Senior DevOps Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 6, 2026. First seen by Alion on Dec 15, 2025. Freelancer.com scores C on the Alion truth index.
As a critical and trusted member of the Systems Engineering team, you'll be working side-by-side with software engineers to design and deliver mission critical services and systems. You'll be working with infrastructure and services at scale, utilizing wide variety of cutting edge technologies used to support our high-traffic real-time Freelancer.com marketplace and a range of other business products fully deployed in Amazon Web Services cloud and powered by Nginx, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Consul, Docker, and Kubernetes. It is our mission to build highly resilient, dynamically scaling, self-healing systems by automating and monitoring everything using Terraform, Puppet, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, and Jenkins.
Requirements:
- Strong understanding of operating systems, networking and systems architecture;
- Strong experience working with Linux, as well as database, web, and file servers at scale in production environments;
- Strong experience with any cloud, virtualization, and/or container services (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS)
- Experience working with any configuration management and infrastructure orchestration tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform;
- Programming experience with any of Python, Go, PHP,Ruby, Node.js.
- Experience with incident response and security-focused mindset;
- University Degree in Computer Science/Engineering (or related field) is preferred;
Benefits:
- Fast-track your career growth - our meritocratic culture is known for promoting from within and producing industry leaders in tech.
- Delicious Friday lunches from a rotating selection of local restaurants.
- A fully stocked kitchen and beer taps, complemented by a bar with a breathtaking view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House.
- Engaging Weekly Town Halls with global presentations and open Q&A sessions with our CEO (feel free to ask him anything!).
- Regular fun events (Did we mention we once built a soccer stadium in the office with two tonnes of turf?).
- Hack-a-thons - Get hacking and programming in this quarterly company-wide event where teams create solutions to existing problems and win prizes. The 2-day event is filled with games, events, shows, food and more.
- Our office is located in the iconic Grosvenor Place, the home of Freelancer HQ, offering weekly complimentary classes, activities, events, promotions, competitions, and deals.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better:
- Change lives every day - Everything we do as part of our jobs contribute to improving the lives of our users on a global scale. Our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.
- Fast-track your career - We boast a meritocratic culture, renowned for hiring into senior roles from within and producing many business and product leaders in the technology industry.
Who is Freelancer.com?
Freelancer owns Escrow.com, the world’s largest online escrow company with over US$7 billion in transactions secured, powering the sale of jet parts to oil wells. Freelancer also owns Freightlancer & Loadshift, marketplaces with more freight on a typical day than the distance from the earth to the moon, with over 650 million kilometres posted since inception.
This won't be your typical cog-in-the-machine type of job. If you're a high achiever with talent, looking for something more than a boring job in corporate, want to work with the best and brightest and don't need to be handheld, this is the job for you.
If you join a mega-cap technology company as the 10,000th hire you might struggle to figure out the impact you are making. If you join a startup, you might get to work on the latest fad, but likely have few mentors to learn from, work on toy problems and never change the world.
At Freelancer you’ll get to work on a highly diverse, global set of internet-scale challenges where you will make a meaningful difference with real responsibility, while rapidly building your skills. We run a meritocracy - we actively promote from within.
You’ll also change lives - our mission is to provide one billion jobs. Not many companies actually make a difference like Freelancer does in providing opportunity and income to people all around the world.