Site Reliability Engineer, Data Platform - Scale & Tech

Talenza; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza in Sydney is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate a large-scale data platform underpinning trader research and decision-making.

You will run and improve platforms like Kafka and HDFS, troubleshoot Linux-based issues, and build automation with CI/CD to accelerate deployments. This role emphasizes hands-on infrastructure depth over managed services and offers growth in a global trading context.

Qualifications

• Approximately 2-3 years in an SRE/platform/infra/production engineering role.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting across processes, filesystems, networking, memory pressure.
• Hands-on operator experience with Kafka, HDFS or Kubernetes at platform level.
• Experience operating self-managed infrastructure (bare metal, datacentre, self-run VMs or self-managed Kubernetes).
• Python for systems automation, health checks or deployment workflows.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and infrastructure-focused CI/CD.
• Curious, pragmatic mindset with interest in how complex systems behave under pressure.
• Experience with Dremio, Presto, Airflow, Prefect, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform or cloud platforms is beneficial but non-essential.

Responsibilities

• Run, monitor and improve large-scale data platforms including Kafka, HDFS and internally built pipelines.
• Troubleshoot production issues across Linux, storage, networking and distributed infrastructure.
• Build automation and CI/CD to speed up, improve safety and repeatability of deployments.
• Support upgrades, capacity planning, incident response and long-term reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with systems and network engineers, developers, researchers and end users to solve complex data-platform problems.
• Evaluate and introduce new technology as the environment evolves.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Python automation

Docker/Kubernetes/Helm

CI/CD

Curious mindset

Tools

Kafka

HDFS

Kubernetes

Job description

Talenza in Sydney is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate a large-scale data platform underpinning trader research and decision-making.

You will run and improve platforms like Kafka and HDFS, troubleshoot Linux-based issues, and build automation with CI/CD to accelerate deployments. This role emphasizes hands-on infrastructure depth over managed services and offers growth in a global trading context.