Senior Engineer – Data and AI Platform

Jobtailor; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Melbourne seeks an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to design, build and evolve infrastructure, automation and platform services underpinning our data and AI ecosystem. You will create self-service capabilities for product and engineering teams, improve reliability, monitoring and observability across platforms, and embed security, quality and resilience into systems.

Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to solve complex challenges, mentor teammates, and raise engineering

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and operational excellence.
• Experience designing secure, scalable and reliable systems.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and disciplines.
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer is relevant.
• Legally entitled to work in Australia.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and evolve infrastructure, automation and platform services underpinning the data and AI ecosystem.
• Build and automate cloud platform infrastructure using modern engineering practices.
• Create self-service capabilities for product and engineering teams.
• Improve reliability, monitoring and observability across platforms.
• Embed security, quality and resilience into systems.
• Partner with engineers, architects and stakeholders to solve complex challenges.
• Share knowledge, mentor others and raise engineering standards across the organisation.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

Platform Engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CI/CD Automation

Monitoring

Observability

Security

Resilience

Operational Excellence

Collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Job description

• Design, build and evolve infrastructure, automation and platform services underpinning the data and AI ecosystem
• Build and automate cloud platform infrastructure using modern engineering practices
• Create self-service capabilities for product and engineering teams
• Improve reliability, monitoring and observability across platforms
• Embed security, quality and resilience into systems
• Partner with engineers, architects and stakeholders to solve complex challenges
• Share knowledge, mentor others and raise engineering standards across the organisation

Requirements

• Experience with cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation
• Experience with monitoring, observability and operational excellence
• Experience designing secure, scalable and reliable systems
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and disciplines
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer is relevant
• Legally entitled to work in Australia

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CI/CD automation, and building secure, scalable systems. Proven ability to collaborate across teams while enhancing engineering standards and operational excellence.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• CI/CD Automation
• Monitoring and Observability
• DevOps Engineering

Hard Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure
• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Automation
• Monitoring
• Observability
• Secure Systems Design
• Operational Excellence

Soft Skills

• Collaboration
• Mentoring
• Problem-Solving

Industry Keywords

• Data Ecosystem
• AI Ecosystem
• Engineering Standards
• Reliability
• Resilience