Site Reliability Engineer - Liquidity Platform

Macquarie Group; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave

Service bonus leave

Parental leave (primary caregiver)

Volunteer leave & donation matching

Gender affirmation leave

Wellbeing programs

Learning & development opportunities

Hybrid/work flexibility

Equipment reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie Group’s technology team is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to shape our reliability practices for a cloud-based platform supporting Commodities and Global Markets. You will improve monitoring, automation, and incident response while collaborating with engineering teams.

Experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS), AWS, Linux and Python is highly valued. We offer hybrid and flexible working options focused on delivering timely, accurate data for Treasury reporting and business

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform or software engineering.
• Strong troubleshooting across applications, infrastructure and data; ability to handle unanticipated issues.

Responsibilities

• Build and shape site reliability practices as the team’s first dedicated SRE.
• Improve reliability, monitoring and automation across a cloud-based platform.
• Collaborate with application support, platform operations and software engineering to ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Site reliability engineering

Kubernetes

AWS

Linux

Python

SQL (PostgreSQL/Aurora)

Monitoring & alerting

DevOps

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS)

Docker

AWS

Linux

PostgreSQL

Job description

Join our technology team supporting the Liquidity Platform with our Commodities and Global Markets business. Our team supports the platform that delivers capital and liquidity reporting for Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets business. We manage a business-critical service that processes trade, rates and reference data each day and provides results to Treasury systems that rely on timely and accurate information.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

In this role you will help build and shape our site reliability engineering practices as the team’s first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. You will improve reliability, monitoring and automation across a cloud-based platform, while working across application support, platform operations and software engineering to ensure the service runs smoothly and meets daily delivery deadlines. You learn fast, take ownership, and use AI tools effectively, including critically reviewing and validating their output for accuracy.

What You Offer

• Hands-on experience across Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, platform or software engineering
• Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, infrastructure and data, including problems no runbook covers
• Programming experience with Python, with an interest in automation and reliability engineering. You're comfortable picking up an unfamiliar codebase and changing it safely, with your work going through code review.
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers, ideally EKS
• Solid AWS and Linux fundamentals, with working knowledge of SQL and relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL or Aurora
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting, and clear views on what's worth measuring and alerting on in a complex platform

We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

What We Offer

Benefits

• 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 Technology

Technology enables every aspect of Macquarie, for our people, our customers and our communities. We’re a global team that is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.