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You’ll enjoy solving complex operational challenges with code and mentoring others on engineering best practice in a high-stakes production environment.\nWhat you’ll do\nReliability & Resilience Engineering\nDesign and automate production operational processes, including deployments, monitoring, alerting, and self-service capabilities.\nRelentlessly optimise best practice, balancing between ITIL process rigour and lean principles.\nImprove system resilience, incident recovery, observability, and performance.\nDeliver resilience and recovery testing, including chaos engineering and performance scenarios.\nBalance development speed with reliability targets through well-defined SLOs and engineering standards.\nOperational Excellence & Observability\nAnalyse metrics across OS, platform, and application layers to support tuning, fault diagnosis, audits, and capacity planning.\nOversee the SDLC for reliability-focused features, including code reviews, white-box testing, and maintaining test frameworks.\nChange & Incident Management\nParticipate in automated change delivery, including resilience testing, verification, change control, and user communication.\nEnsure operational readiness as workload and use cases scale, optimising both human and technical resources.\nLeadership & Production Ownership\nAct as Product Owner delegate and champion for production resilience and scale.\nProvide data-driven assessments and readiness reports to support program-level go/no-go decisions for major releases, migrations, and customer cutovers.\nProvide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers earlier in their career journey.\nFacilitateblameless post-mortems and drive engineering-first problem resolution.\nWhat you’ll bring\nEssential\nStrong software engineering background (Java, DevOps, platform engineering, or automation).\nProficiency with build and automation tools such asGradle, Jenkins, Ant, Python/Jython, Artifactory, Terraform, SonarQube.\nKnowledge of event-driven architectures with experience in Apache Kafka or IBM MQ.\nStrong Linux (*nix) and cloud hosting skills (AWS preferred).\nExcellent communication skills, with an ability to collaborate across engineering and business stakeholders.\nSpecialist Skills (Highly Desirable)\nPerformance Testing: Ability to measure and validate response time, throughput, and reliability under expected concurrency levels.\nResilience Engineering: Assess whether current patterns withstand unexpected scenarios and ensure services recover automatically.\nStress Testing: Identify breaking points and understand system behaviour during and after failure conditions.\n Reliability Engineering: Validate that critical operations (e.g., key rotations, scaling events) occur with zero customer impact and maintain stability under load.\nObservability: Skill in proving production reliability, resilience, and performance using metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and SLOs.\nWhy join us?\nWork on systems central to Australia’s financial ecosystem.\nInfluence engineering strategy and reliability practices.\nHigh-impact technical leadership role with strong career growth.\nCulture built around collaboration, learning, and blameless practice.\nIt’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more opportunity, more moments to make a difference and more focus on you.\nYour job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth to us, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.\nIt’s a good time to see what more you can find at NAB as a\nSenior Site Reliability EngineerA diverse and inclusive workplace works better for everyone.\nAt NAB, we’re intent on building a culture we can all be proud of. One based on trust and respect. An uplifting environment where every single one of us feels appreciated and empowered to be our true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. 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