Senior Platform Availability & Resiliency Engineer
Contract:
initial 12-month
Rate:
$850 + super per day
About the Role
An established Australian organisation is looking for a senior engineer to take charge of how its technology platforms stay reliable, visible and recoverable.
This role spans monitoring and observability, disaster recovery, configuration management and physical data centre operations.
The successful candidate will set the direction for the practice, guide a team of engineers and act as the go-to expert when things go wrong.
Responsibilities
Sets the standards, processes and improvement roadmap for observability, resiliency, configuration management and data centre operations
Coaches and mentors a team of platform engineers, building their technical capability and confidence
Runs monitoring as an internal service, defining what is offered, which tools are supported and how teams get onboarded
Administers monitoring and automation tools such as Dynatrace, UIM, PagerDuty, Grafana and Ansible, feeding alerts and incidents into ServiceNow
Drives disaster recovery work across hosting platforms, including recovery planning, testing standards and recovery time and data loss targets
Forms and chairs a cross-functional resiliency committee to agree priorities and guide investment decisions
Takes ownership of the CMDB and discovery tooling, setting data quality and governance expectations and leading service mapping
Steps in as the senior point of escalation for major incidents and leads reviews afterwards to prevent repeat issues
Tracks and reports on team performance across uptime, monitoring coverage and recovery outcomes
Oversees day-to-day data centre operations for staff,



including capacity planning, vendor and contractor supervision and safety inspections
Requirements
Proven track record owning and leading monitoring and observability, disaster recovery, CMDB or data centre operations
Hands-on experience with at least two tools from Dynatrace, UIM, PagerDuty, Grafana, ServiceNow, Device42 and Ansible, or comparable alternatives
Solid grasp of disaster recovery readiness, resiliency testing and recovery objectives (RTO/RPO)
Sound knowledge of configuration management and CMDB governance
Experience leading and developing engineers, and managing vendors and contractors
Background in strategic and capacity planning, including creating frameworks or roadmaps for a technology function
Confident communicator able to write clear technical documentation and present to senior governance groups
Self-directed approach, comfortable setting standards without close supervision
Commitment to a respectful, inclusive and protected workplace
Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and people living with a disability.
The recruitment and selection process varies, and some roles may include completion of pre-employment assessments, in-person or online interviews, psychometric testing, written assessments, scenario-based tasks, presentations, and pre-employment checks such as medical (including drug and alcohol), criminal history, or financial.
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📌 Senior Platform Engineer (Sydney)
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