SRE: Production Reliability & Observability Lead

ASX; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid work options

Job summary

ASX is hiring to strengthen the reliability, availability and performance of its critical market platforms. You’ll design and run monitoring, logging and observability tooling, and build dashboards to provide real-time visibility into platform health and capacity.

You’ll lead post-incident reviews and drive permanent fixes while supporting 24x7 production environments in a hybrid setup. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong scripting, containerisation, and experience with

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Production Support.
• Strong scripting experience in Python, Java or PowerShell.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Windows, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment pipelines.
• Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Grafana, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, AWS CloudWatch or similar.
• Knowledge of database technologies, including Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL or NoSQL platforms.
• Familiarity with integration technologies, including APIs, real-time messaging and streaming architectures such as Kafka.
• Non-functional test planning and execution experience.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the availability, reliability, scalability, and resilience of critical technology platforms and services.
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Develop meaningful dashboards, operational metrics, and health indicators to provide real-time visibility of platform performance.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce service disruptions and improve platform stability.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate reliability risks across production environments.
• Conduct root cause analyses (RCA) and post-incident reviews, driving permanent resolutions and preventative actions.
• Maintain operational runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures to support rapid incident resolution.
• Support 24x7 production environments and participate in on-call rotations where required.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure, deployment, and operational automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Build automated recovery mechanisms to minimise manual intervention.
• Champion engineering best practices across operational and development teams.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance analysis, and workload forecasting to ensure services can meet current and future demand.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across applications, infrastructure, databases, and integrations.
• Partner with development teams to improve deployment reliability, release automation, and operational supportability.
• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Product, and Operations teams to improve service outcomes.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Scripting: Python/Java/PowerShell

Linux/Windows networking

CI/CD tooling

Docker & Kubernetes

Observability platforms

DBs: Oracle/SQL/PostgreSQL/NoSQL

Kafka & messaging

Non-functional testing

Tools

Grafana

Splunk

ITRS Geneos

OpenTelemetry

AWS CloudWatch

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ASX is hiring to strengthen the reliability, availability and performance of its critical market platforms. You’ll design and run monitoring, logging and observability tooling, and build dashboards to provide real-time visibility into platform health and capacity.

You’ll lead post-incident reviews and drive permanent fixes while supporting 24x7 production environments in a hybrid setup. Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong scripting, containerisation, and experience with