Engineering Team Lead – Infrastructure & Operations

Kasada

Team Lead managing Infrastructure & Operations at cybersecurity firm Kasada. Focusing on scalable solutions and team collaboration to defeat adversarial automation.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSCloudKafkaKubernetesLinuxRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Foster a culture of trust, psychological safety, and pragmatic continuous improvement
Not just managing backlog, you are expected to write code, and demonstrate “What Good Looks Like” to the team (architecture, code quality of infrastructure code, reliability, for example). Kasada is handling billions of requests every day and protecting our customers from adversaries, the infrastructure team plays a key role in making that happen.
Shape infrastructure and engineering foundations direction, drive architectural decisions across our AWS and EKS platform, provide architectural and tooling empowerment to other engineering teams with operational management of stateless and stateful systems such as RDS, Redis, Kinesis, Kafka, Kubernetes Operators, Apache Flink
Own and evolve our on-call and incident response practices. All engineers in Kasada participate in on-call, and you'll help make that continue to be sustainable and effective as Kasada grows
Partner with product engineering teams to unblock delivery and improve developer experience with a product mindset and customer empathy

Requirements

What you’ll need

You're energized by collaboration, genuinely curious, and motivated by helping teams (your own and others) deliver with confidence
You have led cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE teams with empathy and great enjoyment, but you do not shy away from getting your hands dirty, whether it is writing glue code, debugging systems, or acting as technical escalation point for critical outages.
You have 5+ years hands on experience in SRE, infrastructure, or DevOps roles, demonstrating experience in managing high-availability cloud infrastructure in production
Strong grasp of production management and reliability engineering of AWS, Kubernetes, Linux, and cloud networking to support secure data movement across regions
Firm believer in developer experience fundamentals through means such as CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure as Code
Product mindset to shape infrastructure and engineering foundation roadmap
Additional bonus points if:
You have experience working in “Platform Engineering” or “Engineering Foundation” teams that treat infrastructure as product
Experience working in SOC2 and PCI compliant software environment

Benefits

Comp & perks

A stake in Kasada’s global success through equity/stock options
Support for growing families, including generous parental leave and resources before, during, and after leave
Wellbeing support to help you grow and recharge, including access to our EAP with confidential counselling for you and your loved ones
Birthday leave
Wellness leave
Annual company offsites to connect, collaborate, and celebrate together
A dog-friendly HQ in Sydney

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSEKSRDSRedisKinesisKafkaKubernetesApache FlinkCI/CDInfrastructure as Code

Soft Skills

collaborationcuriosityempathyleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingdeveloper experience focustrust buildingcontinuous improvementincident response