Senior AI Platform Engineer — Self-Serve, Cloud Native

Qantas; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel benefits

Hybrid work model

Travel discounts

Job summary

Qantas is seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer to design and own the AI platform used across the Group. You will treat the platform as a product, enable self-service onboarding, and ensure guardrails and cost transparency.

The role requires hands-on coding, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines on AWS SageMaker and Bedrock. You will mentor engineers, establish patterns and templates, and collaborate with a small squad led by a Product Owner.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating scalable data/AI platforms in large enterprises.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, data science or related field.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design of the AI platform and set engineering standards.
• Write production code and build infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Operationalise the AI platform on AWS SageMaker and Bedrock with a focus on security and governance.
• Mentor engineers and uplift team capability within a cross-functional squad.

Skills

Cloud native engineering

AWS SageMaker

Bedrock

CI/CD pipelines

MLOps

Platform as a product

Security & governance

Mentoring

Communication skills

Architectural design

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/SE/DS

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

SageMaker

Bedrock

S3/IAM

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Qantas is seeking a Principal AI Platform Engineer to design and own the AI platform used across the Group. You will treat the platform as a product, enable self-service onboarding, and ensure guardrails and cost transparency.

The role requires hands-on coding, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines on AWS SageMaker and Bedrock. You will mentor engineers, establish patterns and templates, and collaborate with a small squad led by a Product Owner.