Site Reliability Engineer

Peoplebank is recruiting for a 6 month intial contract with one of our large Australian clients. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a diverse organisation. There will be some on call aspects for this role with overtime paid.(Overtime can be done WFH) A Site Reliability DevOps Engineer contributing to a high-performing Operations (SRE) team, actively developing their expertise and skillset. This role focuses on maintaining business-critical applications and infrastructure while identifying and implementing technical and process enhancements. Working collaboratively with various teams and stakeholders, the engineer will drive the development and maintenance of cutting-edge, world-class solutions.

What the ideal candidate looks like:

• Proficient in working with and supporting high-traffic, high-transaction web applications.
• Skilled in managing infrastructure platforms such as CloudFront, WAF, load balancers, proxies, DNS, and automating provisioning and deployments.
• Experienced in utilizing Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Proven expertise in performing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles, supporting applications with significant operational, performance, security, and availability requirements.
• Proficient in developing dashboards using tools such as New Relic, Grafana, Geckoboard, and similar dashboarding solutions.
• Skilled in monitoring and logging tools including New Relic, AppDynamics, Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Splunk.
• Extensive experience with AWS and other cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Azure.
• Knowledgeable in web application security practices and compliance programs like PCI-DSS and ISM.
• Proficient in administering and troubleshooting Linux distributions such as Red Hat, CentOS, or equivalent.
• Experienced in supporting API gateways such as Kong, CA API Gateway, AWS API Gateway, and Apigee.
• Skilled in working with container platforms, including Docker, Amazon ECS, and Fargate.
• Familiar with database technologies like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DynamoDB.
• Deep understanding of cloud applications, architectural patterns, and infrastructure design principles.
• Experienced with scripting languages such as Python and Node.js.

Key responsibilities include:

• Continuously refining and optimizing development and delivery practices for tools, platforms, and patterns.
• Driving technical initiatives and automations in a collaborative manner, while influencing discussions with stakeholders.
• Ensuring the availability, security, scalability, and operational readiness of cloud-based solutions.
• Promoting and embedding DevOps/SRE principles within the team and across broader delivery groups.
• Improving observability practices by advancing dashboards, toolsets, and related systems

Benefits:

• Access to our EAP program
• Based in the East - close to PTV and cose to home
• Weekly Ppay
• Dedicated contractor care team

Apply ASAP!