Summary
Ben Brazier is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Sydney with eight years’ experience building resilient, cloud-native platforms across finance, media, and public sector organisations. He has progressed from web production and consultancy roles into leadership positions—most recently at Civica after leading DevOps and platform teams at DataMesh Group, 86 400 and Dolby—bringing a blend of hands-on SRE practice and people leadership. Ben focuses on operational excellence, platform engineering and pragmatic automation to improve reliability at scale, and maintains a personal tech list at techlist.dev that reflects a continuous curiosity for tooling. His background in both software development and animation gives him an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective on user-focused systems and observability.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Screen and Media, Animation, Diploma of Screen and Media, Animation at Qantm College
Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Development, Bachelor of Information Technology, Software Development at University of Newcastle
High School Certificate + Higher School Certificate, High School Certificate + Higher School Certificate at Brisbane Water Secondary College
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology at University of Technology Sydney
English