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REA Group Lead Systems Engineer in Richmond, Australia
Experience Hybrid working arrangements in a flexible environment – ex: Work from the office or home in a rhythm that suits you
Join a fast-growing team within REA!
Sustainability - We are certified carbon neutral and committed to reducing our impact on the environment.
We're REA
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 Enterprise Tech (ETech) team is responsible for providing the technology and data platforms underpinning REA's products, services, and operations. The team consists of around 160 people, which are distributed across the SPACE, Enterprise Technology and Data Services teams.
ETech is responsible for making all REA employees happy and productive by empowering them with technology. We also play an integral role providing strategic, commercial input and guidance around decisions across all levels of the business, while continually improving the ‘behind the scenes’ of REA to support our people, as well as providing support to all other functional areas of the business around the globe.
What The Role Is All About
As a Lead Systems Engineer you will be responsible for designing, improving, and maintaining our Enterprise Systems. 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 be expected to implement sustainable solutions in a collaborative and creative work environment to support our many lines of business. You will use your skills and experience to mentor other systems engineers. You will be responsible for:
Driving engineering excellence in the implementation of infrastructure, operations, networking, operating systems, computing, and storage initiatives
Play a lead role, guiding and mentoring our Engineers through the development of their capabilities and growing their careers
People management to several Systems Engineers, including regular performance feedback/EoY reviews with a passion to see your team grow and develop
Engage with the wider System Engineering/Architecture community on behalf of ETech, identifying opportunities for tooling/pattern reuse
Contribute to our future of Tech strategy with the Enterprise Architect and the ETech Leadership team and assist in determining future skill and capability requirements to support our strategy
Provide technical direction for the tribe and guide team decisions
Identify improvement opportunities within the Engineering team and the wider ETech tribe – this may include (but not limited to) reduction of the cost of ownership of our systems, identification of system duplication and overall process improvement
In conjunction with other senior team members, architecting well-structured and documented vendor and system integrations between our systems
Work with the ETech Leadership team to continuously improve ways of working and contribute to team and tribe culture
Take regular scheduled shifts on-call to support key services outside business hours
Contributing to the REA knowledge base through blog posts, brown-bags sessions and coaching less experienced members of the team
What We Are Looking For
A love for sharing knowledge and helping others
Experience leading teams of system engineers with direct people management accountability
The ability to solve complex problems, tinker with technology and possess a continuous improvement mindset
Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with business stakeholders
Ability to lead with influence and engage a diverse set of team members to reach a common solution
Networking and infrastructure experience on distributed routing, switching, firewall and wireless systems (Palo Alto, Arista, NetApp & VMware)
Monitor, maintain and uplift a variety of systems using best practice (security, testing and automation)
Experience in securely deploying systems (Windows/Linux) to AWS infrastructure from CI/CD pipelines
Strong experience with administrating and integrating a variety of SaaS based systems such as: Microsoft 365, Okta, Zoom, PagerDuty, Workday and Slack in a corporate environment
Experience with configuration management, infrastructure automation and tooling
Security knowledge and mindset
Ability to lead projects and people whilst being able to work autonomously when required
Ability to work productively in a fast paced and agile environment - #gsd (urban dictionary will help on this one!)
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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