AI Platform Systems Engineer — Safety & Tooling

IMC Trading; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading in Sydney is seeking a versatile Systems Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind our AI-powered engineering initiative. You will integrate AI SaaS offerings, run containerization and virtualization layers, and harden security for agents and internal services that interact with them.

Based in Sydney, you will partner with global AI platform teams, support development teams daily, and help ensure continuous system availability through incident response and scalable

Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience in a relevant role.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong programming experience in Python or Go; Shell scripting is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix Systems
• Hands-on experience with containerization and virtualization technologies, including Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience integrating and operating third-party SaaS solutions, both on-premises and leveraging AWS cloud services.
• Understanding of security principles and best practices, including secrets management, sandboxing, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience designing disaster recovery plans, high availability (HA) configurations, and failover strategies.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or TeamCity, including the automation of build, test, and deployment processes.
• Curiosity and eagerness to learn about AI/LLM application patterns, even if you haven't worked closely with them yet; exposure to agentic AI tools and workflows (e.g., coding agents, MCP servers) or model-serving and evaluation infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Integrate, deploy, and operate AI SaaS offerings and self-hosted AI services, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver new tools and capabilities to our tech teams.
• Design and maintain the containerization and virtualization environments in which AI agents, MCP servers, and supporting services run, ensuring they are isolated, reproducible, and scalable.
• Drive security hardening of AI agents and the internal services exposed to them: secrets management, access controls, sandboxing, network policy, and auditability of agent actions.
• Write and maintain code to extend, integrate, and automate the services we support, from API integrations to internal tooling and automation frameworks.
• Build the telemetry, monitoring, and evaluation infrastructure needed to make AI-driven workflows reliable, observable, and safe to run against production-critical systems.
• Partner with development teams to align platform capabilities with their evolving AI workflows, and act as the regional point of contact for global AI platform and infrastructure collaboration.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents swiftly, working with regional peers in a 'follow the sun' model to guarantee continuous system availability.

Skills

Python

Go

Shell scripting

Linux/Unix

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Security practices

CI/CD

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering/CS

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

TeamCity

Job description

IMC Trading in Sydney is seeking a versatile Systems Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind our AI-powered engineering initiative. You will integrate AI SaaS offerings, run containerization and virtualization layers, and harden security for agents and internal services that interact with them.

Based in Sydney, you will partner with global AI platform teams, support development teams daily, and help ensure continuous system availability through incident response and scalable