Cloud ML Engineer (AWS, MLOps) — Hybrid Contract

Blackroc; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BLACKROC is partnering with a major Commonwealth government agency to recruit a Machine Learning Engineer. The role focuses on designing and automating the AWS platforms, pipelines and container environments for generative AI, RAG, ML and analytics products used across the organisation.

Hybrid work options: Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. 12-month initial contract with extension option. Australian citizens only; NV1 clearance advantageous.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying cloud solutions on AWS.
• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Containerisation with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging and observability for cloud platforms.
• Citizenship and NV1 clearance ability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting AI, ML, data science and software workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, security scanning and deployment.
• Deploy and support containerised applications on Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and observability capabilities.
• Lead troubleshooting, incident investigation and root cause analysis.
• Implement security controls, IAM, secrets management and secure deployment practices.
• Support MLOps and LLMOps capabilities for model deployment, evaluation and monitoring.
• Produce runbooks, technical documentation and reusable engineering standards.

Skills

AI/ML knowledge

Troubleshooting

Security mindset

Tools

AWS

Terraform

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

CI/CD

Monitoring

IAM/Secrets

Job description

BLACKROC is partnering with a major Commonwealth government agency to recruit a Machine Learning Engineer. The role focuses on designing and automating the AWS platforms, pipelines and container environments for generative AI, RAG, ML and analytics products used across the organisation.

Hybrid work options: Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane. 12-month initial contract with extension option. Australian citizens only; NV1 clearance advantageous.