Site Reliability Lead Engineer

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Site Reliability Lead Engineer in Sydney, NSW, Australia. This hands-on engineering position focuses on AI driven performance testing and intelligent automation at a platform level, with a strong focus on building automation first capabilities, reducing manual effort, and driving predictive reliability.

Requirements

• Strong experience in performance testing tools (e.g. JMeter, Gatling, k6, LoadRunner)
• Proven expertise in automation frameworks and scripting (Python, Java, or similar)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure automation
• Solid understanding of SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and reliability engineering practices
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools (e.g. Splunk, Elastic Observability)
• Exposure to AI-enabled testing, AIOps, or intelligent automation tools
• Experience in banking or regulated environments, exposure to enterprise platforms (Oracle/Siebel), knowledge of resilience practices, and an interest in AI adoption would be considered advantageous

Benefits

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands
• Flexible work arrangements
• Tailored learning and development opportunities
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives
• Generous employee-only mortgage rates
• Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave