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Hammerjack Pty Ltd

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Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer

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Summary

Operates, maintains, and continuously improves Kubernetes-based data platforms (on-prem and AWS EKS/GCP GKE) running workloads like Spark, Airflow, and Jupyter. Day to day: GitOps deployments, monitoring and observability, incident response in 24x7 rotations, and mentoring junior engineers.

Your Role

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and continuously improving the company's data platforms running on Kubernetes (On-premise and/or on AWS/GCP) - similar on the DoEKS (Data on EKS) / AIoEKS (AI on EKS) deployment frameworks

  • Deploy new releases and configuration changes through GitOps/DevOps
  • Monitor platform and service health using logs, metrics, and observability tools
  • Participate in incident response, root cause analysis and 24x7 operational rotations
  • Improve platform observability, operational tooling/automations, self-service capabilities and reliability practices to reduce recurring issues
  • Investigate & troubleshoot user concerns by either correlating them to system-related issues, breaking integrations and/or user-specific errors/misconfigurations up to recommending/executing resolutions
  • Provide technical mentorship to junior engineers
  • Advocate for platform standards, security best practices, and operational excellence

Your Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of solid experience supporting production data workloads/platforms (Spark/Airflow/Jupyter)
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience on ETL/ELT pipeline development & data transformations (Python/Java & SQL)
  • Practical proficiency in Kubernetes environments including Cloud-provider managed Kubernetes flavors (AWS-EKS/GCP-GKE)
  • Comprehensive knowledge on Linux environments, microservice architectures and service communication patterns
  • Strong troubleshooting fundamentals such as application crashes, resource contentions, service latency, and scaling behavior
  • Well-rounded competency in analyzing logs, metrics, monitoring systems, and service KPIs

Plus points if you have:

  • Exposure in other Data/AI platforms such as Flink, Trino, Druid and Ray.I
  • Hands-on experience with automation or scripting (Bash, Python)
  • Kubernetes or Data certifications (CKAD, AWS Certified Data Engineer)

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