Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 12 months maximum term contract role
CMC Markets22 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Establish, maintain, and report on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Improve observability through metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, actionable signals, and OpenTelemetry adoption.
- Lead incident response, triage, stakeholder communications, blameless post-incident reviews, and root cause analysis.
- Reduce operational toil through automation, self-service capabilities, safe deployments, automated recovery, and reusable tooling.
- Partner with engineering teams on reliability-focused architecture, release safety, operational readiness, and change risk management.
- Improve performance, scalability, resilience, and capacity management across production services.
- Build and maintain runbooks, playbooks, operational documentation, dashboards, templates, and internal services.
- Improve the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale .NET and TypeScript applications.
- Design and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform and related tooling.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
- Act as the subject matter expert for reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Participate in an on-call rotation if required.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or a similar field.
- Senior-level experience supporting production systems in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
- Proven experience implementing OpenTelemetry and designing observability using metrics, logs, traces, and correlation.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Application Insights.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a calm, methodical approach to incidents, root cause analysis, and production issues.
- Ability to influence system design, deployment, and operational practices at scale while providing technical guidance and leadership.
- Proficiency in TypeScript is desirable.
- Experience with AWS is desirable.
- Financial-industry experience is desirable.
- Strong enterprise-grade experience with C# and .NET, including ASP.NET and .NET Core, is desirable.
- Australian working rights are essential.
Benefits
- Maximum 12-month term contract role.
- Five days per week in the office.
- Birthday leave and one paid annual charity day.
- Staff and family CMC Markets Invest trading accounts with $0 trades for domestic and international equity orders.
- Technical and performance training through the learning and development program.
- Access to a benefits and wellbeing hub with retailer discounts and wellbeing resources.
- Free breakfast cereals, condiments, and coffee in the office.
- Culture club activities including fitness, pizza-making classes, social events, trivia, and lawn bowls.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability