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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Primary office location
Sydney
Date
16-Jun-2025
Permanent - Full time, Mid-senior
Job category
BFS - SRE
Join our world class SRE team providing services for Macquarie Banking and Financial Services. The SRE function is a highly visible force multiplier with a growth mindset, going through a period of increased investment, where you can contribute to the delivery of a highly reliable banking solution.
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 31 markets and with 56 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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Through partnering with engineering teams within Macquarie, you will help develop and drive the adoption of SRE best practices and tooling across the organisation. The role will require close engagement and collaboration with all the the engineering community as you work in an embedded SRE team to help solve the biggest challenges we face.

You will be involved in projects such as measuring, testing and improving our resilience (Chaos engineering and Reliability Patterns), our capacity to deal with increasing load (Demand forecasting and capacity planning), our ability to make changes safely (Change management and System Design) and our Observability (SLOs, Metrics, monitoring, and alerts)

What you offer

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  • Strong experience in software engineering and system design utilising Java and able to provide Root Cause Analysis and troubleshooting/debugging Java applications in production.
  • Understand the benefits and correct use of SLOs, metrics, logs and traces
  • Excellent understanding of reliability patterns (circuit breakers, rate limiting, bulk heads etc) and implementing at scale to maximise the customer experience
  • Understand the AI wave is coming, and are appropriately ready to utilise AI to improve productivity and product outcomes
  • As a technical leader you can influence others to drive change in environments, manage stakeholders and provide scalable solutions
  • Strong DevOps fundamentals with preference for Java, Golang, Microservices and other cloud technologies.
  • Experience in APM and Observability tools
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

About Banking and Financial Services

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Banking and Financial Services is our technology-driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential - whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and welcome all identities, including race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, gender (including gender identity or expression), age, sexual orientation, marital or partnership status, parental, caregiving or family status, family and domestic violence status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disability, or socio-economic background. We welcome further discussions on how you can feel included and belong at Macquarie as you progress through our recruitment process. To learn more, contact our team by clicking here.

Our aim is to provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and through working arrangements. If you require additional assistance, please let us know in the application process.

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