Production Reliability Engineer — SRE & Automation Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

ASX in Australia seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, observability and resilience of critical platforms through proactive monitoring, automation, incident management, capacity planning and continuous service improvement.

You will design and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting, develop dashboards and health metrics, drive improvements to reduce disruptions, conduct RCA and post-incident reviews, support 24x7 production environments

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Production Support environments.
• Strong scripting experience in Python, PowerShell.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Windows, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch or similar.
• Knowledge of database technologies, including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or NoSQL platforms.
• Familiarity with integration technologies, including APIs, real-time messaging and streaming architectures such as Kafka.
• Non-functional test planning and execution experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, and resilience of critical technology platforms and services.
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Develop meaningful dashboards, operational metrics, and health indicators to provide real-time visibility of platform performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce service disruptions and improve platform stability.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate reliability risks across production environments.
• Conduct root cause analyses (RCA) and post-incident reviews, driving permanent resolutions and preventative actions.
• Maintain operational runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures to support rapid incident resolution.
• Support 24x7 production environments and participate in on-call rotations where required.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure, deployment, and operational automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Build automated recovery mechanisms to minimise manual intervention.
• Champion engineering best practices across operational and development teams.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance analysis, and workload forecasting to ensure services can meet current and future demand.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, infrastructure, databases, and integrations.
• Partner with development teams to improve deployment reliability, release automation, and operational supportability.
• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Product, and Operations teams to improve service outcomes.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Linux

Windows

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

SQL/NoSQL databases

PostgreSQL

Kafka

APIs

RCA

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ASX in Australia seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, observability and resilience of critical platforms through proactive monitoring, automation, incident management, capacity planning and continuous service improvement.

You will design and maintain monitoring, logging and alerting, develop dashboards and health metrics, drive improvements to reduce disruptions, conduct RCA and post-incident reviews, support 24x7 production environments