Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer at Envato, you will support the Engineering Manager and the broader team in ensuring the reliability and performance of Envato’s systems while mentoring the team to enhance their infrastructure skills.

In Short

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements.
• Supportive company culture.
• Opportunities for professional growth.
• Work with a global team.
• Empowerment to make an impact.