For further information and to explore this opportunity further please contact SECRecruitment@davidsonwp.com
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button. As part of the application process, you will need to provide a copy of your resume and/ or a cover letter (optional) addressing how your skills, knowledge and experience will be relevant to this role. Note: Applicants must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident or hold a valid work permit to be eligible to apply.
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com
