SRE Lead: Build & Scale Observability Platform

Plan Partners; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Learning & development opportunities

Mental health and wellbeing programs

Job summary

McMillan Shakespeare Group (MMS) is looking to establish and lead Site Reliability Engineering at our organisation in Melbourne. You will shape the observability strategy, influence architecture and drive automation within Azure-based operations, while ensuring platform robustness and security across hybrid environments.

The role offers a path to strategic leadership, collaboration with Product, Engineering and Cyber Security teams, and engagement with ITSM and incident response practices.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing and operating enterprise monitoring, observability and operational platforms in complex hybrid/cloud environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, platform automation, and Microsoft Azure integrations, including logging, monitoring and alerting.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and distributed tracing using modern observability practices.
• Experience leading major incident management, root cause analysis and post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build our SRE capability from the ground up.
• Shape the enterprise observability platform strategy and technology roadmap.
• Influence architecture and engineering practices across the organisation.
• Work with Azure cloud technologies, automation and AI-enabled operations.
• Ensure Platform Robustness, Compliance & Cyber Security.
• Grow into a strategic leadership role while staying close to technology.

Skills

SRE leadership

Observability

Azure cloud

IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Incident management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology / related field

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Jira

Microsoft Teams

Azure AI Foundry / OpenAI tools

Job description

McMillan Shakespeare Group (MMS) is looking to establish and lead Site Reliability Engineering at our organisation in Melbourne. You will shape the observability strategy, influence architecture and drive automation within Azure-based operations, while ensuring platform robustness and security across hybrid environments.

The role offers a path to strategic leadership, collaboration with Product, Engineering and Cyber Security teams, and engagement with ITSM and incident response practices.