CYOS Solutions
CYOS Solutions
11 – 50 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsMarketing
CYOS Solutions is an IT recruitment agency supporting federal government hiring across Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. The company specializes in placing IT contractors and draws on the practical experience of its founders, who previously worked as contractors themselves. Its recruitment work connects qualified IT professionals with a range of government-focused opportunities while helping clients address specialized IT staffing needs.

Senior AI and Cloud Engineer

Build secure AI, machine learning and cloud platforms for Services Australia. Lead scalable solutions across public cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.

Description

  • Design and optimise enterprise AI, machine learning and generative AI platforms, applications and infrastructure.
  • Lead secure, scalable engineering solutions across public cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
  • Create cloud-native architectures, infrastructure automation and enterprise AI engineering frameworks.
  • Build and maintain AI and machine learning solutions through deployment, inference, evaluation, monitoring and lifecycle management.
  • Design and support highly available cloud infrastructure, with attention to capacity, resilience and operational performance.
  • Lead software development, systems integration, platform deployment, migration and technical implementation.
  • Maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments and secure software delivery processes.
  • Apply DevSecOps, secure-by-design practices and Australian Government security, privacy and governance requirements.
  • Assess technical requirements and recommend suitable architectures, technologies and implementation approaches.
  • Resolve complex technical issues across applications, platforms, infrastructure and enterprise services.
  • Guide multidisciplinary delivery teams with technical leadership and specialist advice.
  • Set engineering standards, reusable architecture patterns, technical documentation and operational procedures.
  • Work with internal and external stakeholders to align solutions with business needs and organisational objectives.
  • Advance innovation, continuous improvement, technical governance and adoption of emerging technologies.
  • Support operational readiness, system reliability, release management, knowledge transfer and service improvement.

Requirements

  • Hold an active Baseline security clearance.
  • Bring senior technical experience in AI software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, MLOps, solution architecture or enterprise systems integration.
  • Demonstrate strong programming and software engineering skills, particularly in Python, automation, APIs and enterprise application integration.
  • Have experience designing, developing and implementing enterprise AI and machine learning solutions.
  • Have AI/ML engineering and MLOps experience spanning model development, training, inference, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and lifecycle management.
  • Have experience with LLMs, generative AI, RAG, embeddings, vector databases, AI agents and foundation models.
  • Have experience with AI frameworks and tools such as Hugging Face, vLLM/TGI, Kubeflow, AWS SageMaker, Azure AI or Azure Machine Learning.
  • Have experience in software architecture, systems design, integration, configuration and release management, and automated testing.
  • Have experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise cloud infrastructure across AWS, Microsoft Azure, on-premises or hybrid environments.
  • Have experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenShift AI or comparable container orchestration and cloud-native platforms.
  • Have experience with Docker or Podman, container image management, registries, vulnerability scanning and secure software supply chains.
  • Have experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, Argo CD, GitLab, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
  • Have experience with Linux administration, networking, storage, DNS, TLS, load balancing, ingress, certificates and cloud/on-premises connectivity.
  • Have experience with cloud availability, capacity planning, performance optimisation, disaster recovery and operational resilience.
  • Have experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability tools, including Prometheus, Grafana, AWS CloudWatch or Azure Application Insights.
  • Have experience applying FinOps principles, cloud cost transparency, resource optimisation and financial governance.
  • Know NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, CUDA fundamentals, GPU scheduling and AI workload optimisation.
  • Have experience with OpenShift AI pipelines, model registries, model serving and S3-compatible object storage.
  • Know REST APIs, OAuth/OIDC, API gateways, streaming platforms and data lakes.
  • Know DevSecOps, RBAC, secrets management, network security, vulnerability management and secure platform configuration.
  • Understand Australian Government security frameworks, privacy obligations, data sovereignty and regulatory compliance.
  • Demonstrate technical leadership and the ability to provide specialist advice and guidance on complex initiatives.
  • Be able to work independently, solve complex technical challenges and influence technical decisions.
  • Show experience designing complex enterprise technology solutions and implementing secure, scalable, maintainable and supportable systems.
  • Have led or contributed to complex software development, systems integration, infrastructure implementation, automated deployment or technology migration.
  • Have experience selecting, implementing and improving engineering methods, development tools, infrastructure automation practices and technical standards.
  • Understand secure-by-design principles, cybersecurity requirements, technical risk management and governance obligations.
  • Communicate clearly in writing and verbally; present complex technical concepts, collaborate across disciplines and influence stakeholders.
  • Provide an updated CV, preferably 3–5 pages.
  • Shortlisted candidates must provide a one-page pitch of no more than 5,000 characters.

Benefits

  • A hybrid work-from-home arrangement may be considered after the first two weeks, usually requiring at least two days onsite each week.
  • Contract extensions may be available up to a maximum term of 24 months.

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