Senior AI Platform Engineer (Hybrid, Enterprise)

Akkodis; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

Akkodis is partnering with a large Federal Government organisation to deliver enterprise-scale AI, ML and Generative AI initiatives across Australia. Senior AI Engineer will design, implement and optimise AI platforms on-premise, in the cloud, and in hybrid setups.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists, Architects, Cyber Security and Engineering teams, ensuring secure, scalable solutions aligned to government standards. A Baseline Clearance is required for this EL1-equivalent role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience as an AI Engineer within large enterprise environments.
• Strong experience designing and supporting AI/ML and Generative AI platforms.
• Proven experience across on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience delivering production-grade AI engineering and MLOps solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to provide technical leadership and influence strategic outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure, scalable AI/ML platforms.
• Lead implementation and optimisation of enterprise AI workloads.
• Develop reusable IaC solutions and automation capabilities.
• Design end-to-end technical solutions for greenfield and brownfield environments.
• Drive platform governance, compliance and secure-by-design practices.
• Lead solution analysis, integration, migration and deployment activities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring across teams.
• Collaborate with architecture, cyber security and data teams to establish standards.
• Create technical documentation and executive-level presentations.
• Resolve complex problems and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Act as a key technical advisor across large-scale transformation programs.

Skills

Python development

AI/ML engineering

Generative AI

LLMs & vector databases

Containers (Docker/Podman)

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD & GitOps

Governance & security

MLOps

Tools

Docker

Podman

Kubernetes

GitHub

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Akkodis is partnering with a large Federal Government organisation to deliver enterprise-scale AI, ML and Generative AI initiatives across Australia. Senior AI Engineer will design, implement and optimise AI platforms on-premise, in the cloud, and in hybrid setups.

You will collaborate with Data Scientists, Architects, Cyber Security and Engineering teams, ensuring secure, scalable solutions aligned to government standards. A Baseline Clearance is required for this EL1-equivalent role.