Our client:
Our client is a major Australian ASX listed group undergoing significant technology transformation. They are seeking a collaborative technology leader to strengthen engineering capability, champion automation and build effective partnerships across the business.

The role:
Based in Sydney, you will lead engineering enablement across quality engineering, DevOps, release and deployment management, environments, observability and tooling.

With six direct reports and a broader team of approximately 11, you will combine strategic leadership with technical guidance to improve delivery, support your team through change and identify practical opportunities for AI and automation.

Key responsibilities:

• Coach and develop a specialist team, building a positive, collaborative and solutions focused culture.

• Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks and consistent ways of working.

• Strengthen testing, quality assurance and test automation to improve delivery confidence.

• Oversee release, deployment and environment management to support safe, reliable change.

• Improve engineering tooling, observability and DevOps practices, identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort.

• Build strong relationships with business stakeholders, technology leaders and external vendors.

Skills and experience:

• Around 10 years’ experience across technology delivery, quality engineering, automation or release management within complex enterprise environments.

• Proven people leadership, with the ability to motivate teams, influence stakeholders and guide organisational change.

• Experience establishing and improving engineering practices across testing, quality assurance, DevOps and delivery.

• Strong technical understanding of test automation, CI/CD, release processes, environments and observability.

• Experience managing vendors and outsourced technology partners.

Exposure to AI enabled software development, Microsoft Copilot, AI agents and Jira/Atlassian tooling would be advantageous. Experience in regulated environments is desirable, with candidates from other complex industries also encouraged to apply.

Benefits and additional information:

• Package of approximately $245,000 including super, with flexibility up to approximately $280,000 for the right candidate.

• Discretionary bonus with a 20% target, subject to business and individual performance.

• Hybrid working: three days in the Sydney office and two days working from home.

• Opportunity to shape an evolving function and influence the organisation’s engineering and automation direction.

• Experienced leaders ready to step into a broader Head of function role will be considered.

Senior .NET Developer

• 12-month Contract
• Sydney CBD – Hybrid 3 days on-site
• Opportunity of converting to permanent

We are seeking an experienced Senior .NET Developer to join a large enterprise environment, working on the development, enhancement and modernisation of business-critical applications and services.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building scalable APIs, integrating existing platforms and delivering new capabilities within a complex enterprise technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance applications and APIs using C# and .NET.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and microservices across existing enterprise platforms.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services.
• Work with SQL Server for database integration, performance and optimisation.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners and engineering teams to deliver business solutions.
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with C# / .NET development.
• Proven experience designing and integrating REST APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Strong SQL Server development and optimisation skills.
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments, particularly across established applications, service domains and API ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and Agile delivery.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

Must have

• 8+ years professional experience
• Banking/Financial Services background
• Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency

An opportunity to work within a mature enterprise technology environment, contributing to the evolution of established platforms while delivering modern, scalable solutions.

You’ll work alongside experienced engineering teams on complex integration challenges, platform enhancements and ongoing technology modernisation.

.NET Developer

We are seeking an experienced Senior .NET Developer to join a large enterprise environment, working on the development, enhancement and modernisation of business-critical applications and services.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building scalable APIs, integrating existing platforms and delivering new capabilities within a complex enterprise technology landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance applications and APIs using C# and .NET.
• Build and integrate RESTful APIs and microservices across existing enterprise platforms.
• Develop cloud-native solutions leveraging AWS services.
• Work with SQL Server for database integration, performance and optimisation.
• Collaborate with architects, product owners and engineering teams to deliver business solutions.
• Contribute to technical design, code reviews, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

• Strong commercial experience with C# / .NET development.
• Proven experience designing and integrating REST APIs and microservices.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Strong SQL Server development and optimisation skills.
• Experience working within large, complex enterprise environments, particularly across established applications, service domains and API ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, design patterns and Agile delivery.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.

The Opportunity

An opportunity to work within a mature enterprise technology environment, contributing to the evolution of established platforms while delivering modern, scalable solutions.

You’ll work alongside experienced engineering teams on complex integration challenges, platform enhancements and ongoing technology modernisation.

Data Centre Support Engineers | 15 Positions | Sydney

We’re recruiting 15 Data Centre Support Engineers to join a leading Global technology organisation’s Sydney data centre operations. This is an opportunity to develop your technical skills in a hands-on environment, supporting server, network and AI/machine learning infrastructure.

These are initial six-month contracts, with the intention of converting successful performers to permanent employment, subject to performance and business requirements.

The role

• Check racks and servers and investigate equipment that is offline.

• Troubleshoot hardware issues and replace components.

• Restart equipment where instructed, following documented procedures.

• Respond to, prioritise and resolve support tickets.

• Support basic networking troubleshooting and escalate issues where required.

• Use documented instructions and AI-assisted tools to guide troubleshooting.

• Follow safety and security procedures and communicate effectively with the team.

About you

• Approximately 1-3 years of relevant technical support experience.

• At least 1 year of computer hardware troubleshooting and repair experience.

• At least 1 year of computer networking experience.

• An associate degree in IT or computer science.

• Practical experience responding to and resolving support tickets.

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to follow processes accurately.

• Clear communication skills and a calm approach to problem-solving.

• Data centre experience is preferred.

Contract and permanent opportunity

• Initial six-month contract.

• Indicative contract rates of $390 per day + super, subject to agreement.

• Candidates must be comfortable with the permanent salary before being submitted. Conversion is not guaranteed.

Location and roster

These are fully onsite roles across Sydney’s Bankstown and Western Sydney areas. Exact site details will be provided during onboarding.

The operation runs 24/7, including nights and weekends, generally on a four-on, four-off roster. The supplied rotation includes:

• Two blocks of four day shifts, 7am-7pm.

• Two blocks of four night shifts, 7pm-7am.

• Two blocks of four cover shifts, 7am-3:30pm.

• Four days off after every block.

Additional requirements

• A valid driver’s licence and your own vehicle.

• Ability to safely undertake physical tasks, including lifting equipment, bending, reaching and using ladders.

• Completion of work-rights and background checks.

• Compliance with site security and safety requirements, including wearing composite-toe, metal-free safety shoes.

Recruitment process and start date

The process includes technical screening followed by one or two client interviews covering technical knowledge and behavioural examples.

Apply now with your CV to be considered.

• Contract: Up to 12 months, with potential extension opportunities.
• Location: Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide or Perth. Initial two weeks onsite, followed by negotiated hybrid arrangements.
• Security Clearance: Must hold a Baseline security clearance.
• Key Technologies: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, OpenShift AI, Python, Terraform, DevOps, AI/ML and Generative AI platforms.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Cloud AI Engineer to support a major Australian Government digital transformation program. This is an opportunity to design, build and optimise secure, enterprise-scale AI infrastructure, enabling the adoption of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Generative AI technologies that support essential services for millions of Australians.

Your duties will include:

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure supporting AI, Machine Learning and Generative AI workloads.
• Lead the deployment, integration and optimisation of AI platforms across on-premises, public cloud and hybrid environments.
• Develop reusable infrastructure solutions using Infrastructure as Code, automation and modern DevOps practices.
• Implement and manage container-based AI environments using Kubernetes, OpenShift and associated platform technologies.
• Collaborate with architects, data scientists, cybersecurity specialists and engineering teams to deliver reliable enterprise AI solutions.
• Establish monitoring, performance optimisation, security controls and operational standards for AI infrastructure.
• Provide technical leadership, resolve complex infrastructure challenges and contribute to architecture decisions and continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• Demonstrated hands-on Cloud AI Engineering experience, including designing, implementing and supporting enterprise AI/ML environments.
• Strong experience with AWS and/or Microsoft Azure, ideally including services such as Amazon SageMaker or Azure AI/ML.
• Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift/OpenShift AI, Docker and container orchestration, including deployment, security and operational management.
• Strong capability in Infrastructure as Code and DevOps, using technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps or Argo CD.
• Proficiency in Python, Linux administration, scripting, networking and automation to support complex cloud infrastructure.
• Practical experience supporting AI/ML and Generative AI platforms, including model deployment, MLOps, Large Language Models, model serving and monitoring. Exposure to GPU infrastructure, Hugging Face, vector databases or Retrieval-Augmented Generation would be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, performance, availability and capacity management, combined with excellent stakeholder engagement and technical problem-solving skills.

Application Process

If you are an experienced Cloud AI Engineer looking to contribute to a significant Australian Government technology initiative, we would welcome your application. Please contact Vamshi on email vamshi.krishna@talentinternational.com

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Systems Tester | Federal Government | Wollongong

12-month contract with potential for a further 12-month extension

Location: Wollongong

Existing Baseline or NV1 security clearance highly preferred

Talent International is partnering with a major Federal Government organisation to recruit an experienced Systems Tester to support the delivery of complex technology projects.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong hands-on automation testing experience to work across modern cloud technologies, system integrations and enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test strategies, test plans and automation frameworks.

• Perform end-to-end system, integration, regression, API and database testing.

• Design and implement automated tests using C#, Java and modern automation tools.

• Test AWS cloud environments, data migrations and event-driven integrations.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Manage defects, test environments, reporting and release readiness.

• Collaborate with developers, business analysts and stakeholders within Agile Scrum teams.

• Mentor junior and intermediate testers to improve automation capabilities.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in systems testing, with a strong focus on automation.

• Strong hands-on automation experience using C# and Java.

• Demonstrated experience testing AWS environments, including DMS/CDC and Kinesis.

• Experience with Selenium, Playwright, JMeter, Postman and Swagger.

• Strong SQL skills for data validation, reconciliation and defect investigation.

• Experience testing APIs, data migrations and event-driven architectures.

• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.

• Strong understanding of Agile Scrum delivery methodologies.

• Experience leading testing activities and mentoring less experienced testers.

What’s on Offer

• Initial 12-month contract with potential for a further 12-month extension.

• Wollongong-based opportunity.

• Opportunity to contribute to significant Federal Government technology initiatives.

• Work with modern automation tools and cloud technologies.

• Collaborative Agile environment with experienced technology professionals.

How to Apply

If you’re an experienced Systems Tester with strong automation skills and are looking for your next contract opportunity, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out to Talent International for a confidential discussion.

FinOps Specialist

6-month Contract
Sydney | Hybrid
$600 – $740/day incl. super

We’re looking for a FinOps Specialist to join a large, complex technology environment, supporting cloud financial management, reporting and governance across the organisation.

This role would suit someone with experience across financial analysis, cloud cost management or technology reporting who enjoys working with both technical and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support monthly cloud financial reporting, forecasting and trend analysis.
• Coordinate cloud OPEX reviews with application and technology teams.
• Track cloud spend, variances, optimisation initiatives and savings opportunities.
• Prepare governance packs, metrics and reporting for key stakeholders.
• Support cloud cost transparency and planning activities.
• Provide operational and reporting support for a custom Python-based FinOps tool.
• Assist with reporting tool maintenance and enhancements.

About You

• 2-3+ years’ experience across FinOps, financial analysis, business reporting or IT operations.
• Exposure to cloud platforms and cloud financials across AWS, Azure and/or OCI.
• Strong reporting, analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Confident engaging stakeholders and gathering financial/forecast information.
• Some technical capability, ideally including Python, data/reporting or automation.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work across finance and technology teams.

This is a great opportunity to build further experience in Cloud FinOps, working across financial governance, cloud optimisation and technical reporting in a large-scale environment.

Please note: Only candidates based in Sydney, with Australian Citizenship or Permanent Residency will be considered for this position.

Wintel Infrastructure Engineers – NV2/TSPV
Canberra or Melbourne | 12-month contract + 2 x 12-month extensions | Onsite

Talent is seeking experienced Wintel Infrastructure Engineers for long-term contract opportunities within a highly secure Australian Government environment.

This is specifically a Wintel Engineering requirement. While the role has a strong cyber security and security uplift focus, we are looking for hands-on infrastructure engineers with strong Wintel expertise, rather than candidates from a primarily cyber security, GRC or security advisory background.

Candidates must hold a current NV2 or TSPV security clearance at the time of application.

The role
As a Wintel Infrastructure Engineer, you will work across enterprise infrastructure environments, supporting the implementation, management and security uplift of systems that underpin critical digital services.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Implementing and managing secure Wintel infrastructure within complex enterprise environments
• Implementing security controls to uplift the security posture of systems
• Developing SOPs for security and system administration activities
• Participating in technical workshops covering infrastructure design and remediation
• Prototyping security configurations and developing technical advice
• Supporting vulnerability assessment and cyber risk remediation activities

What we’re looking for
We are particularly interested in Wintel Engineers who can demonstrate strong infrastructure engineering capability alongside cyber security experience, including:

• Strong hands-on Wintel / Windows infrastructure engineering experience
• At least 5 years’ technical cyber security experience
• Experience securing and administering enterprise systems
• Experience implementing one or more of the Essential Eight Mitigation Strategies
• Scripting or application development experience to automate system administration or vulnerability assessment activities
• Experience developing tools or automation to assist with cyber risk assessment and remediation

Highly regarded experience includes:

• Active Directory security and remediation, including activities relating to the detection and mitigation of AD compromises
• Cloud infrastructure experience across Azure and/or AWS

Contract details
Location: Canberra ACT or Melbourne VIC
Working arrangements: Onsite
Initial term: 12 months
Extensions: 2 x 12 months
Clearance: Current NV2 or TSPV – essential

This is an excellent opportunity for experienced Wintel Infrastructure Engineers who have worked in security-focused enterprise environments and are looking for a long-term engagement of up to three years.

Apply now or reach out directly to Emma on 0480 804 408 for a confidential discussion.

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Talent International is partnering with a leading technology organisation to bring on a Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer for a major enterprise platform engagement.

You won’t simply be maintaining an existing OpenShift environment. You’ll help automate and evolve a Container-as-a-Service platform, working across Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Ansible, Argo CD, ZTP, ACM and advanced networking.

A key focus will be onboarding platform and cloud-native network functions (CNFs), while building the automation and standardisation needed to operate the environment effectively at scale.

You’ll work closely with architecture, network and automation specialists, giving you exposure across the broader platform rather than being restricted to one narrow area of OpenShift.

What you’ll be working on

• Designing, building and automating Red Hat OpenShift platform components.
• Developing automated, repeatable platform deployments using Ansible and Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Building and implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
• Implementing Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and declarative cluster lifecycle management.
• Managing multi-cluster OpenShift environments using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).
• Supporting the onboarding of cloud-native network functions, applications and platform tenants.
• Engineering OpenShift networking across OVN-Kubernetes, MetalLB, BGP, Multus and SR-IOV.
• Working across platform, infrastructure and networking layers to solve complex technical problems.
• Supporting production and test environments, including troubleshooting, incident resolution, lifecycle management and patching.
• Helping establish standards, documentation and automation that make the platform easier to operate and scale.
• Sharing technical knowledge with internal engineering and operations teams.

What we’re looking for

You’ll be a senior, hands-on platform engineer who is comfortable owning problems across OpenShift rather than operating within a narrowly defined support function.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Strong hands-on Red Hat OpenShift 4.x experience.
• Strong Kubernetes platform engineering experience at enterprise scale.
• Proven GitOps / Argo CD implementation experience.
• Strong Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform capability.
• Experience applying Infrastructure as Code and automation principles.
• Hands-on experience with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP).
• Experience with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) and multi-cluster environments.
• Deep OpenShift/Kubernetes networking knowledge, including OVN-Kubernetes, MetalLB, BGP, Multus and SR-IOV.
• Strong Linux and Linux networking fundamentals.
• Familiarity with technologies such as OpenShift Platform Plus, Quay and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF).

Even better if you have

Experience in telecommunications or with cloud-native network functions (CNFs) would be particularly valuable.

We’re also interested in experience across:

• Air-gapped or disconnected OpenShift environments.
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS).
• BGP, ACI, EVPN or broader data centre networking.
• NUMA, DPDK and performance tuning.
• Prometheus, Grafana and Alertmanager.
• Storage, backup and supporting infrastructure technologies.

The details

This is an initial 100-day / approximately 3-month contract, with strong potential for extension.

You’ll be embedded within the customer environment in Macquarie Park, Sydney, working full-time onsite alongside the teams you’re supporting. There is currently no work-from-home component.

A September start is preferred.

If you’re an OpenShift engineer who wants to work across the deeper engineering, automation and networking challenges of a large-scale platform, we’d love to hear from you.

Our client

Our client is a globally recognised technology organisation delivering large-scale enterprise transformation projects for some of Australia’s biggest businesses. With a strong reputation for innovation and delivery excellence, this is an opportunity to gain valuable experience on a complex, high-profile program while working alongside experienced project professionals.

The role

We’re looking for a Junior Project Coordinator or Project Administrator to support an experienced Program Manager across the day-to-day coordination of a large enterprise program.

This role is ideal for someone with around 3-4 years of project experience who enjoys organisation, stakeholder coordination and keeping projects moving. You’ll play a key role in project governance, administration and change activities while gaining exposure to a complex technology environment.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare meeting agendas and record meeting minutes
• Track actions and follow up with stakeholders to ensure completion
• Coordinate project documentation and administration
• Raise maintenance window requests and manage approval workflows
• Support project governance and reporting activities
• Assist with change management coordination across the program
• Provide day-to-day support to the Program Manager

Skills and experience

• 3-4 years’ experience as a Project Coordinator, Project Administrator or similar
• Strong organisational and administrative skills
• Experience supporting project delivery in a corporate or technology environment
• Excellent written communication and attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and follow through on actions

Benefits and additional information

• 6-12 month contract with strong potential for extension
• $500-600 per day
• Work alongside an experienced Program Manager
• Exposure to a major enterprise technology program
• Excellent opportunity to build experience within a globally recognised organisation

Senior Applied AI Engineer

Join a major digital transformation initiative focused on improving complex operational planning and scheduling.

The role sits within a small, highly collaborative product team developing an AI-enabled decision-support platform that combines operational data, mathematical optimisation and agentic AI.

A big focus initially will be working closely with Data Engineers to get the underlying data models right, before helping build optimisation and AI capabilities that allow users to interrogate complex operational information using natural language.

Key areas include:

* Data modelling and analytical workflows
* Mathematical optimisation, planning and scheduling
* AWS Bedrock and AgentCore
* Agentic AI workflows and tool integrations
* Python and production-grade software engineering
* Natural language interfaces over operational data
* Building practical, user-facing decision-support products

This is not a traditional AI Engineering role focused purely on LLM architecture or prompt engineering. The team is looking for someone who understands how optimisation models, operational data and AI can work together to solve complex planning problems.

A strong product mindset will also be important. They want someone who can challenge assumptions, ask what will genuinely create value for users, and help keep the solution aligned to the broader product vision.

Must-have experience:
* AWS Bedrock and AgentCore
* Strong data modelling experience
* Python / software engineering capability
* Experience building enterprise AI solutions
* Ability to work across data, optimisation and application engineering

Experience in optimisation, scheduling, industrial environments, mining/resources or other complex operational settings would be highly regarded.

If this sounds aligned with your background, feel free to reach out for a confidential conversation.

• 12 Month Contract
• Brisbane Based
• $1000 Per Day

The Role

As an Infrastructure Architect, you will provide technical leadership across multiple platform and infrastructure initiatives, working closely with application, infrastructure, security, vendor and delivery teams.

You will be responsible for translating business and technical requirements into practical architecture and driving solutions from initial design through to implementation and operational handover.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-level and detailed solution architectures across platform services, integrations, automation and operational tooling.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of platform initiatives from requirements gathering through to implementation and handover.
• Design scalable, secure and resilient infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance and technical leadership to project teams and stakeholders.
• Design and support integrations across enterprise systems, SaaS platforms and identity services.
• Champion cloud-native architecture, automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and platform engineering practices.
• Work closely with application, infrastructure and security teams to ensure successful platform adoption.
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture, security and technology standards.
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives and technical workstreams.
• Collaborate with vendors, managed service providers and offshore delivery teams.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Strong experience across the Microsoft technology stack.
• Demonstrated expertise with Microsoft Entra ID and Azure/Active Directory.
• Strong experience designing and configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) solutions.
• Experience configuring integrations between enterprise systems and SaaS platforms.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing processes and configurations within SaaS platforms to meet business requirements.
• Strong understanding of identity, authentication and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience developing both high-level and detailed solution architecture.
• Proven delivery experience within large, complex enterprise environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

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