Senior DevOps Engineer

Join to apply for the Senior DevOps Engineer role at Nexl Nexl is the fast‑growing LegalTech company on an ambitious mission to elevate the business of law. We build an AI‑driven CRM and growth intelligence platform that brings a firm’s internal and external data together so lawyers, marketing, and business development can collaborate, spot opportunities, and grow revenue. Recognised by the Financial Times, Deloitte, and the Australian Financial Review as one of the fastest‑growing businesses, Nexl is trusted by 150+ firms globally. We’ve recently closed a $23 million USD Series B led by Tidemark Capital, accelerating our mission to transform how law firms grow by uniting lawyers, marketing, and business development into a single growth engine. The Opportunity We’re scaling our Product & Engineering organisation and expanding our Sydney hub, and we’re looking for our next Senior DevOps Engineer who wants to shape the reliability, scalability, and security of a platform used by leading law firms around the world. If you’re someone who thrives in cloud infrastructure, automation, and systems thinking, this role will give you huge scope. You’ll work across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and observability tooling partnering closely with backend, full‑stack, and AI teams to ensure Nexl is fast, resilient, and effortless to ship to. We’re looking for someone with strong technical depth, a high sense of ownership, and a bias for simplicity — someone who raises the bar, proactively improves systems, and uses AI to accelerate diagnostics, automation, and operational workflows. What You’ll Own & Do Own and evolve infrastructure across AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and observability Partner with engineering teams to support scale, performance, and reliability Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and post‑mortems Improve security posture (IAM, secrets, networking) Optimise cloud cost and performance Use AI tools to accelerate diagnostics, config generation, and automation Contribute to infra direction and mentor engineers What We’re Looking For Must haves: Experience with Terraform or other IaC Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines Strong observability and operational awareness Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems Familiarity with Ruby/Python‑based environments Security‑aware mindset Growth mindset and a desire to continually raise the bar Fluency using AI tools as part of day‑to‑day engineering workflows Nice to haves Multi‑cloud experience (Azure, Fly.io) Support for data‑heavy or AI‑driven systems Experience mentoring engineers or influencing engineering culture Experience in early‑stage or scale‑up environments Life at Nexl High growth. A scaling environment with autonomy, ownership, and visible impact. ESOP. Employee stock options so you share in the upside. Tools & tech. Modern, AI‑first ways of working to help you move faster and smarter, plus a work laptop. Birthday leave. Take a paid “Nexl Day” during the week of your birthday. Transparent by default. Fortnightly all‑hands with strategy, metrics, wins, and learnings. Purposeful connection. Team offsites and meet‑ups. Values‑led culture. Guided by The Nexler Way, our values and operating principles that define who we are, how we work, and how we win together. Our Values Committed to Care – We genuinely care about the work we do and the industry we do it for Human at the Core – Relationships and empathy guide everything we do Different with Purpose – We’re not afraid to stand out. We innovate boldly and deliberately Even if you don’t tick every box, if you’re excited about our mission, we’d love to hear from you. Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full‑time Job function Software Development #J-18808-Ljbffr