Site and Reliability Engineer

At Iress, we make things happen

We believe technology should help people perform better every day. Since our beginning in 1993, people across financial services have trusted us to take their performance to the next level. More than 10,000 businesses and 500,000 people use our software, from the world’s most iconic financial services brands to advice firms of all sizes, banks, insurers, investment managers, traders and brokers. Iress is one of Australia’s largest technology companies and employs more than 1,100 people across Australia, The United Kingdom, Africa, Canada, New Zealand and Asia.

Build your career at Iress! 

With a global footprint spanning Asia Pacific, the UK, North America and Africa, our teams work on complex, mission critical platforms that power financial services for thousands of businesses worldwide.

As a Site and Reliability Engineer, you’ll be part of a global product engineering ecosystem, working closely with engineering and operational teams to ensure our platforms are reliable, secure, scalable and well-supported for our GTMD customers.

Some of the amazing things you’ll be involved in

• Supporting and operating mission-critical production systems for GTMD platforms

• Working as part of an end-to-end product engineering team across development and operations

• Monitoring systems, responding to incidents and contributing to service reliability improvements

• Supporting and improving observability across metrics, logs and distributed tracing

• Contributing to highly available, resilient architectures across AWS and hybrid environments

• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling

• Reducing operational effort through smart automation and reliability-focused engineering

• Supporting production releases and ensuring changes are safely migrated to live environments

• Participating in an on-call rotation, including after-hours support when required

• Continuously finding better ways to improve reliability, scalability and supportability

What you will bring

• Experience providing production support for mission-critical applications

• Hands on experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and hybrid infrastructure environments

• Exposure to containerised platforms and services such as Kubernetes, ECS, Kafka and Elasticache

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Buildkite, Jenkins, TeamCity or GitHub Actions

• Engineering or scripting experience (e.g. Bash, Python, C#, Kotlin)

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

• Working knowledge of databases such as Postgres or SQL Server

• A security first mindset across systems, networks and applications

• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

• Curiosity and interest in modern engineering practices, automation and reliability engineering

• Willingness to learn and leverage modern tools, including Generative AI and code assistants, within governance and security boundaries

Why work with us?

• 8 additional paid days per year to extend your weekends

• Hybrid working

• Generous cash bonus for every successful referral

• Starting school leave - 8.5 days of leave to assist your children with the transition to school

• Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary carers (up to 4 weeks for secondary carers), and the ability to work part-time when returning to work

• 3 days’ paid leave per year to participate in charity initiatives

• Discounted health insurance premiums

• Access to learning and development programs through LinkedIn Learning

Iress is committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive culture. We strongly believe that diversity is what makes our teams and our products succeed. Our people have different experiences, skills, perspectives and beliefs and everyone’s uniqueness is valued and celebrated.

Our hiring decisions are never based on sexual orientation, race, gender identity, religion, disability, citizenship, marital or family status and age. Even if you feel you don’t meet all of the requirements of the role, we would still like to hear from you!

We’re also proud to be globally recognised as a WORK180 Endorsed Employer that promotes and supports all women in the workplace.

For more information about what we do, our people and values, please visit our website - https://www.iress.com/join-us/careers/

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