Site Reliability Engineer

TalentWeb Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

TalentWeb Consulting seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to partner with infrastructure and development teams to strengthen reliability and observability across key services. You will implement instrumentation, tooling, alerting, and on-call routines in collaboration with the SRE Lead.

Responsibilities include incident investigations, RCA, and mentoring SRE staff, with a 4-day work week and an initial 12-month contract in Sydney CBD.

Qualifications

• Understanding of SRE principles, reliability and observability.
• Automation skills in Python/Java/Bash.
• Experience with monitoring/alerting platforms.
• Familiarity with incident/problem management and RCA.
• Knowledge of CI/CD, deployment automation.
• Distributed systems and microservices knowledge.
• Performance analysis and capacity planning basics.
• Cloud platforms or hybrid infrastructure familiarity.
• Linux/Unix admin and networking fundamentals.
• Security, risk and compliance awareness in enterprise.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and ops teams.
• 2-5 years in SRE/DevOps/infrastructure roles.
• Production systems experience; incident response.
• Exposure to software development practices and automation.
• Able to work with general guidance on moderately complex challenges.
• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to implement code changes.
• Diagnose root causes for major incidents and perform RCAs.
• Participate in on-call rotation with Production Support.
• Mentor SRE resources.

Skills

SRE principles, reliability and observ

Automation scripting (Python/Java/Bash

Monitoring and observability

Incident management & RCA

CI/CD pipelines knowledge

Distributed systems & microservices

Performance analysis & capacity

Cloud/hybrid infrastructure

Linux/Unix admin & networking

Security, risk & compliance in prod

Analytical & troubleshooting

Collaborating across teams

2-5 years in SRE/DevOps roles

Production systems support & incident

Software development practices & autom

Ability to work with guidance on tech

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Monitoring tools

Job description

• Initial 12-month contract
• Sydney CBD location
• 4-day work week

Your role

Join a world leading financial institution. You will partner with Application Development and Production Support teams to implement the measures prescribed through the collaboration of the SRE Lead. You will ensure the appropriate instrumentation, tooling, ticketing, alerting and on-call routines are in place for key services.

What you'll do

• Partner with infrastructure engineers and application teams to implement the necessary code changes.
• Diagnose root causes for major incident / problem management investigations. Identify vulnerabilities and opportunities for reliability improvement.
• Participate regularly in an on-call rotation with Production Support teammates to learn more about reliability issues affecting their portfolio.
• Mentor SRE resources.

Your Skills

• Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability, observability and operational excellence
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, Java, Bash) for automation.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting platforms).
• Familiarity with incident management, problem management, and root cause analysis processes
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment automation
• Understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and API-based architectures
• Experience with system performance analysis, capacity planning, and optimisation techniques
• Knowledge of cloud platforms and/or hybrid infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix system administration and networking fundamentals
• Understanding of security, risk, and compliance considerations within enterprise environments.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose complex issues
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams
• Typically 2-5 years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, software engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Experience supporting or maintaining production systems and services
• Experience with incident response, monitoring, or operational support functions.
• Exposure to software development practices and automation
• Ability to work with general guidance on moderately complex technical challenges.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Your working hours will be 4-days per week:Wednesday to Saturday or Sunday to Wednesday.