Principal, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering (Aws) (Melbourne)

Overview Are you a cloud infrastructure leader ready to shape enterprise‑scale digital platforms that enable innovation, reliability and security? Deakin University is seeking a Principal, Cloud Infrastructure Engineering to provide specialist technical leadership across our cloud environments, ensuring our infrastructure is resilient, scalable and designed to support the future of digital, AI and data‑enabled services. Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business goals.
- Architect end‑to‑end cloud environments specifically optimized for AI/ML workloads.
- Write production‑ready IaC (Terraform) for auto‑scaling GPU and CPU clusters.
- Design CI/CD pipelines that automate the deployment of both infrastructure and ML models.
- Design and implement comprehensive observability and monitoring capabilities.
- Optimize cloud spend through proactive monitoring and architectural refinements. Qualifications & Experience
- Highly experienced cloud infrastructure engineering professional who thrives in complex enterprise environments.
- Expert‑level AWS AI skills: deep knowledge of Bedrock, Lambda, EventBridge, SQS, and EKS & ECS Fargate.
- High proficiency in Terraform and AWS CDK for infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Experience with RDS and RAG vector databases.
- Solid understanding of IAM roles, VPC security and data resilience (encryption, backup, redundancy) at scale.
- Mastery of MLOps principles, including model monitoring and drift detection, as well as core platform metric observability. Benefits
- Hybrid work available from either Melbourne Burwood or Geelong Waterfront Campus.
- On‑site childcare, gyms, medical centres, cafés, accessible public transport and convenient parking.
- Versatile and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including extended parental leave and the option to purchase additional leave.
- Wide range of staff benefits and discounts.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Supportive, inclusive culture with trusted leadership. Equal Opportunity Employer We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation and genders. Pre‑Employment Safety and Suitability Checks Appointment to this role is subject to successful completion of relevant pre‑employment checks, including Working With Children checks and candidate gender‑based violence declarations, in accordance with the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender‑Based Violence. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rmuhp