Senior Site Reliability Engineer 18 months maximum term contract role

If you also believe that everyone should be able to achieve their financial potential then youll love contributing to CMC Markets company vision of providing the ultimate trading experience. Seize the opportunity to progress your career in the fintech industry by joining a global leader in CFD trading and share investing. Grow yourself personally and professionally with a company thats growing with you by global expansion and product offering.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at CMC Markets you will work on platforms that support millions of trading decisions. .You will play a key role in improving reliability availability and performance across large-scale systems ensuring customers can access markets when it matters most. Your work will be highly visible and meaningful giving you a strong sense of contribution and pride in what you deliver.

This role offers rich opportunities to grow your technical capability across observability automation and modern infrastructure. By working closely with development teams you will learn how to embed reliability early in the software lifecycle and reduce operational risk at scale.

Acting as a subject matter expert you will guide best practices lead post-incident reviews and help define standards that improve long-term system resilience.

Why Youll like working here

Just some of the reasons youll love working here include:

• Leave benefits: Enjoy your birthday off to spend time with family and friends on us! Utilise a free annual charity day to give back to your community.
• $0 Trades: Staff & family trading accounts with CMC Markets Invest have access to the best brokerage rates in the market - $0 trades for all domestic and international equity orders!
• Continuous learning: Our L&D offering covers both technical and performance training ensuring youre always learning new skills.
• Unlimited access to a dedicated benefits & wellbeing hub where you can save money through various retailer discounts and make use of a variety of resources that will enhance your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Collaboration: We believe that great things happen when smart people work together thats why weve made the decision to work five days in the office.
• Office perks: Help yourself to free breakfast cereals condiments and coffee to fuel your workday. Our culture club provides opportunities for everyone whether youre into fitness pizza making classes socialising or bringing out your competitive side in trivia or lawn bowls!

What youll be working on

• Improving reliability availability and performance of and TypeScript applications
• Leading the rollout and adoption of OpenTelemetry for metrics logs and distributed tracing
• Maturing our observability standards patterns and best practices across engineering teams
• Acting as an SME providing guidance and thought leadership on reliability performance and optimisation
• Building and maintaining automation for deployments monitoring and incident response
• Partnering with development teams to embed reliability best practices early in the SDLC
• Troubleshooting complex production issues across application infrastructure and network layers
• Defining and tracking SLOs SLIs and error budgets to support platform growth
• Leading post-incident reviews focused on learning prevention and long-term improvements
• Reducing toil by building tools patterns templates and best practices for development and operations teams
• Creating scalable reusable internal services leveraged by multiple teams
• Building dashboards pipelines templates and tooling aligned with industry best practice
• Designing and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) environments using Terraform and related tools
• Integrating observability capabilities across services to enable proactive monitoring and incident prevention

What will help you be successful

• Strong enterprise grade experience with C# including Core and the ability to write production-grade code that improves reliability and operability
• Senior-level experience supporting production systems in SRE DevOps or platform engineering roles
• Proven experience implementing OpenTelemetry and designing effective observability using metrics logs traces and correlation
• Experience with monitoring and alerting platforms such as Prometheus Grafana Application Insights or similar
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
• Strong problem-solving skills and a calm methodical approach to incidents root cause analysis and production issues
• Ability to influence system design deployment and operational practices at scale providing technical guidance and leadership

The things we live by

CMC Markets is powered by our people. We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where our people feel confident to be themselves feel valued and are able to do their best work. We dont just value differences and unique perspectives we seek them out and we invite them in because we know it will lead to better outcomes for everyone

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Were always on the lookout for great people so even if you dont feel you are a 100% fit apply with your up-to-date CV and well consider you for this role and any other suitable opportunities across the business.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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