Senior Cloud AI Engineer – EL1-Equivalent (Hybrid)

Cloud Delivered PTY LTD.; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloud Delivered is seeking a senior Cloud AI Engineer for a government-aligned program, based in Melbourne or Sydney with a hybrid setup. The role is an up-to-12-month contract, onsite for the first two weeks, then flexible hybrid work.

You will design, deploy and optimize AI/ML workloads across on-prem and cloud, collaborating with Data Scientists, Cyber Security and Architecture teams. The position requires Australian citizenship and active Baseline clearance eligibility, with strong

Qualifications

• Availability Management at SFIA Level 5 including disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Capacity Management at SFIA Level 4 focusing on resource planning and design.
• IT Infrastructure expertise with provisioning, maintenance and automation.
• Problem Management at SFIA Level 4, driving remediation and prevention.
• Programming/Software Development at SFIA Level 3, coding and testing moderately complex programs.
• Systems Design at SFIA Level 5 for large, complex systems with trade-offs.
• Systems Installation and Removal at SFIA Level 5, leading installation projects.
• Security governance and DevSecOps practices, data sovereignty and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for AI/ML services.
• Lead enterprise AI solution implementation with performance and resilience.
• Drive DevSecOps and secure-by-design principles across AI platforms.
• Manage Kubernetes/OpenShift AI, LLMs, MLOps pipelines and IaC tooling.
• Act as technical anchor across multi-team delivery programmes.
• Mentor APS teams and share expertise as SME.

Skills

Availability Management

Capacity Management

IT Infrastructure

Problem Management

Programming/Software Development

Systems Design

Systems Installation and Removal

Security governance

Education

SFIA-aligned knowledge

Tools

SageMaker

Kubernetes/OpenShift AI

Terraform/Ansible

Job description

Cloud Delivered is seeking a senior Cloud AI Engineer for a government-aligned program, based in Melbourne or Sydney with a hybrid setup. The role is an up-to-12-month contract, onsite for the first two weeks, then flexible hybrid work.

You will design, deploy and optimize AI/ML workloads across on-prem and cloud, collaborating with Data Scientists, Cyber Security and Architecture teams. The position requires Australian citizenship and active Baseline clearance eligibility, with strong