Platform Engineer: Telemetry & Observability for Quantum

SQC Silicon Quatum Computing; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

SQC Silicon Quatum Computing is hiring a Platform Engineer to own monitoring and telemetry across on-premise clusters, Ceph storage, and the FPGA-mesh quantum runtime. The role covers Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, and Vault integration, with a focus on actionable alerts and minimal noise.

Based at our Sydney facility, you’ll collaborate with researchers and platform engineers to drive observability that informs hardware and procurement decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform, infrastructure or site reliability engineering with observability ownership.
• Prometheus and Grafana at scale with long-term storage.
• Log pipelines in production: Loki, OpenSearch or ELK with a shipper.
• OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing in a real system.
• Alerting and on-call design with ownership of instruments.
• Production Kubernetes depth: workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, operators.
• Strong Linux systems administration with Python and Bash.
• Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps: Terraform or OpenTofu with Argo CD or Flux.
• High-cardinality time series management and cost considerations.
• Capacity planning on finite on-premise hardware.
• Clear technical writing to support researchers and engineers instrument.

Responsibilities

• Own the monitoring and telemetry platform end to end across clusters, storage, network and cloud.
• Instrument Kubernetes, Ceph, CI/CD, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory and Vault services.
• Make utilisation visible to guide scheduling and hardware purchases.
• Design alerting that triggers concrete actions and keeps noise low.
• Support quantum runtime observability, including FPGA mesh telemetry, without disturbing real-time path.
• Extend monitoring to every cluster, including air-gapped sites.
• Handle data engineering of observability at scale: cardinality, sampling, retention and cost.
• Define and measure SLAs for internal platform services and report on them.
• Build on-call tooling and runbooks, improving after incidents.
• Help teams instrument their own systems and provide libraries and conventions.
• Correlate telemetry across domains for cross-cutting research questions.
• Support incident response and post-incident review and document platform.

Skills

Observability stack ownership

Prometheus/Grafana at scale

Log pipelines (Loki/OpenSearch/ELK)

OpenTelemetry

Alerting and on-call design

Production Kubernetes depth

Linux systems administration

Python/Bash

IaC and GitOps (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ar

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Thanos/Mimir/VictoriaMetrics

Loki/OpenSearch/ELK

Vector/Fluent Bit

Terraform/OpenTofu

Argo CD/Flux

Job description

SQC Silicon Quatum Computing is hiring a Platform Engineer to own monitoring and telemetry across on-premise clusters, Ceph storage, and the FPGA-mesh quantum runtime. The role covers Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, and Vault integration, with a focus on actionable alerts and minimal noise.

Based at our Sydney facility, you’ll collaborate with researchers and platform engineers to drive observability that informs hardware and procurement decisions.