Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Envato as a Lead Infrastructure Engineer and contribute to the reliability and performance of our systems. You will lead initiatives to enhance system reliability, performance, and security, mentor the team, and collaborate on designing and building infrastructure. This role requires experience in AWS cloud-based applications, Linux administration, and infrastructure automation. You'll be working remotely with full flexibility, supported by a comprehensive benefits package including paid parental leave, a work-from-home allowance, and professional development opportunities. Envato values a supportive and inclusive culture, offering a remote-first work environment and flexible working arrangements.

Requirements

• Experience automating failover scenarios to improve system reliability
• Committed to continual learning and professional growth
• Aligns with Envato’s passionate and supportive culture
• Contributes positively to both operations and development work
• Strong communicator, adding value through collaboration and documentation
• Experience building and maintaining AWS cloud-based applications and infrastructure
• Knowledge of caching techniques, CDNs, and DDoS mitigation for performance and security
• Skilled in Linux administration, monitoring, logging, and infrastructure automation
• Experience creating and maintaining Internal Development Platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to enhance system reliability, performance, security and minimise toil
• Educate and mentor the team to build infrastructure knowledge and skills
• Continuously improve processes by learning from incidents and near-misses
• Collaborate on designing, building, and provisioning infrastructure for new products and initiatives
• Develop software to integrate infrastructure with services and APIs
• Support and coach engineers to strengthen technical infrastructure and monitoring expertise
• Improve monitoring and measurement systems to support operational scale and continuous delivery
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews
• Optimise application performance, efficiency, and latency across the stack
• Identify and mitigate risks, supporting security and change management processes

Benefits

• We are a remote business with full flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need - outcomes are what’s important to us
• We provide MacBook Pros or HP’s for you to do your best work, as well as all your initial and ongoing tech setup to suit your individual needs
• It’s important you love your home office so we will provide a contribution towards your set up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs
• Want to expand your family? We will support you! We offer 20 weeks paid primary carer leave (with super paid on top for the first 12 months); and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave
• Connection is so important in a remote business. That’s why we provide you with an annual allowance to meet up with colleagues and share some food and a laugh
• Continuous improvement is encouraged and we provide an annual budget for you to put towards your learning
• We know our product is awesome so we will provide you with a free Envato Elements subscription for your side gigs and/or personal use
• Your wellbeing is paramount and we provide access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health