Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Macquarie Bank Limited; Council of the City of Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services group seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in Sydney. You will partner with engineering teams to adopt best practices, improve resilience, and manage projects encompassing observability and capacity planning. Ideal candidates will possess strong software engineering skills, particularly with Java, and a robust understanding of operational reliability patterns. This role offers a hybrid working arrangement with comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Wellbeing leave day

Paid parental leave

Paid volunteer leave

Gender affirmation leave

Employee Assistance Program

Learning and development opportunities

Reimbursement for work from home equipment

Qualifications

• Strong experience in software engineering and system design utilising Java.
• Ability to provide Root Cause Analysis and troubleshooting for Java applications.
• Excellent understanding of reliability patterns and their implementation.

Responsibilities

• Help develop and drive the adoption of SRE best practices.
• Measure, test, and improve resilience through projects.
• Engage with engineering teams to solve significant challenges.

Skills

Java

Troubleshooting/debugging Java applications

SLOs, metrics, logs, and traces

Reliability patterns

Golang

Microservices

APM and Observability tools

Job description

Overview

Join our world class SRE team providing services for Macquarie Banking and Financial Services. The SRE function is a highly visible force multiplier with a growth mindset, going through a period of increased investment, where you can contribute to the delivery of a highly reliable banking solution. At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

Role

Through partnering with engineering teams within Macquarie, you will help develop and drive the adoption of SRE best practices and tooling across the organisation. The role will require close engagement and collaboration with all the engineering community as you work in an embedded SRE team to help solve the biggest challenges we face.

You will be involved in projects such as measuring, testing and improving our resilience (Chaos engineering and Reliability Patterns), our capacity to deal with increasing load (Demand forecasting and capacity planning), our ability to make changes safely (Change management and System Design) and our Observability (SLOs, Metrics, monitoring, and alerts).

What you offer

• Strong experience in software engineering and system design utilising Java and able to provide Root Cause Analysis and troubleshooting/debugging Java applications in production.
• Understand the benefits and correct use of SLOs, metrics, logs and traces
• Excellent understanding of reliability patterns (circuit breakers, rate limiting, bulk heads etc) and implementing at scale to maximise the customer experience
• Understand the AI wave is coming, and are appropriately ready to utilise AI to improve productivity and product outcomes
• As a technical leader you can influence others to drive change in environments, manage stakeholders and provide scalable solutions
• Strong DevOps fundamentals with preference for Java, Golang, Microservices and other cloud technologies.
• Experience in APM and Observability tools

What we offer

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non-primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.