Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

 

Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Sr SRE)

Location: Sydney/Melbourne, Australia || Hybrid 

Type: Full Time ||Permanent

Get To Know Us: 

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

SS&C GIDS provides information processing and computer software services and products.  The Company’s operating segments include financial markets, customer management, professional services, and output solutions.  SS&C GIDS serves the alternative investments, asset and wealth management, banking and lending, insurance, and real estate industries. 

 

Why You Will Love It Here!  

·        Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model 

·        Your Future: Income Protection Insurance & Salary Continuance 

·        Work/Life Balance: Generous Bereavement & Compassionate leave 

·        Your Wellbeing: Private Health Insurance discount, Primary & Secondary Paid Parental leave, Death & TPD Insurance 

·        Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity 

·        Training: Hands-On, Team-Customized, including SS&C University 

·        Extra Perks: Discounts on fitness clubs, travel and more! 

What You Will Get To Do:  

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. In this role, you will be instrumental in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems and applications. You will apply software engineering principles to operations, focusing on automation, monitoring, and incident response to optimize system health and developer productivity.

·        Design, implement, and maintain robust and scalable infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code principles.

·        Develop and implement automated solutions for deployment, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

·        Proactively identify and resolve complex system issues, performance bottlenecks, and potential points of failure.

·        Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical production systems.

·        Collaborate with development teams to ensure new features and services are designed for reliability and operational excellence.

·        Implement and manage comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to gain deep insights into system behaviour.

·        Define, track, and report on key SRE metrics (SLOs, SLAs, SLIs) to drive continuous improvement.

·        Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures to minimize future occurrences.

·        Mentor junior SREs and contribute to the SRE best practices and knowledge base.

·        Evaluate and introduce new technologies and tools to enhance our SRE capabilities.

 

What You Will Bring: 

·        Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or similar role.

·        Strong proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash).

·        Extensive experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

·        Demonstrable experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

·        Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Octopus, Azure DevOps).

·        Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Site 24x7, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).

·        Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).

·        Experience with SQL and PostgreSQL databases and Managed File Transfer: GoAnywhere, SFTP server.

·        Strong understanding of operating systems (Windows server, Linux), networking, and distributed systems.

·        Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

·        Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team in a fast-paced environment.

 We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense. 

 Thank you for your interest in SS&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers

 

 

 

 

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

 

 

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.