Senior Site Reliability Engineer - 12 months maximum term contract role
CMC Markets2 months 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
About CMC Markets
CMC Markets builds online trading and investing platforms for retail and institutional clients, covering CFDs, forex, indices, commodities and share trading, plus Australian stockbroking. The London‑headquartered company, founded in 1989, is publicly listed on the London Stock Exchange and included in the FTSE 250. Revenue comes from spreads, commissions and financing, and offerings span retail platforms (CMC Markets/Invest) and institutional liquidity and APIs (CMC Connect).