Senior Data Engineer – Databricks on AWS (BAU & ITIL)

Silverlink Technologies; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Silverlink Technologies is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with strong Databricks and AWS expertise to design, develop, optimize, and support enterprise-grade data pipelines. The role emphasizes production BAU operations, data quality, and compliance with ITIL/ITSM practices.

You'll monitor pipelines, resolve incidents, and ensure SLAs across cloud-based data platforms. Experience with DABs, dbt, Terraform, and Kafka is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Data BAU operations and data freshness monitoring.
• Experience with ITIL and ITSM processes including incident, problem, change, and release management.
• Experience with ServiceNow or Jira Service Management for SLA tracking and RCA documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, optimize, and support enterprise-grade data engineering solutions.
• Maintain production data platforms and monitor pipelines for quality and SLAs.
• Resolve production incidents and ensure data quality across systems.
• Collaborate on cloud-based data platforms using Databricks and AWS.
• Implement automated CI/CD and IaC for data workflows.

Skills

Data BAU operations

ITIL/ITSM

Databricks

AWS

Spark tuning

DABs (Databricks Asset Bundles)

dbt

Kafka streaming

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Unix/Linux scripting

Tools

AWS S3

Databricks

Delta Live Tables

Unity Catalog

Liquid Clustering

Z‑Ordering

Spark optimization

Terraform

GitLab

dbt Core/Cloud

Kafka

Job description

Silverlink Technologies is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with strong Databricks and AWS expertise to design, develop, optimize, and support enterprise-grade data pipelines. The role emphasizes production BAU operations, data quality, and compliance with ITIL/ITSM practices.

You'll monitor pipelines, resolve incidents, and ensure SLAs across cloud-based data platforms. Experience with DABs, dbt, Terraform, and Kafka is highly valued.