Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | .NET | Observability

Are you a mid-level SRE ready to step up into a senior role?

What's on offer
12 month fixed term contract, with a real chance of extension or perm for the right person
Sydney CBD office, 5 days a week. This is firm
Two conversational interview rounds, no take-home
On-call paid extra and not expected from day one

Join an established enterprise in the finance space as their first official Site Reliability Engineer.

Not the first in a team. The first, full stop.

This is a new capability for the business and a pivotal role in a major client platform integration project. The first job is helping the engineering squads scale the platform for it. After that, you lay out what SRE looks like across the business.

You will sit in an enablement team, not ops. Very little BAU.

The job is helping engineering and operational squads build and run more reliable systems.

What we're looking for
Software engineering background. .NET ideal, otherwise Go, TypeScript or Python at a real dev level. Not just scripting
SRE,



DevOps or platform experience in an enterprise workplace
Transparent communicator who can influence engineers and be influenced back

What you'll be doing:
Establishing SLIs, SLOs and error budgets from scratch
Observability: instrumenting the platform and helping teams actually use it
Pragmatic automation to reduce toil
Incident response and blameless post-incident reviews
Working directly with an enterprise client, so very robust communication skills are essential

Tech environment:
Predominantly .NET / Windows
Some AWS, mostly on-prem. No Kubernetes needed
Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana or similar. OpenTelemetry a bonus

On experience level:

It's a senior role, but the hiring manager isn't hung up on years of experience.

If you've been a mid for a while and doing senior work without the title, this is your shot.

Attitude, aptitude and breadth beat the number of years on your CV here.

Apply with your CV or contact Tom Wood at Novus Recruitment Solutions for a confidential chat.

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer Net Sydney (Australia)
🏢 Novus Recruitment Solutions
📍 Australia