Lead Infrastructure Engineer

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About Envato

We exist to empower creatives to thrive independently and as a community. We work to be the must-have, most used, intelligent and essential creative companion where we empower creatives to create freely and confidently, and accelerate their everyday creative process however and wherever they work.  

We proudly support the lives of creative pros all over the world, from web developers and graphic designers, to marketers, videographers, photographers and more. We’ve built a community where anyone can get their creative projects done, and where creators bring their ideas to life and in the process, earn a living doing what they love. Our mission is to be the singular destination for creative assets. It doesn’t get much better than that! 

We are a global and rapidly scaling business. Blending purpose and profit, we're a passionate B Corp, committed to making a positive impact on the communities we engage in. You can read more about our purpose, mission and values on our website.

We’re leaders in flexibility and have embraced ways of working to encourage this for a long time. Where we can, let’s make work, work for you! Our roles can be based ANYWHERE in Australia or New Zealand, and while we all mostly work from home we’re proud of how we keep our global team connected.

About the Role:

As a Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will support the Engineering Manager and the broader team in ensuring the reliability and performance of Envato’s systems. You’ll play a key role in driving long-term sustainability, scaling infrastructure to support growth, and mentoring the team to enhance their infrastructure skills. This role will provide leadership and technical guidance for engineers as well as drive new practices and initiatives to uplift how the teams work.

• 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.

• 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

Some of the great things we offer

• 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.

Our culture

• We are B Corp certified & believe in succeeding sustainably as one global team. 

• We are leaders in flexible working and really walk the talk - our work from anywhere benefit allows you to work and travel for up to 3 months in another country. We have also removed standard hours from contracts  to empower our people to work in a way that makes sense to them.

• We support working parents through a range of initiatives, including being a proud partner with Grace Papers.

• As part of our values and vision, Envato contributes 2% of profits to charities in each of the three main countries we operate in.

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