About Envato
Everything we do is to empower creative professionals to thrive, with unlimited access to high-quality assets, tools, tutorials and more. Essentially, we exist to empower creatives to thrive.
We proudly support the lives of creative professionals 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.
We’re a global values led company, blending purpose and profit, and a passionate B Corp we are committed to making a positive impact on the communities we engage in. We have long embraced flexible ways of working, and we’re proud of how we keep our global team connected. Our roles can be based across Australia, New Zealand and Mexico.
You can read more about us on our company blog, including news of our acquisition by Shutterstock Inc in 2024.
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.
What you'll be doing
- 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.
About you
- 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
Life at Envato
• Flexible Working - Remote-first with flexibility for you to manage work and life as you need.
• Work from Anywhere - Apply to work in another location for up to 3 months per calendar year.
• Connection Budget - An annual budget to connect with the team IRL where and when possible.
• Learning Budget - Study leave and an annual budget for you to put towards your learning and development.
• Home Office Allowance - A contribution towards your set-up and a monthly allowance to support work from home costs.
• Wellbeing - Access to a holistic assistance program that provides support in many areas of life and health.
• Volunteer Leave - 2 days per calendar year to volunteer and give back to the community.
• Parental Leave - 20 weeks paid primary carer leave, and 6 weeks paid secondary carers leave.
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