Platform Reliability Engineer — Observability & Automation

ASX; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid work options

Job summary

ASX is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of critical technology platforms. You will design and operate comprehensive observability, automation, and capacity planning in a hybrid Sydney-based environment.

Join a diverse team delivering secure, scalable services with on-call rotations and IaC-driven automation. Strong scripting, container orchestration, and observability experience are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE/DevOps/Platform engineering experience.
• Strong scripting in Python, PowerShell or alike.
• Solid knowledge of Linux/Windows, networking and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL.
• Familiarity with APIs, real-time messaging and Kafka.
• Experience with non-functional test planning and execution.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, reliability, and performance of critical platforms.
• Design and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Build dashboards and health indicators for real-time visibility.
• Drive continual service improvement and incident reduction.
• Lead root cause analyses and implement permanent fixes.
• Maintain runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Support 24x7 production environments and on-call rotations.
• Implement IaC to automate infrastructure, deployment, and operations.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security, and Product teams to improve outcomes.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance analyses to meet demand.

Skills

Site Reliability

Python/PowerShell

Linux/Windows

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Monitoring/Observability

SQL/NoSQL

Kafka

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/ related

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

ITRS Geneos

OpenTelemetry

AWS CloudWatch

Job description

ASX is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of critical technology platforms. You will design and operate comprehensive observability, automation, and capacity planning in a hybrid Sydney-based environment.

Join a diverse team delivering secure, scalable services with on-call rotations and IaC-driven automation. Strong scripting, container orchestration, and observability experience are essential.