Summary
Jarid Spokes is a Senior Systems Engineer with 11–12 years’ experience specializing in cloud platforms, SRE, CI/CD, and FinOps, who thrives on ambiguous, cross-cutting technical challenges. At REA Group he built an AWS budget burn-down alerting platform used across 11 portfolios, drove major CI performance gains, and embedded as a Systems Engineering Business Partner for a rotating set of 12 teams. He blends hands-on engineering—Terraform, Lambda, Buildkite optimizations and AWS cost pipelines—with operational consulting, incident triage, and platform tooling. Lately he’s pioneered LLM-assisted engineering workflows (Claude Code agents for security triage, Jira automation and PagerDuty/log correlation), surfacing automation patterns others can extend. Fast at reasoning end-to-end through unfamiliar systems, he excels at practical solutions that improve reliability, visibility, and cost accountability. Based in Victoria, Australia, he prefers roles that mix infrastructure, automation and platform work.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
CCNA Coursework, Networking, CCNA Coursework, Networking at Ringwood Trade Training Facility
Bachelor of Information Technology, Systems Administration, Bachelor of Information Technology, Systems Administration at RMIT University
English