Senior Specialist- Platform Sre

Have meaningful impact as a Senior Specialist- Platform SRE
Join the largest insurance group in Australia and New Zealand.YOUR ROLEAs a Senior Engineer, Platform SRE, you will help support the build and roll out of new SRE & Observability capabilities on the Platform. You will leverage cloud-based services to help support our transition to a self-service platform model.You'll work in a cross-functional agile team that consists of Platform Engineers, Technical Product Owners, Platform Architects etc.In this role some of the key responsibilities includes: -

• Contribute to the implementation of our SRE & Observability Strategy including the design, build and rollout of foundational capabilities to support the business-critical workloads for IAG's Customer Technology Division.
• Leverage your advanced cloud engineering and automation skills to deliver self-service capabilities that meet the needs of our product teams and ensuring that the platform is operationally supportable through the implementation of advanced observability, alerting and monitoring features.
• Participate in the creation and on-going maintenance of Platform Engineering rituals (including standards, processes, documentation, ways of working etc.)
• Demonstrate a strong sense of ownership, customer service, and integrity through clear communication and thoughtful actions.

This is a full time, permanent role that is open to people based anywhere in Australia and New Zealand.This role offers flexible working conditions that support a mix of working from home and being in the office.Application closes 26 April 2024ABOUT YOUWe are looking for the right person, with a good attitude who will be a solid team fit with the following skills and experiences: -

• Extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing a variety of production workloads on the public cloud through SRE and Observability principles. Ideally, you're familiar with SRE & Observability frameworks to support workloads on the public cloud for services such as Route53, ELB/ALB, EC2, ECS/Fargate, IAM, API Gateway, RDS, S3, Lambda etc. on AWS (our preference) or similar services on GCP.
• Excellent experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deep exposure to containerization and related infrastructure e.g. Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Excellent knowledge of a wide variety of operating systems (e.g. Windows, Linux) and associated programming/scripting languages such as Python, TypeScript, Java, JavaScript, Go, .NET, Bash, SQL, etc.
• Proficiency designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines at scale using tools such as Github, GitLab, BitBucket, Bamboo, ArgoCD, Ansible etc with DevSecOps best practices.
• Proficiency integrating cloud applications run stack including observability, monitoring and alerting (e.g. AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, NewRelic), open tracing and search tools (e.g. ELK, Grafana, Splunk), advanced knowledge of security tools (e.g. Orca, Prisma Cloud, Tenable) etc.
• Extensive experience participating in complex cloud engineering initiatives (spanning multiple business domains) in a business-critical environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with proven ability to engage and interact effectively with a range of business stakeholders including technical and non-technical personnel.
• Exposure to a range of contemporary engineering best practices including micro-services, serverless, zero-trust, multi-cloud, secure-by-design, continuous delivery, data engineering etc.

ABOUT USIAG is the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. We're also a tech and research facility, a hub for climate change experts and a centre of resilience design. We chat over coffee with customers, advocate for them in the corridors of Parliament and back them up in the community when life's moments hit hardest. ​​You'll know our brands - NRMA Insurance, CGU, WFI, ROLLiN', AMI, NZI, and State Insurance to name a few. Together they turn our IAG purpose of making your world safer into action by helping, supporting ambitions and making insurance accessible.​
We celebrate unique viewpoints shaped by life experiences, cultures and passions. We expand careers, genuinely connect with community, lead with a powerful purpose and celebrate what makes you individual.We're also guided by the knowledge and voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, businesses and communities. Collaborating on Indigenous-led solutions that enable growth, develop resilience and create meaningful change.We're passionate about social issues, walk the talk on sustainability and strive to do more than standard on things that matter, including women in senior leadership, Indigenous empowerment and creating inclusive environments. We're proud to be an accredited family-friendly workplace and are committed to being a safe and supportive space for all our employees. We do this because we're ready for you.All this shows up in what we offer:

• Grow your financial future with 13% superannuation as standard
• Access up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance
• Flexibility through a program called MyFlex - supporting you to live life to the full
• Welcome Back cash bonus when returning from parental leave
• Partner discounts on every day and special occasion items

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