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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Central Services (P680)


Company : Civica


Location : Melbourne, Victoria


Created : 2025-08-01


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Central Services (P680)Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Central Services (P680)2 weeks ago Be among the first 25 applicantsGet AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.We''re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local to state government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we''re at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.As a company, we''re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.Why you will love this opportunity as Senior Site Reliability Engineer at CivicaAs our Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be at the heart of Civica''s SaaS transformation; owning the reliability, performance and security of the cloud platform that powers our education, health & care, and government products. You will work together with principal engineers, developers, and product teams to make roadmaps reality, driving automation and best practices through the process.Designing and implementing for scale & resilience: Architect, implement and continuously improve our existing Data Center and Cloud environments on AWS, Azure, and VMware, ensuring they meet our SLAs and adapt dynamically to demand working alongside the Platform teams providing PaaS/IaaS.Driving automation: Build and evolve infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc.) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, etc.) to ship new features safely and at speed.Defining and measuring reliability: Partner with teams to set up meaningful SLIs/SLOs, implement real-time observability (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ...) and proactively identify risks before it impacts our users.Leading incident response: Own the on-call rota, coach teams through blameless post-mortems, and embed a culture of continuous improvement so outages become learning opportunities.Mentoring & evangelism: Share your deep expertise by pairing with engineers, running brown-bag sessions on reliability best practices, and helping raise the bar across our global engineering organisation.Securing our stack: Collaborate with our Security team and include security controls into CI/CD, runtime environments and disaster-recovery plans; so, our customers and citizens are always protected.RequirementsWhat you will do to be successful in this roleDemonstrable experience in a production SRE, DevOps or infrastructure role, ideally within a SaaS or large-scale web environmentExpert in at least one public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and comfortable designing hybrid migrations from on-prem to cloudProven track record with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, AKS, OpenShift)Proven track record with virtual machine orchestration / provisioning and resiliency strategies (Kubevirt, packer, ansible, ...)Strong coding/scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash, etc.) and a passion for building reusable tested libraries and toolingDeep understanding of monitoring, logging, and tracing frameworks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/Opensearch, Jaeger, etc.)Excellent communicator who thrives in cross-functional teams, with passion for translating complex technical issues into clear, actionable plansWe really do want you to bring your whole self to work. There is no such thing as the perfect candidate, so if you think you have what it takes, but don''t necessarily meet every single point on the list below, please still get in touch. We''d love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.BenefitsWhy you''ll love working with us.We know that when our people are happy, they will work better and have greater work satisfaction. Here''s what you can expect:We''re all different - and we love this about us.We provide an inclusive, safe, and welcoming environment to all Civicans, new and old Focus on learning- there are heaps of opportunities to enable you to grow and be your best.Giving culture - we encourage you to "give back" with benefits such as our Days of Difference leave where you can volunteer for a charity of your choice.Flexible Work - Flexible work - we have the technology and tools to support you to work from home and come into our offices now and then to catch up and socialise with colleagues.Apply for this job - Become part of something special Do you see yourself in this role? If so, then we would love to hear from you.We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 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