Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sydney, Australia)

UST Global; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Novated Car Lease

UST Perks access

Job summary

UST is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Sydney team. You will ensure critical systems are healthy, monitored, automated, and scalable, handling production incidents, root-cause analysis, and permanent improvements.

You will collaborate with development to design robust release processes, automate repetitive tasks, and contribute to on-call coverage. Hybrid work is supported, with a focus on reliability excellence.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years SRE experience driving reliability and automation.
• GCP and cloud technologies experience essential.
• Terraform/CloudFormation and Ansible for infra as code and config mgmt.
• Docker/Kubernetes experience with monitoring/logging tools.
• Ability to lead incident response and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot production incidents in real time and perform RCAs.
• Build tools and testing strategies to prevent problems.
• Automate routine jobs and integrate with release cycles.
• Lead on-call rotation and weekend coverage when needed.
• Develop centralized logging/monitoring and capacity planning.

Skills

8-10 years experience as SRE

Cloud technologies (GCP)

Automation & SRE tooling

On-call & incident response

Logging & monitoring expertise

Programming (Java/JS/Python)

Linux proficiency

Networking basics

Release coordination

Capacity planning

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

MySQL

ELK Stack

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sydney, Australia)

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.
• Thriving as a member of a team Excelling under pressure.
• The ability to think fast A natural problem-solver.
• Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.
• Health insurance.
• Novated Car Lease.
• Access to UST Perks (Reward Gateway), which offers discounts across major retailers.

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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.