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 [email protected]

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.