SRE Engineer — 4-Day Week Contract (Sydney CBD)

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

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.