AI-Driven SRE & Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Sky; Port Stephens Council; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free SkyTV/ NOW package

Pension up to 9%

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Discounts on Sky products

Sharesave

Sky VIP rewards

Job summary

Sky seeks an AI Specialist to design, build, and operationalise intelligent systems that enhance Site Reliability Engineering platforms and automate large-scale infrastructure operations. You will work with SRE, platform, and cloud teams to embed AI-driven decision-making, predictive analytics, and autonomous remediation into infrastructure.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency while supporting a hybrid work model with two days in the office per week at our UK

Qualifications

• Strong experience in AI engineering, particularly in operational or systems contexts.
• Practical experience of SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management).
• Strong experience of cloud platforms.
• Proficiency in Python (or similar).

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy AI-powered automation frameworks for incident response and remediation (self-healing systems).
• Automate repetitive operational workflows across compute, storage, and networking layers.
• Integrate AI capabilities into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code ecosystems.
• Build and maintain pipelines for high-volume telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces).
• Ensure data quality, labelling, and feature engineering for ML models.
• Leverage observability tools to inform AI systems.
• Define SLIs/SLOs for AI systems embedded in infrastructure workflows.
• Ensure robustness, explainability, and auditability of AI-driven decisions.
• Implement feedback loops to continuously improve model performance.
• Develop ML/AI models for anomaly detection, incident prediction, and root cause analysis across distributed systems.
• Implement intelligent alerting systems to reduce noise and improve signal fidelity.
• Build predictive reliability models (e.g., capacity forecasting, failure prediction).

Skills

AI engineering

SRE principles

Cloud platforms

Python

LLMs in ops

Job description

Sky seeks an AI Specialist to design, build, and operationalise intelligent systems that enhance Site Reliability Engineering platforms and automate large-scale infrastructure operations. You will work with SRE, platform, and cloud teams to embed AI-driven decision-making, predictive analytics, and autonomous remediation into infrastructure.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency while supporting a hybrid work model with two days in the office per week at our UK