Senior Hybrid Infra Engineer – DevOps & AI-Ready

AustLII Foundation Limited; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AustLII Foundation Limited is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support resilient hybrid infrastructure, including Linux servers, virtualization, storage and networking. You will collaborate with Data & Content and Software Engineering teams to drive DevOps practices, automation and secure operations for AI-enabled services.

The role focuses on implementing CI/CD workflows, infrastructure as code, and standardising environments across development, testing, and production, with strong

Qualifications

• 1. A degree in systems engineering, computer science, information technology or related discipline, with relevant practical experience; or equivalent.
• 2. Linux server administration and on-premises infrastructure experience including virtualization, networking, storage, monitoring, backup and recovery.
• 3. Experience operating secure, reliable hybrid infrastructure (on‑premises + cloud) for AI-enabled systems.
• 4. Experience applying DevOps practices: CI/CD, IaC, configuration management, automated provisioning, version control, containers, repeatable deployments.
• 5. Strong infrastructure security and production operations knowledge: access management, patching, logging, disaster recovery.
• 6. Ability to maintain availability, performance, reliability through monitoring, incident response, RCAs and continuous improvement.
• 7. Analytical problem-solving, ability to diagnose complex infra issues with limited supervision.
• 8. Ability to collaborate across infra, software eng and data teams; translate requirements into solutions.
• 9. Ability to document technical procedures, runbooks and architecture notes.
• 10. Ability to manage competing priorities and provide practical end-user support.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical support for resilient hybrid infrastructure environments (Linux servers, virtualization, storage, networking).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD workflows and infrastructure as code; standardise dev/test/prod environments.
• Contribute to security, monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery planning and business continuity.

Skills

Linux administration

On-prem infrastructure

Hybrid/cloud environments

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Configuration management

Automation

Security operations

Documentation

Job description

AustLII Foundation Limited is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support resilient hybrid infrastructure, including Linux servers, virtualization, storage and networking. You will collaborate with Data & Content and Software Engineering teams to drive DevOps practices, automation and secure operations for AI-enabled services.

The role focuses on implementing CI/CD workflows, infrastructure as code, and standardising environments across development, testing, and production, with strong