Senior Systems Engineer in Sydney, Australia

REA Group (https://www.rea-group.com/about-us/about-rea-group/) is not your average digital business. From humble beginnings in a garage in Melbourne’s east in 1995, we have grown into a leading global digital business, specialising in property.

With bold and ambitious goals, we are changing the way the world experiences property. No matter where you’re at on your property journey, we’re here to help with every step – whether that’s finding or financing your next home.

Our people are the key to our success. At the heart of everything we do, is a thriving culture centred around high performance and care. We are purpose driven and collaborative, which drives innovation and our ability to make a real impact. As such, we’re proud to be named in Australia’s “Top 5” Best Workplaces two years in a row, as well as being recognised as a Best Workplace for Women.

Where the team fits in

The SPACE tribe is responsible for driving REA’s internal tooling, infrastructure, and making all delivery teams at REA more effective. We work on a wide range of technical products and solutions as required by other groups across the company, such as cloud deployment tools, CI/CD pipelines, networking, security, monitoring and deployment. We also consult to our many product delivery teams to help them bring their solutions to life.

What The Role Is All About

As a Senior Systems Engineer you will be responsible for designing, improving, and maintaining our services and products. You’ll become an integral part of an agile team, providing your expertise of systems engineering & design, operational work practices, fault finding and incident management. You will use your skills and experience to mentor junior systems engineers. You’ll also be a part of the broader operations function and have other operational experts to learn from.

You will support our products and services in the following ways:

• Help us identify common problems shared by teams across REA, and design simple solutions.

• Work with the rest of the team to continuously improve the tools and services we provide.

• Provide help and advice to users of those tools and services.

• Ensure the availability and performance of our services according to their agreed SLAs.

• Take occasional shifts on-call to support key services outside business hours.

Who We’re Looking For

• Someone with a love for sharing knowledge and helping others.

• Curiosity – an ability to tinker with technology and keep learning

• A few years of experience working with cloud services – we use Amazon Web Services, but similar experience is ok

• A few years of Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills

• An understanding of techniques to monitor complex systems

• Experience with configuration management, infrastructure automation and tooling

• An ability to work with others to reach a common solution

It’s great if you know some of these things too, but otherwise you’ll be able to learn them with us:

• Development or scripting skills (Python, Ruby, Bash, etc.)

• Experience with Docker containers and clusters

• Experience working in a development team.

• Security knowledge and mindset.

• Experience working in an agile manner in a team.

The REA Experience

The physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our people is something we’ll never stop caring about. This is a place to learn and grow. We’re committed to your development – both professionally and personally. Your experience with us is something we take seriously.

We offer:

• A hybrid and flexible approach to working

• Flexible parental leave offering for primary and secondary carers

• Programs to support mental, emotional, financial and physical health & wellbeing

• Our Because We Care program offers employees volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving and our Community Café donates 100% of revenue to charity.

• Hack Days so you can bring your big ideas to life

• Performance recognition programs because hard work should never go unnoticed

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion. We believe teams with diverse ideas and experiences are more creative, more effective and fuel disruptive thinking – be it cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender identity, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other identity or lived experience. We know diverse teams are critical to maintaining our success and driving new business opportunities. If you’ve got the skills, dedication and enthusiasm to learn but don’t necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch.

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Keen to be part of REA but didn’t find a perfect match with this opportunity? Perhaps the timing isn’t right? You should join our Talent Neighbourhood!

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