AWS DevOps and MLOps Engineer

About the role

HCM Australia is recruiting an APS6-equivalent Machine Learning Engineer for a Federal Government contract. Although the title suggests machine learning, the role is primarily a hands-on AWS DevOps and platform engineering position, moving machine-learning and generative AI solutions from prototype into secure production environments. It bridges development and operations so that multidisciplinary teams can deliver scalable, reliable products.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain AWS infrastructure for AI, machine learning, software engineering and data science workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, AWS CDK, CloudFormation or equivalent tools.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines covering build, test, security scanning, release and deployment.
• Deploy and support APIs, web applications, AI services, machine-learning models and data products.
• Operate containerised workloads with Docker, Kubernetes and preferably Amazon EKS.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and observability for cloud services.
• Implement cloud security controls, IAM, secrets management and secure deployment practices.
• Support MLOps and LLMOps for model deployment, evaluation, monitoring and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment and production issues, and create runbooks, documentation and engineering standards.

Required profile

• Demonstrated hands-on experience designing, deploying and supporting solutions on AWS.
• Ability to work with data scientists, AI engineers, software engineers and business stakeholders.
• Australian citizenship is mandatory; candidates must be able to obtain an Australian Government NV1 security clearance, with existing Baseline clearance expected and current NV1 strongly regarded.

Required skills

• Strong Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code capability.
• Production CI/CD engineering and Git-based source control.
• Docker and Kubernetes, ideally including Amazon EKS.
• Python programming.
• Knowledge of AWS services such as S3, Lambda, SQS and SNS.
• Preferred: MLOps, LLMOps, Amazon Bedrock, vector databases, RAG, generative AI and GitLab experience.

The contract is initial 12 months with a possible 12-month extension, up to 37.5 hours per week, with a hybrid arrangement (typically one day a week in the office). Locations include Brisbane, Surry Hills, Deakin, Richmond, Geelong and Adelaide; Melbourne or NSW candidates are preferred. Expected start is 14 December 2026. Apply through HCM Australia with a resume and a short summary of your AWS, IaC, CI/CD, containerisation and production support experience.