Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Peoplebank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Peoplebank is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise security platforms.

You will drive SRE practices, automate with IaC, develop observability, SLIs and SLOs, and lead reliability initiatives across cyber security teams. This role requires collaboration with security, platform engineering and technology teams to raise operational resilience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering within a large enterprise.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/IT or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Experience implementing SRE principles in security operations or security platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive SRE and reliability engineering across cyber security platforms to improve availability and performance.
• Automate operational processes using Infrastructure as Code and automation-first approaches.
• Develop observability, monitoring, SLIs, SLOs and actionable dashboards.
• Lead platform reliability initiatives; identify risks and improve service stability.
• Support incident analysis and post-incident reviews for preventative improvements.
• Partner with cyber security and platform teams to raise long-term maturity.

Skills

SRE principles

Python scripting

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Security platforms

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/IT or related

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Our client is looking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and help ensure the reliability, scalability, performance and operational resilience of enterprise security platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive SRE and reliability engineering practices across cyber security platforms, improving availability, resilience, scalability and performance.
• Automate operational processes and eliminate toil through engineering solutions, Infrastructure as Code and automation-first approaches.
• Develop observability, monitoring, alerting and reliability metrics, including SLIs, SLOs and actionable operational dashboards.
• Lead platform reliability and continuous improvement initiatives, identifying risks and improving operational readiness and service stability.
• Support incident analysis and post-incident reviews, driving preventative improvements and greater platform resilience.
• Partner with cyber security, platform engineering and technology teams, influencing engineering standards, operating models and long-term platform maturity.

Our client is looking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team and help ensure the reliability, scalability, performance and operational resilience of enterprise security platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive SRE and reliability engineering practices across cyber security platforms, improving availability, resilience, scalability and performance.
• Automate operational processes and eliminate toil through engineering solutions, Infrastructure as Code and automation-first approaches.
• Develop observability, monitoring, alerting and reliability metrics, including SLIs, SLOs and actionable operational dashboards.
• Lead platform reliability and continuous improvement initiatives, identifying risks and improving operational readiness and service stability.
• Support incident analysis and post-incident reviews, driving preventative improvements and greater platform resilience.
• Partner with cyber security, platform engineering and technology teams, influencing engineering standards, operating models and long-term platform maturity.

Skills & Experience Required

• 5+ years’ experience in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering within a large enterprise environment.
• A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience implementing SRE principles, particularly within security operations or security platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with SLIs, SLOs, observability, incident management and post-incident reviews.
• Strong Python scripting and automation capabilities.
• Experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Experience with CI/CD technologies and operational configuration management.
• Cloud engineering experience across at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Palo Alto Cortex XSIAM, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Tenable or equivalent enterprise security platforms preferred but not essential

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