- Start date planned for early 2027
- Hybrid role
- 11 month contract

The purpose of this role is to own and continuously improve the Platform Availability & Resiliency team's practices across Data Centre Management, Observability, Resiliency, and Configuration Management. Lead and coach PAR Engineers, drive strategic planning, and ensure platforms remain highly available, well-monitored, and able to recover quickly from disruption.

Duties of the role:

- Own the standards, procedures, and continuous improvement roadmap for the team's Observability, Resiliency, Configuration Management and Datacentre Management.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring to Platform Availability & Resiliency Engineers, supporting their development.
- Contribute to strategic and capacity planning, including technology roadmaps and risk mitigation strategies.
- Act as escalation point for complex incidents and lead post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.
- Establish and govern a unified observability, alerting, and event management framework, with standard service levels for consuming teams.
- Maintain a standard dashboard framework (templates, golden signals) for real-time visibility of services and underlying infrastructure.
- Lead and coordinate Disaster Recovery initiatives assigned to the Platform Availability & Resiliency Team across hosting platforms and services.
- Establish and chair the Resiliency Steering Committee. Bring stakeholders together across Product & Technology to govern resiliency priorities and investment.
- Own the Configuration Management practice,



including the CMDB and discovery tools (e.g. Device42), and lead administration and vendor engagement.

Skills and experience:

- Demonstrated experience owning and leading one or more of: observability/monitoring platforms, resiliency and disaster recovery, discovery and configuration management (CMDB), or data centre operations
- Considerable knowledge of industry-standard practices across data centre management, observability tooling, and disaster recovery/resiliency frameworks.
- Demonstrated experience leading, coaching, or mentoring engineers, and supervising contractors, vendors, and partners, including reporting on performance.
- Experience contributing to or leading strategic and capacity planning, including building frameworks or roadmaps for a technology practice.
- Organisational and leadership skills, with a proven ability to operate under minimal supervision and set standards others work to.
- Robust communication and stakeholder management skills, including producing technical documentation and presenting to governance forums (e.g. a steering committee).
- Demonstrated experience with at least two of the following: Dynatrace, UIM, PagerDuty, Grafana, ServiceNow, Device42, Ansible, or equivalent observability/CMDB/automation tooling.
- An understanding of Disaster Recovery readiness, resiliency testing, and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO).

Interested candidates that meet the required skillset of the role are encouraged to apply via the link with an updated resume. Reference DEPA 114749

📌 Senior Platform Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Data#3
📍 Sydney