AI Cloud Engineer | GenAI, AWS, LangChain, LLMs

• Location: ACT / QLD (Hybrid)
• Security Clearance: Baseline Cleared (Preferred)
• Contract Length: 12 months contract + 2 × 12-month extensions (subject to Departmental discretion)

Our client is seeking an experienced AI Cloud Engineer to join a high-performing digital delivery environment. This role sits within a multidisciplinary engineering team building GenAI, Agentic AI, and modern Data Engineering solutions on AWS at enterprise scale. You will drive the design, development, and optimisation of AI workloads with a focus on performance, security, ethics, accessibility, and cost optimisation. The position is ideal for someone who is deeply technical, highly collaborative, and passionate about innovating with modern AI frameworks and cloud-native architectures.

Key responsibilities of the position:

• Design and develop GenAI and standard AI solutions using modern methodologies and cloud-native patterns.

• Apply strong Data Engineering principles across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and model pipelines.

• Develop Agentic AI systems, RAG pipelines, model distillation, and fine-tuning frameworks.

• Identify customer needs and translate business requirements into scalable, ethical AI solutions.

• Architect and build AI workloads with a focus on security, cost optimisation, governance, and performance.

• Maintain knowledge of advancements across AI, LLMs, cloud computing, and Data Engineering.

• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional technical teams and business stakeholders.

What we are looking for

• Strong experience delivering end-to-end AI and Data Engineering solutions.

• Strong hands-on experience with RAG, model fine-tuning, model distillation, and Agentic AI development.

• Deep experience in Prompt Engineering, LangChain, LangGraph, and modern LLM evaluation techniques.

• Advanced Python programming capability.

• Strong understanding of ML concepts, responsible/ethical AI controls, and cloud security.

• AWS cloud engineering experience, including platform AI/ML services (e.g., AWS Bedrock, AWS Comprehend, Kubeflow).

• Experience designing APIs, backend services, unit tests, automation, and DevOps pipelines for AI workloads.

• Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerisation, CI/CD, and automated testing.

• Strong understanding of relational and non-relational databases.

• Experience delivering AI solutions with a secure, scalable, resilient cloud architecture approach.

Desirable skills & experience:

• Data pipelines for ingestion, curation, transformation, container creation, ETL/ELT, and orchestration workflows.

• Understanding of MLOps, Data Engineering fundamentals, cloud infrastructure, and cybersecurity principles.

• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and a demonstrated ability to uplift and mentor team members.

• Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science, Data Science, IT, Engineering, or related fields.

Why Join Our Client?

• Highly technical AI, Data Engineering, and AWS-based cloud delivery environment.

• Work with modern GenAI, Agentic AI, and LLM technologies at enterprise scale.

• Influence best practice and drive uplift in AI engineering methodologies.

To showcase your interest for the position, click on ‘APPLY’ on our website or for any further information, please contact Sanat Anmadwar on Sanat.Anmadwar@talentinternational.com. We look forward to seeing how your expertise can help us achieve excellence!

Senior AI Cloud Engineer | Generative AI | Data Engineering | AWS | MLOps

• Location: ACT/ QLD (Hybrid)
• Security Clearance: Baseline Cleared (Preferred)
• Contract Length: 12 months contract + 2 × 12-month extensions

Our client is seeking a Senior AI Cloud Engineer to join a high-performing technical delivery team responsible for building secure, scalable, enterprise-grade AI solutions. Working across a diverse group of specialists, you will design and deliver critical Generative AI capabilities, modern data engineering pipelines, and cloud-native architectures. This role requires deep hands-on expertise across AI/ML engineering, cloud platforms, and agentic AI frameworks, with a strong focus on responsible AI, performance, and digital accessibility.

Key responsibilities of the position:

• Design and build Generative AI and standard AI solutions using modern concepts, tooling, and methodologies.

• Integrate strong data engineering principles into AI solution design, including feature engineering and big-data processing.

• Apply domain expertise and innovative thinking to architect end-to-end AI systems.

• Translate complex technical requirements into clear, scalable solutions for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Engineer scalable, secure, cost-optimised AI architectures aligned to enterprise standards.

• Stay across advancements in cloud computing, AI, ML, and data engineering to uplift engineering practices.

• Provide expert advisory on strategic solution design, platform direction, and tool selection.

• Partner with multiple technical and business teams, validating and challenging proposals to ensure high-quality outcomes.

What we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or related quantitative discipline.

• Strong expertise in delivering AI/ML/Data Engineering solutions at scale with strong emphasis on cloud security, governance, and fault tolerance.

• Deep understanding of end-to-end AI solution architecture and modern data engineering in cloud environments.

• Advanced ML expertise, including full lifecycle MLOps deployment from development through to production monitoring.

• Strong data engineering capability: preprocessing, feature engineering, big-data tooling, ETL/ELT, and orchestration of pipelines.

• Strong understanding of LLMs and SLMs, fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, observability, monitoring, and model optimisation.

• Experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar open AI frameworks.

Desirable skills & expertise:

• Exposure to large-scale government or enterprise digital transformation programs.

• Experience mediating cross-team disagreements and driving consensus on technical direction.

• Ability to pivot rapidly to shifting priorities while maintaining delivery focus.

Why join our client?

• Opportunity to lead and shape next-generation AI engineering capability.

• Work across a diverse, expert technical group with strong collaboration maturity.

• Drive innovative, ethical, secure, and high-impact Generative AI solutions for a major national initiative.

• Be supported in continuous learning across AI, MLOps, and cloud platforms.

To showcase your interest for the position, click on ‘APPLY’ on our website or for any further information, please contact Sanat Anmadwar on Sanat.Anmadwar@talentinternational.com. We look forward to seeing how your expertise can help us achieve excellence!

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

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to support a major commercial aviation client. This role will provide dedicated architectural capability for a large-scale Technology Platform program, ensuring continuity, technical leadership, and high-quality solution design following enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of infrastructure solutions supporting enterprise and aviation-critical systems.

• Provide architectural oversight across Windows Server, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, AWS AppStream/Workspaces, and associated file, network, and identity platforms.

• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and performance expectations aligned with aviation industry requirements.

• Work closely with internal teams to diagnose architectural bottlenecks and define improvements.

• Support the delivery of Technology Wellness and uplift initiatives within the project backlog.

• Maintain architectural governance and ensure all solutions integrate effectively within the broader enterprise environment.

• Provide continuity of expertise to replace a recently departed architect and ensure uninterrupted progress across ongoing initiatives.

Required Capabilities

• Strong expertise in Windows Server and AWS technologies.

• Deep experience with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure solutions such as Citrix, VMware Horizon, or similar.

• Hands-on capability with AWS AppStream/WorkSpaces.

• Solid understanding of file, network, and identity architecture.

• Proven track record delivering solution designs aligned with enterprise standards and security frameworks.

• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

If this is something you’d like to be considered for click APPLY NOW or contact David at david.reynolds@talentinternational.com

• AWS cloud engineering, IaC (Terraform/CDK), containers/Kubernetes, data & ML pipelines, automation and DevOps
• 12 months + 2 x 12 months
• Canberra location
• Must hold minimum Baseline clearance

Our Client

Our Federal Government client is Australia’s principle revenue collection agency, primarily responsible for administering the federal taxation system and superannuation legislation, as well as managing and delivering a range of Australian government payment and loan schemes.

The Role

Join a high-performing cloud and data team delivering mission-critical solutions at scale. As a Cloud Engineer, you’ll design and build modern AWS platforms, data and machine learning pipelines, and automated solutions that directly enable analytics, AI and digital services across a large, complex environment.

Your duties will include:

• Designing and building secure, scalable AWS cloud solutions aligned to business goals
• Translating customer needs and business outcomes into high-level and detailed cloud solution designs
• Developing data, integration and machine learning solutions and pipelines (ingestion, movement, curation, orchestration)
• Implementing infrastructure-as-code, automation and DevOps practices to improve reliability and delivery speed
• Optimising cloud solutions for performance, resilience, monitoring, security and cost efficiency
• Actively participating in upskilling and knowledge transfer activities to build internal capability across the team

Skills and Experience we are looking for:

• 5+ years’ experience designing and building AWS cloud solutions using IaC (Terraform/CDK), containers and Kubernetes
• Strong background in DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD, automation, and cloud security, including monitoring of enterprise-grade solutions
• Solid experience with data engineering technologies: Spark, SQL/NoSQL (e.g. DynamoDB), Parquet/Delta Lake/Iceberg and related tooling
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Java (Maven), Scala or Python, with experience building data and ML pipelines
• Experience working in large organisations and large cloud deployments, ideally within Agile/Scrum environments, with strong problem-solving skills
• Relevant tertiary qualification in IT/Computer Science/Data Science (or similar); exposure to AI/ML, MLOps, ETL/ELT and automated testing is highly regarded

Application Process

If you would like to apply for this opportunity, pleas click ‘APPLY’. For further information, please contact Jaela Smith on 02 6129 6302 or email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

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Our client is an iconic Australian organisation currently seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to manage and drive improvements across their AWS platform.

Your new role will see you leading a team of Platform Engineers developing on the businesses AWS platform. You will play a key role in developing the roadmap for the uplift of the AWS platform and deliver upon it over the coming years. Long term you will help the team drive the adoption of Terraform across the team and secure the the platform from a security perspective. This role offers the opportunity to build upon your people management experience and drive significant change across an enterprise AWS platform.

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in team leadership and management (teams of 5 or more)
• A strong background delivering across the AWS platform
• Understanding of networks, security and identity
• Hands on experience with Terraform
• Ability to build strong relationships with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Our client is offering a full time permanent position with offices based in Richmond. They offer a hybrid work environment with a requirement to be onsite 3 days per week. The office is close to both train and tram lines with paid onsite parking available.

For more information feel free to contact Ben Austin at ben.austin@talentintenational.com

Role Overview

Our client is expanding their DevOps team due to increased demand across existing customers and multiple new greenfield projects. As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll work within a broader development team of 35+ while collaborating closely with Solution Architects, Engineers and Product Managers.

You’ll play a key role in designing, automating and delivering cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code, building CI/CD pipelines for mobile and web applications, and enabling high-scale containerised environments. This role is ideal for someone passionate about modern tooling, automation, continuous improvement and driving DevOps culture across project teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver complex infrastructures using IaC and modern configuration management
• Architect and build CI/CD pipelines for mobile and web applications
• Monitor, troubleshoot and optimise build pipelines
• Automate, deploy, scale and manage containerised applications
• Promote DevOps best practices and an automation-first mindset
• Contribute to standards, processes and continuous improvement with Architects and Engineers
• Support production systems including monitoring, diagnostics and incident response

Key Requirements

• Strong experience with building infrastructures using AWS AND Microsoft Azure
• Proficiency with Terraform and/or other IaC tools
• Expertise with Docker; Kubernetes experience highly regarded
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for mobile and web applications
• Knowledge of build management and continuous integration services such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, etc.
• Experience with configuration management (Ansible or similar)
• Scripting knowledge in Bash, Python or Ruby
• Passion for learning, experimenting and applying emerging technologies

Benefits

• Work across diverse clients and multiple greenfield initiatives
• Be part of a growing, collaborative engineering team
• Exposure to modern cloud and DevOps tooling
• Opportunities for professional development and certification
• Supportive team culture with strong engineering leadership
• Eligible for bonus based on individual and company performance

Our client is a consultancy who has one a project for an enterprise client who is seeking an experienced Platform Operations Engineer to join on an initial 6 month contract + extensions.

The ideal candidate will have the following experience:
o Backup solutions: Avamar, Veeam, Azure Backup, ShadowProtect, NetApp
o Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, Oracle OCI
o Firewalls: Palo Alto, Azure Firewall, Checkpoint, Sophos
o Virtualisation: VMware ESXi/vCenter, Hyper-V, Dell HCI, Azure Stack
o ITIL processes: Change, Incident, Problem, Service & Event Management
o Tooling: ConnectWise, Kaseya, JIRA, Confluence, ScienceLogic
o Microsoft 365, Azure AD, DNS, DHCP, RAS, Exchange
o Windows & Linux server administration
o Storage: Azure Storage, NetApp, AWS S3
o Security: Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, TrendMicro
o VDI: Citrix, Windows Terminal Services, Azure Virtual Desktop

For more information, please contact Melissa Haddad at melissa.haddad@talentinternational.com

We are currently looking for a Platform Engineer for an organisation focused on mining and asset intelligence systems development based in Brisbane CBD for a permanent opportunity, with a hybrid work offering of around 2 days WFH per week.

This role will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native applications and services that power the platform’s data and analytics capabilities. With a strong foundation in software engineering and modern DevOps practices, the Platform Engineer will focus primarily on cloud application development while contributing to automation, CI/CD, and operational reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a platform engineering SME within the HCM Digital Solutions team, bridging application development and DevOps practices.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native applications and microservices to support the LANDCROS Connect Insight analytics platform.
• Develop and enhance RESTful APIs, event-driven services, and application frameworks that enable data and analytics capabilities.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with other platform engineers, data engineers, and solution architects to ensure scalability, reliability, and maintainability of platform components.
• Champion DevOps practices including continuous integration, deployment automation, monitoring, and incident response.
• Design and implement secure, scalable, and cost-efficient application architectures leveraging cloud-native services (preferably AWS).

Requirements:

• Strong background in software engineering, with hands-on experience in cloud application development using modern frameworks (e.g., Python, Node.js, Go, or Java).
• Proven experience in DevOps engineering, including CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and application lifecycle environment management.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (preferably AWS), including services for compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Preferably, Docker, ECS, etc.).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful APIs, microservices, and serverless architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Understanding of networking, authentication, and security best practices in cloud environments (e.g., IAM, VPC, Secrets Management).

Please apply now to have your profile reviewed or send Mats Rorvik or James Grierson an expression of interest to

• Mats.rorvik@talentinternational.com
• James.grierson@talentinternational.com