Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •5+ years of experience in a similar SRE role
• •previous markets experience
• •Strong understanding of incident response, post-incident review and problem management
• •Experience with production readiness, release readiness and operational acceptance
• •Experience with capacity, performance and resilience testing
• •Strong knowledge of observability design, not only monitoring tools
• •Experience supporting high-availability, distributed, business-critical platforms
• •Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, shell scripting and scheduled automation tooling
• •Demonstrated experience supporting critical applications using AWS Cloud Architecture covering EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS
• •strong understanding of microservices, containerisation (Docker), Kubernetes administration, and CI/CD pipelines
• •Experience setting up CloudWatch alerts, supporting observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
• •Strong database operational experience across Oracle and/or Microsoft SQL Server, including SQL scripting, performance tuning, indexing, query plans and production troubleshooting
• •Strong Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting experience across cloud, container and distributed application environments
• •Excellent knowledge and technical skills on MS Windows Servers (2019-2022)
• •Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving and root cause analysis skills
• •Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• •Willingness to learn new technologies
• •self-motivation with the ability to multi-task and prioritise work with minimal supervision
• •AWS certification at Associate level or above
• •Technical experience in distributed transactions, high availability, performance-critical systems
• •Exposure to the standards, practices and procedures of the financial services industry
• •Securities industry experience such as understanding of exchange-traded futures and options, derivatives markets, and the business processes related to clearing of member trades
• •Strong networking troubleshooting across DNS, TLS, load balancers, firewalls and TCP/IP
• •24 x 7 on-call support (rostered)
• •weekend/after-hour installations and upgrades
• •incident, problem, release and change management
• •BAU work within the team
• •legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions

Desired Qualifications

• •reducing operational toil through automation
• •improving observability across logs, metrics and traces
• •supporting production readiness and non-functional testing
• •driving resilience, capacity, incident learning and continuous reliability improvement across market-critical services
• •reliability-first mindset to market-critical systems where availability, integrity, recoverability and controlled change are essential to maintaining confidence in ASX services
• •Design and Implement: CI/CD pipeline, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development and maintenance and automate operational tasks, deployments, and service recovery processes
• •Contribute to production readiness assessments by reviewing observability, supportability, resilience, capacity, recovery procedures and operational documentation before release
• •Support capacity planning and performance engineering by analysing utilisation trends, saturation signals, workload patterns and scalability risks across critical services
• •Strengthen service resilience through failover validation, recovery testing, fault-tolerance reviews and participation in disaster recovery or operational resilience exercises
• •Lead or contribute to post-incident reviews, identifying systemic causes, corrective actions and reliability improvements that reduce recurrence and improve recovery outcomes
• •Design observability practices across logs, metrics and traces, ensuring alerts are actionable, dashboards reflect service health, and monitoring aligns to SLOs and operational risk