About the Opportunity

An established technology driven organisation is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its high performing infrastructure team in the fintech space. Operating in a fast-paced, mission critical environment, the business relies on robust, scalable systems to support complex real time applications.

The Role

This role offers the chance to work with modern infrastructure technologies, automate operational processes, and contribute to the reliability, performance, and scalability of globally distributed systems.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in maintaining and improving critical production infrastructure. Working closely with software engineers and infrastructure specialists, you will help ensure systems remain secure, highly available, and performant while driving automation and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities include

- Developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Building and enhancing monitoring, alerting and observability platforms.
- Monitoring production environments and responding to incidents.
- Supporting Linux-based infrastructure across development and production systems.
- Administer PostgreSQL and time-series databases.
- Assist with workflow orchestration and operational automation.
- Manage enterprise virtualisation and storage platforms.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve build and deployment processes.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual tasks.
- Contribute to system reliability, capacity planning and performance optimisation.





About You

- Proactive engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and thrives in a collaborative, high performance environment.
- Strong commercial experience administering Linux environments coupled with solid scripting skills in Python and/or Bash.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible or similar technologies is essential.
- Hands-on exposure to monitoring platforms including Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk or equivalent solutions.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and other database technologies.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, routing and firewalls.
- Experience with Docker and virtualization platforms such as VMware, KVM or Proxmox.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling and programming languages including C++, Java or C# is advantageous but not essential.
- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or a related discipline is preferred.

This is an opportunity to join a highly skilled engineering team working on business critical systems using modern infrastructure and automation technologies. You'll be part of a collaborative environment that encourages innovation, continuous learning and technical excellence while offering competitive remuneration and genuine opportunities for long-term career growth.

Please Note

- To apply for this position, you need full rights to work in Australia. Our client cannot offer visa sponsorship for any of their open positions.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Site Reliability Engineer (City of Sydney)
🏢 Motion Recruitment
📍 City of Sydney