Site Reliability Engineer

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Contract
  • AU$800 - AU$1000 per day

Job Description
Our client is a federal government organisation with offices throughout Australia. Due to growth, they are seeking an Site Reliability Engineer to join the team in their Richmond or Geelong office.

Opportunity

  • Market Day Rate
  • 2-year term (12 month initial term + 12 month extension)
  • Richmond or Geelong
  • Baseline clearance desirable

Key duties and responsibilities

  • Working closely with the ICT Service Reliability Technical Lead in the implementation of our Platform on monitoring, alerting, and reporting Infrastructure and applications as Code,
  • Developer Experience, and Modern Application Development
  • Participation or leading discovery sessions developing monitoring and reporting requirements for new services and applications
  • Developing and maintaining automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and recovery as well as long term architectural strategies for the monitoring tools in use.
  • Working with development teams to integrate the monitoring suite into the development release cycle (DevOps) including assisting with regression testing
  • Assisting in managing new projects relating to monitoring, reporting business intelligence, creating dashboards and alerts
  • Implementing and maintaining event monitoring solutions, including on boarding new services, in a multi-vendor environment
  • Monitoring system capacity and scalability to handle increasing workloads and developing proof of concepts and value projectsApply best practice ITIL methodology for incident management and service requests.
  • May be working as part of a team (e.g., Business Analyst, Test Analyst, MuleSoft Developers), actively participating in prioritising and tracking system improvements via monthly sprints.
  • Attend daily stand ups to review and discuss system improvements with developers and other third- party vendors.
  • Produce deliverables in accordance with project schedules.
  • Identify opportunities for process improvements, and liaise with business areas and teams to recommend enhancements.
  • Maintain documentation, processes and decisions to support knowledge transfer and future enhancements including the team’s.

About you?

  • Extensive experience with configuring and using monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace or Splunk
  • Proficiency in scripting languages such as SPL, SQL, Python, and DQL
  • Experience working with AWS cloud platform
  • Familiarity with containerization platforms Kubernetes and Docker
  • Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and networking principles.
  • Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards preferably in federal government
  • 5+ years of experience in a similar role, preferably in a large-scale environment.
  • Experience with automation and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet and knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitLab CI, Github Actions.
  • Understanding of microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
  • Experience in configuring mobile application monitoring (Dynatrace, Firebase, and Crashlytics)

Application Process
Please send your CV in confidence to samuel.beckett@talentinternational.com

Successful applicants will be required to complete a Key Selection Criteria response to be provided if shortlisted. Proof of Australian Citizenship is required along with national criminal history and federal background checks.

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