Senior Specialist DevOps Engineer

About the role

Rio Tinto is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable and reliable platform capabilities that help its teams deliver data, analytics and AI solutions. The role sits in the Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) platform engineering team, which works with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Cyber Security and digital teams across Product Groups and Functions. It is a permanent full-time position based in Brisbane or Perth.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure, scalable platform services that enable data, analytics and AI workloads across cloud environments
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines and release automation using tools such as Terraform and GitHub
• Create reusable, self-service platform capabilities that make infrastructure easier for engineering teams to adopt
• Improve reliability, observability, deployment performance and operational efficiency through Site Reliability Engineering practices, monitoring and automation
• Lead the investigation and resolution of complex platform incidents, including introducing intelligent and self-healing capabilities
• Embed secure-by-design controls, identity and access management, governance standards and maintainable engineering patterns
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Cyber Security, Data Science, Data Engineering, product groups, functions, delivery partners and vendors to deliver platform outcomes and guide adoption

Required profile

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated experience designing, operating and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms and production environments in Azure or AWS
• Experience supporting data, analytics or AI platforms, with ability to improve reliability, automation and developer experience
• Experience translating complex platform needs into practical outcomes and working across technical and business teams to build adoption, documentation and service excellence
• A degree in computer science, engineering or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

Required skills

• Platform engineering and DevOps, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, release automation and modern cloud solution design
• Hands-on experience with Terraform or comparable IaC tooling, source control such as GitHub, containerisation, monitoring and observability tooling, and security and identity controls
• Helpful: Databricks, Lakehouse platforms, machine learning infrastructure, Foundry or similar enterprise data platforms, and a professional cloud certification in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud

What we offer

• Permanent position with a competitive base salary and annual incentive program
• Medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Share ownership plan, company-provided insurance and salary sacrifice and packaging options
• Career development and education assistance
• Family-friendly health and wellbeing support, and leave for vacation, parental, sick and cultural reasons
• Employee discounts