Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer – Data Infrastructure

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Sydney | Quantitative Trading | Linux, Kafka, Python

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We are working with a leading global quantitative trading firm that is growing its Data Engineering team in Sydney.

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This is an SRE role focused on the infrastructure that powers large-scale data platforms. You will help operate a multi-petabyte workplace supporting millions of queries each day, working across Linux, distributed data systems, automation and production reliability.

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This is not a traditional data engineering role focused on writing pipelines, DAGs or analytics workloads. The team owns and operates the underlying platforms themselves.

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What you'll be doing

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- Operate and improve large-scale distributed data infrastructure
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- Work with technologies including Kafka, HDFS, Kubernetes and distributed query platforms
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- Own monitoring, alerting, incident response and production reliability
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- Automate infrastructure deployment, upgrades and operational processes using Python
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- Troubleshoot Linux, networking, storage and distributed systems issues
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- Improve capacity, resilience,



failure handling and deployment processes
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- Work directly with traders, researchers and developers to solve data infrastructure problems
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- Participate in an on-call rotation and engineer out recurring issues
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What we're looking for

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- Hands-on Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience
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- Experience owning production systems, including monitoring, incidents and on-call
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- Operator-side experience with at least one of Kafka, HDFS or Kubernetes
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- Python experience, ideally for infrastructure automation or operational tooling
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- An understanding of networking, storage, processes, memory and system performance
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- Experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD or configuration management
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Experience with Kafka or HDFS administration is particularly valuable, but you do not need to know the entire technology stack.

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Engineers coming from SRE, infrastructure, platform engineering, systems engineering or production engineering backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

📌 Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure (New South Wales)
🏢 Tribus
📍 New South Wales