Senior Platform Engineer (Advisory Contract)

About the role

Talent Aligned is recruiting, on behalf of an emerging Australian technology company focused on AI and compute-intensive infrastructure, a Senior Platform Engineer for an ongoing ad hoc advisory contract of about one day per week. The consultant does not run day-to-day operations but guides the engineering team, builds internal capabilities and advises on best practices for specialist GPU cloud environments. The engagement is remote, based in Sydney, with a competitive daily rate.

Key responsibilities

• Mentor and upskill the engineering team in infrastructure automation, containerisation and DevOps best practices.
• Advise on evaluating and integrating specialist GPU cloud services and compute platforms.
• Help build reliable automation and operational processes using Terraform, Ansible, Python and shell scripting.
• Provide architectural guidance on containerised workloads, CI/CD pipelines and monitoring frameworks.
• Ensure secure practices for credentials, secrets management and infrastructure access.

Required profile

• Senior practitioner in platform engineering, DevOps or cloud infrastructure who enjoys mentoring.
• Comfortable with an ad hoc, one day per week arrangement and able to make a high-impact strategic contribution.
• Australian citizen with current working rights, eligible to obtain and maintain an Australian Government NV1 security clearance.

Required skills

• Linux and public cloud platforms.
• Python or Bash scripting.
• Docker, Kubernetes or Slurm.
• Terraform and Ansible.
• Prometheus and Grafana.
• DNS, TLS and API networking basics.
• Advantageous: GPU cloud platforms, NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA or HPC projects.

To apply, send your resume and a brief outline of your experience mentoring technical teams and your expertise in cloud infrastructure and automation.