Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sydney, Australia)

UST; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible/hybrid working arrangements

Health insurance

Novated Car Lease

UST Perks (Reward Gateway)

Job summary

UST in Sydney is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure health, monitoring, automation and scalable design of critical systems in production. You will respond to incidents, investigate root causes and drive permanent improvements in reliability, performance and capacity planning.

You will work with cross‑functional teams, participate in on‑call rotations, and help shape release processes, tooling and automation initiatives across cloud, on‑prem and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience as Site Reliability Engineer.
• Experience with cloud technologies, preferably GCP.
• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible).
• Strong exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Istio/Anthos.
• Proficiency with Git/Bitbucket and Linux environments.
• Knowledge of monitoring and log tooling (AppDynamics, ELK).
• Experience with Java, Python or JS, microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior engineers to build tooling and testing strategies.
• Troubleshoot production incidents in real time.
• Lead root cause investigations.
• Create centralized logging and monitoring systems.
• Identify automation opportunities and implement them.
• Participate in on-call rotation and weekend shifts.
• Code level debugging on escalated issues.
• Develop tools to automate routine jobs and support release cycles.

Skills

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Istio/Anthos

Git/Bitbucket

Linux

Java

Python

Microservices

AppDynamics

ELK Stack

PagerDuty

Jenkins

Tools

APICA

Zebra tester

Jenkins

Elastic Stack

Job description

Role Description

UST is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in Sydney, Australia.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer will play the mission-critical role of ensuring that critical systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and designed to scale. This role will be responsible for responding to production problems, investigating their causes, and engineering and advising on permanent solutions. This role requires a thoughtful problem solver with excellent communication skills. The Site Reliability engineering team is responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with senior engineering and testing team members to build tools and testing strategies for problem prevention and detection.
• Troubleshoot production incidents in real time.
• Lead root cause investigations.
• Create Centralised logging and monitoring systems.
• Create robust logging, monitoring, and ing systems.
• Proactively identify system anomalies.
• Recommend and execute testing strategies.
• Recognise automation opportunities.
• Participate in on-call rotation and be able to work on weekend during on call schedule.
• Code level debugging on issues escalated to the team.
• Develop tools to automate routine jobs through knowledge learned on the job.
• Plug into software release cycle. Work closely with developers to ensure software releases are well designed, planned, implemented, released, and monitored.
• Automate time-consuming and manual processes.

Required Skills And Experience

• 8-10 years of experience as Site Reliability Engineer.
• Experience Cloud technologies. (GCP Preferred).
• Experience with IAC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Good exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Istio (Anthos).
• Proficiency with tools like Git, Bitbucket.
• Linux operating system, testing tools and database management with MySQL.
• Experience in one or more of the following: Java, JS, Duck creek, Python, Microservices.
• Experience with Monitoring tools like AppDynamics.
• Experience with Log management and ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana).
• Experience with APICA, Zebra tester for synthetic monitoring.
• Experience with Pager Duty for ing.
• Understanding of the Application servers, Network and Databases.
• Knowledge of Jenkins or other build tools.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Someone who can handle multiple complex systems and not shy away from the challenge of improving them.
• The willingness to try new technologies and make them harmonise with existing systems to achieve better operations overall.

Desired Experience

• Experience of working in large financial services organisations.
• Excellent communication.
• Thriving as a member of a team Excelling under pressure.
• The ability to think fast A natural problem-solver.

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
• Health insurance.
• Novated Car Lease.
• Access to UST Perks (Reward Gateway), which offers discounts across major retailers.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity and Inclusion are among the founding blocks of how UST as an organisation translates its values of Humility, Humanity, and Integrity into practice.

About UST

For more than 25 years, UST has worked side by side with the world's best companies to make a real impact through digital transformation. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact-touching billions of lives in the process.

Skills

Azure DevOps, AWS, Cloud Infrastructure