Site Reliability Engineer
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Summary
A 12-month contract SRE role (Sydney CBD, 4-day week, up to AUD 100/hr incl. super) at a major financial institution via TalentWeb Consulting. Day to day: implementing reliability tooling, instrumentation and alerting, joining on-call rotations, diagnosing incident root causes, and mentoring junior SREs.
Salary: Up to $100p/hr inc super
- Initial 12-month contract
- Sydney CBD location
- 4-day work week
Join a world leading financial institution. You will partner with Application Development and Production Support teams to implement the measures prescribed through the collaboration of the SRE Lead. You will ensure the appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, alerting and on-call routines are in place for key services.
What you'll do
- Partner with infrastructure engineers and application teams to implement the necessary code changes.
- Diagnose root causes for major incident / problem management investigations. Identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement.
- Participate regularly in an on-call rotation with Production Support teammates to learn more about reliability issues affecting their portfolio.
- Mentor SRE resources.
- Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability, observability and operational excellence
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, Bash) for automation.
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting platforms).
- Familiarity with incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis processes
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment automation
- Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API-based architectures
- Experience with system performance analysis, capacity planning, and optimisation techniques
- Knowledge of cloud platforms and/or hybrid infrastructure environments
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration and networking fundamentals
- Understanding of security, risk, and compliance considerations within enterprise environments.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose complex issues
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams
- Typically 2-5 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles
- Experience supporting or maintaining production systems and services
- Experience with incident response, monitoring, or operational support functions.
- Exposure to software development practices and automation
- Ability to work with general guidance on moderately complex technical challenges.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
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