Senior AWS Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer - Enterprise AI Platform

• Location: Canberra or Melbourne
• Contract: 12 months with 3*12 month extensions
• Must hold Baseline Security Clearance

About the Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists for a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to play a key role in the delivery and evolution of a large-scale Enterprise AI Platform.

Working within a multidisciplinary technology team, you will help design, build and operate secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform capabilities that enable the adoption of Artificial Intelligence across a complex enterprise environment. This role is ideal for a platform engineering professional who is passionate about cloud technologies, automation, security, and creating exceptional developer experiences through platform enablement.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and operating cloud platform services that support AI-enabled workloads while ensuring security, compliance, reliability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain platform services, automation, and integration components aligned with organisational strategies and architectural direction.
• Implement and maintain security controls, guardrails, and policy-as-code to ensure compliance with organisational policies and industry security frameworks.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment patterns to enable consistent and repeatable platform delivery.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and product teams to translate requirements into scalable and supportable platform solutions.
• Implement and operate cost-management controls, monitoring, and optimisation practices to support efficient cloud consumption.
• Build and maintain standardised platform patterns, reusable modules, and "golden path" solutions that accelerate onboarding and delivery team adoption.
• Support AI platform workloads through the implementation of controls and patterns relating to data security, model lifecycle management, service isolation, observability, and responsible AI practices.

About You

• Strong knowledge of cloud networking including segmentation, routing, DNS, and private connectivity.
• Expertise in identity and access management, including federation, IAM/RBAC, privileged access management, and least-privilege design principles.
• Experience implementing security services such as Key Vault, AWS KMS, encryption, secrets management, and certificate management.
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Experience implementing automated security controls, governance frameworks, and policy-as-code solutions.
• Hands-on experience supporting production cloud environments, including incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvement.
• Experience supporting AI, ML, or cloud-native data platforms.
• Exposure to MLOps or AI platform technologies.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimisation, and consumption governance.

If you wish to apply for this position, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information please contact Abhi Naik at Clicks IT Recruitment on +61 427 997 851.

At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. First Nations people are encouraged to apply.

We provide reasonable adjustments, including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with a disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please call 1300 254 257 or email adjustments@clicks.com.au
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Job Summary

Pay:

$120 per hour

Location:

VIC - Other

Job Type:

Contract

Specialisation:

Other IT & Telecommunications

Reference ID:

BBBH77722

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