Meet: StreamShark Founded: 2011Location: Melbourne CBDWork Style: 3 days per week in officeProduct: Enterprise Video Platform Current Tech Stack Core Infrastructure: 100 Ubuntu LTS VMs running Wowza streaming engine, Google Cloud Platform (primary) AWS (secondary), Ansible for configuration management, Terraform for IaC.Monitoring & Operations: New Relic for application monitoring, OpsGenie for alerting and incident management, Pingdom for uptime monitoring, Custom dashboards and reporting tools.Video & CDN Technologies: Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) with origin shields, Load balancing and caching optimisation, Video encoding and streaming protocols, AI-powered video processing features. The Story StreamShark is an enterprise-grade video streaming platform and CDN that powers secure, mission-critical live streams for some of the world's most recognisable companies. They handle everything from confidential executive communications at major tech companies to large-scale public events.Their platform combines live streaming, video-on-demand, AI-powered features (automated captions, translations, summaries), and cutting-edge VR/AR content delivery. As they celebrate their upcoming anniversary in September, they’re positioned for significant growth. This is the time to join. The Role As the SRE, you'll take ownership of infrastructure that serves global enterprise customers 24/7. You'll be working on systems that power high-stakes live events for Fortune 500 companies, where failure isn't an option. You'll manage approximately 100 virtual machines running Ubuntu Linux environments, primarily hosting Wowza streaming engine software that forms the core of their live video delivery platform. Every improvement you make will have a direct, measurable impact on their business and customer experience. You will be working closely with senior development staff to understand and continuously improve the infrastructure environment. As a small team, StreamShark offers exposure to many interesting problems that would benefit from automation. What You'll Own Infrastructure Management & ModernisationRelease Management & CI/CD24/7 Operations & Event ScalingMonitoring & VisibilityCollaboration & Growth What You Bring To The Role 3 years of Linux system administration (They use Ubuntu, but not mandatory)Experience with a modern version control system such as Git, and building/packaging/shipping software under UNIX-like operating systems.Cloud platform experience (GCP or AWS)Cost optimisation and capacity planning experienceAnsible experience (significant advantage)Strong networking knowledge and ideally familiarity with CDNs and content delivery/caching conceptsExperience with 24/7 operations and on-call responsibilities Why StreamShark? At StreamShark, you’ll be an integral part of a passionate and agile team where your contributions directly shape the future of their cutting-edge video streaming platform. They champion an environment where you gain broad, hands-on experience across diverse technological domains. Your work will have a visible and immediate impact on their product and its success with global enterprises. They thrive on innovation and are committed to exploring the forefront of video technology. You’ll have the chance to experiment with and implement the latest advancements, especially in live streaming, video encoding, content delivery, and immersive AR/VR experiences.Collaboration and mutual support are the cornerstones of their team. They foster a dynamic and inclusive atmosphere where knowledge-sharing is encouraged, and every voice is valued. Great things about their culture and more for us to talk about: A business that offers and embraces work-life balanceLearning and development are encouraged and supportedCareer growth is on offer, with examples of this in the teamGlobal impact, where you will be working with clients worldwide Ready to Engineer Reliability at a Global Scale? If you're passionate about observability, automation, and building resilient systems that power real-time video for millions of viewers worldwide, we want to talk. Help StreamShark maintain the infrastructure that keeps major global events streaming smoothly across the planet.
