About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the reliability, performance, and scalability of enterprise platforms. You’ll work closely with software engineering and infrastructure teams to improve automation, cloud platforms, observability, and operational excellence while mentoring other engineers and driving continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and support highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure and platforms.
• Improve system reliability through automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD best practices.
• Lead major incident response, root cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Establish and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application performance, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Lead platform modernisation, capacity planning, and disaster recovery initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering standards and best practices.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support continuous improvement across the engineering team.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong experience administering Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP.
• Strong automation and scripting skills using PowerShell, plus Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes and containerised applications.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and network security.
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with experience leading major incident investigations and root cause analysis.
• Experience working within Agile and DevOps environments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business stakeholders.

Desirable

• Relevant tertiary qualification in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or ITIL certifications.
• Experience driving platform modernisation and engineering best practices.
• Previous experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives.

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Digital Solutions Delivery Lead

Drive Digital Strategy. Lead Enterprise Transformation. Deliver Meaningful Business Outcomes.

Talent International is partnering with a large, complex organisation seeking an experienced Digital Solutions Delivery Lead to shape and deliver enterprise-wide digital initiatives that improve operational performance, customer experience, and strategic decision-making.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, business strategy, governance, and project delivery. You’ll lead the prioritisation, planning and delivery of digital initiatives while partnering with executive stakeholders to ensure technology investments deliver measurable business value.

About the Role

Reporting into a senior digital leader, you’ll be responsible for leading the organisation’s digital delivery function, driving technology-enabled transformation across business operations.

You’ll work closely with business leaders, ICT teams and external partners to identify opportunities, develop robust business cases, oversee complex delivery programs and ensure digital investments align with strategic objectives.

This role combines elements of:

• Digital Strategy
• Technology Portfolio Delivery
• Business Transformation
• ICT Governance
• Enterprise Stakeholder Management
• Commercial & Vendor Management

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and delivery of enterprise digital transformation initiatives
• Develop compelling business cases supporting technology investment decisions
• Drive continuous improvement across systems, data and digital capabilities
• Lead multiple complex ICT projects from concept through to operational handover
• Manage budgets, procurement activities and supplier relationships
• Partner with senior business stakeholders to prioritise technology initiatives
• Establish governance, reporting and performance frameworks
• Identify emerging technologies and recommend innovative business solutions
• Lead cross-functional delivery teams using Agile and Lean delivery approaches
• Manage digital risks, dependencies and organisational change initiatives

About You

You’ll be an experienced technology delivery leader who understands how to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

You’ll bring:

• Extensive experience delivering enterprise ICT or digital transformation programs
• Strong business case development and investment governance experience
• Proven success leading complex technology projects and portfolios
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills
• Experience managing vendors, commercial agreements and procurement processes
• Strong understanding of digital strategy, information systems and data governance
• Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams
• Knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies and modern project management practices
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organisational change

Desirable

• Degree in Information Technology, Business or related discipline
• Project Management certification (PRINCE2, PMP, Agile or similar)
• ITIL knowledge or certification
• Experience within government, utilities or other large complex organisations
• Change Management experience (PROSCI highly regarded)

Why Apply?

This is an opportunity to influence enterprise-wide digital strategy while leading meaningful transformation initiatives across a large and complex environment.

You’ll enjoy:

• High-impact strategic leadership role
• Large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives
• Executive stakeholder engagement
• Complex and varied technology portfolio
• Collaborative, forward-thinking environment
• Opportunity to shape future digital capability

For a confidential discussion, please contact:

Gary Murray
0437 769 041

gary.murray@talentinternational.com

Senior MuleSoft Integration Developer

9-Month Contract | Competitive Daily Rates | Hybrid Working
An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Senior MuleSoft Integration Developer to join a high-performing integration team within a leading Australian organisation. This is a 9-month contract where you’ll play a key role in supporting, enhancing and delivering enterprise integration services across a complex technology landscape.
Working alongside architects, developers and business stakeholders, you’ll be responsible for maintaining critical integration platforms while delivering new API capabilities and driving continuous improvement across the MuleSoft environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide Level 2-3 support for MuleSoft integrations, including incident management, troubleshooting and defect resolution.
• Develop, enhance and maintain APIs using MuleSoft’s API-led connectivity approach (System, Process and Experience APIs).
• Build new integration components and enhance existing services across enterprise platforms.
• Deliver data transformation, mapping and integration with Salesforce and external applications.
• Support CI/CD pipelines, deployments and release activities, including occasional after-hours releases.
• Monitor integration performance, optimise APIs and improve platform reliability.
• Configure and support Sumo Logic monitoring for MuleSoft integration services.
• Provide technical guidance on integration best practices, platform optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to prioritise integration backlogs and deliver high-quality solutions.

About You

• Strong commercial experience developing and supporting MuleSoft integrations in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in API-led connectivity, REST APIs, DataWeave and MuleSoft Anypoint Platform.
• Experience integrating Salesforce with enterprise and third-party systems.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments and release management.
• Experience with API monitoring, performance tuning and production support.
• Exposure to Sumo Logic or similar monitoring and observability platforms.
• Excellent troubleshooting, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

If you’re a seasoned MuleSoft professional looking to work on a large-scale integration environment with a collaborative team, we’d love to hear from you.

For more information contact Melissa Haddad at melissa.haddad@talentinternational.com

Talent is searching for an experienced Senior Database Administrator to join our QLD State Government client based in Brisbane CBD on a contract until 30^th Nov 2026.

// Senior Database Administrator
// Contract till Nov 2026 & $1030 daily rate!
// Exp w/Azure SQL, DevOps & Pipeline Deployment (YAML)

The role:
Specialist database administration capability is required to support the delivery of a key project and to maintain continuity of critical database services during a period of reduced internal team capacity.

The role requires experience in Azure SQL Managed Instance deployment and migration activities, implementation of database CI/CD and source control processes (including YAML-based deployment pipelines), and the provision of operational database administration services in production environments.

About the Role

• The role will support the following DBA team activities:
• Successful migration of database workloads associated with the IOMS Evolve project to Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Stabilisation and optimisation of cloud-hosted database environments following migration
• Implementation of controlled database deployment and release processes using CI/CD and source control practices, including YAML-based deployment pipelines
• Ongoing delivery of BAU database administration services to maintain system availability, performance and reliability during the project delivery period

Required Knowledge and Capabilities

• Demonstrated experience administering Microsoft SQL Server and Azure database platforms in enterprise environments
• Experience with Azure SQL Managed Instance deployments, migrations and post-migration support activities
• Strong knowledge of database backup, recovery, performance tuning, monitoring and high availability practices
• Experience implementing and supporting database CI/CD and source control processes, including YAML-based deployment pipelines
• Experience managing database schema changes and deployments across development, test and production environments
• Knowledge of database security principles and operational governance practices
• Experience supporting production systems within complex operational and project delivery environments
• Solid experience and advanced skills in supporting enterprise Microsoft SQL Server environments, including strong Transactional SQL programming and script writing
• Experience in the Microsoft Business Intelligence suite, including SSRS, SSAS and SSIS
• Demonstrated skills in database analysis, design and implementation of complex information technology systems, particularly in an applications development and database environment.

How to Apply:
To find out more, please “Apply for this job” or contact Jackson Bruce via email at jackson.bruce@talentinternational.com.
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Senior Data Engineer (Baseline Clearance Required)

Melbourne CBD (Hybrid)
Initial 3-Month Contract + 3-Month Extension
Must hold a current Baseline Security Clearance
Federal Government Opportunity
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join a Federal Government organisation’s Data Platform Operations team in Melbourne. This role offers an initial 3-month contract with a strong likelihood of extension, with significant ongoing project work in the pipeline.
You will play a key role in designing, building and supporting enterprise-scale data ingestion and ETL solutions that enable reliable, secure and efficient data movement across the organisation’s modern Azure-based data platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain data ingestion and ETL solutions supporting enterprise data platforms.
• Build, test, deploy and support scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, SQL and Python.
• Develop reusable ETL frameworks, orchestration processes and deployment methodologies.
• Collaborate with project teams, platform specialists and business stakeholders to gather requirements and deliver fit-for-purpose data integration solutions.
• Support ingestion of structured and semi-structured data while ensuring compliance with security, privacy and governance requirements.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve issues across ETL jobs, data pipelines and platform services.
• Contribute to operational excellence through scheduling, monitoring, alerting, logging and recovery processes.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks and support artefacts.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across data engineering practices, platform capabilities and operational support processes.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• Proven experience designing, developing and supporting ETL and data ingestion solutions within enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise across Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, SQL Server and associated Azure data technologies.
• Experience building and supporting production-grade data pipelines and operational support processes.
• Strong scripting and development skills using Python, SQL, PowerShell or similar technologies.
• Solid understanding of data governance, security, privacy and audit requirements.
• Experience working across the full software development lifecycle including testing, deployment and production support.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong documentation skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and fast-paced environment with multiple stakeholders.

Mandatory Requirements

• Current Baseline Security Clearance.
• Australian Citizenship.
• Ability to work from the Melbourne office as required.

What’s on Offer?

• Immediate start opportunity.
• Initial 3-month contract with a further 3-month extension available.
• High-profile Federal Government program.
• Long-term pipeline of work and future contract opportunities.
• Collaborative team environment working with modern Azure data technologies.
• Attractive daily rate

If you’re a Senior Data Engineer with strong Azure data platform experience and an active Baseline Clearance, we’d love to hear from you.
For more information, contact Melissa Haddad at melissa.haddad@talentinternational.com