At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a hands-on team ensuring global platforms run smoothly and efficiently.
- Company: Leading music organisation with a vibrant culture and innovative projects.
- Benefits: Attractive salary, superannuation, annual bonus, and flexible work arrangements.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with global career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make an impact in the music industry while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in systems administration and proficiency in programming languages.
The predicted salary is between 148500 - 181500 $ per year.
Location: Sydney (4 days in office, 1-day WFH & half day – 1pm finish)
Reports to: Technical Operations Director, APAC
Department: Global Technical Operations
Salary: $165,000 + super + annual bonus
The Opportunity: A leading music organisation is now growing their Global Technical Operations hub in Sydney and looking for a Service Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team. This is more than a traditional ops role – it’s an opportunity to bring a software engineering mindset to reliability, automation, and scalability in a global, high-impact environment.
What You’ll Do:
- You’ll join a collaborative, hands-on team responsible for the stability, performance, and scalability of global platforms.
- Working closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams, you’ll help build a resilient environment that keeps music flowing – from studio tools to streaming systems.
- Design and maintain high-availability, high-performance systems for global applications.
- Automate everything – from infrastructure provisioning to deployment and scaling – using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Python.
- Build robust monitoring and observability frameworks with AWS CloudWatch, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
- Optimize CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and deployment speed.
- Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot incidents, and lead post-incident reviews.
- Champion SRE principles – embed SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets into everyday engineering.
- Collaborate across Dev, Infra, and Security teams to create a culture of continuous improvement and reliability.
About You:
- You’re a technically strong and level-headed engineer who loves automation, thrives in complex environments, and knows how to balance pragmatism with perfection.
- Background in systems administration (Linux/Windows) in a large-scale environment.
- Proficient in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Java).
- Hands-on experience with AWS (GCP or Azure a bonus).
- Deep understanding of networking, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Calm, collaborative communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Bonus Points For:
- Experience with ServiceNow or ITIL processes.
- Knowledge of chaos engineering, resilience testing, or advanced capacity planning.
- Previous experience managing distributed, global systems in production.
Global collaboration and career growth opportunities.
System Reliability Engineer in Sydney employer: Talent International
At Talent International, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer within the higher education sector, offering a dynamic work environment that fosters critical thinking and innovation. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through our supportive culture, where you will have the opportunity to engage with diverse stakeholders and tackle complex business challenges. With a focus on collaboration and professional development, we ensure that our team members are equipped to thrive in their roles while making a meaningful impact in the education landscape.
