Site Reliability Engineer — Data Platform (Hands-on Infra)

Talenza; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza in Sydney, Australia seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a high‑performing Data Platform team. You will operate a large multi-petabyte data environment, focusing on Kafka, HDFS, and in-house tooling while collaborating with engineers across disciplines.

You will own incident response, automation, and capacity planning, ensuring reliable, scalable services that power trader research and decision support. This is a hands‑on role in a production environment.

Qualifications

• Around 2-3 years' experience in an SRE, platform, infrastructure, systems or production engineering role.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills across processes, filesystems, networking, disk and memory pressure.
• Hands‑on operator experience with at least one of Kafka, HDFS or Kubernetes - you have deployed, configured, upgraded, tuned or supported the platform itself.
• Experience operating self‑managed infrastructure, whether bare metal, datacentre, self‑run VMs or self‑managed Kubernetes.
• Python experience for systems automation, operational tooling, health checks or deployment workflows.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and infrastructure‑focused CI/CD.
• A curious, pragmatic mindset and a genuine interest in understanding how complex systems behave under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Run, monitor and improve large-scale data platforms including Kafka, HDFS, Dremio and internally built pipelines.
• Troubleshoot real production issues across Linux, storage, networking and distributed infrastructure.
• Build automation and CI/CD capability to make deployments faster, safer and more repeatable.
• Support upgrades, capacity planning, incident response and long-term reliability improvements.
• Work closely with systems and network engineers, developers, researchers and end users to solve complex data-platform problems.
• Help evaluate and introduce new technology as the environment continues to evolve.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Kafka

HDFS

Kubernetes

Python

Docker

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Helm

Tools

Kafka

HDFS

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

Job description

Talenza in Sydney, Australia seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a high‑performing Data Platform team. You will operate a large multi-petabyte data environment, focusing on Kafka, HDFS, and in-house tooling while collaborating with engineers across disciplines.

You will own incident response, automation, and capacity planning, ensuring reliable, scalable services that power trader research and decision support. This is a hands‑on role in a production environment.