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Key Requirements
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- **Australian Citizen** — you must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance before day one.
- **5+ years hands-on AI Engineering** — greenfield and brownfield AI/ML environments across on-premise, public cloud and hybrid platforms; no juniors, no pretenders.
- **Based in VIC or NSW** — hybrid role with a mandatory full-time onsite first 6 weeks; you need to be within reasonable commute of the office.
The Gig
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## G'day, AI trailblazers!
Cloud Delivered is on the hunt for a **Senior AI Engineer** to join a high-impact federal government programme — and this gig is the real deal.
**Picture this:** You're embedded in a large-scale Technology and Digital Programme, working hybrid across VIC or NSW, designing and building secure-by-design AI/ML platforms that help millions of Australians access government services. We're talking greenfield and brownfield implementations, on-premise and public cloud, GPU engineering, MLOps, LLMs, RAG pipelines — the full stack. Your first six weeks are full-time onsite to nail the foundations, then hybrid kicks in.
This is a **12-month contract** (up to 24 months extension) at **Senior / EL1 equivalent** — the kind of role that puts serious runs on the board.
You'll be the go-to expert collaborating with Data Scientists, Cyber Security, Architecture and Core Data teams to establish foundational AI platform capability. You'll drive innovation, enforce governance, and translate complex technical requirements into scalable, compliant solutions aligned with APS frameworks. Autonomy is high — so is the expectation.
**We know because we do.** The Cloud Delivered crew are senior ICT contractors ourselves. We know what it takes to walk into a federal agency and deliver at pace. We'll back you with straight-up advice, fast feedback, and zero fluff.
If you tick the essentials below, we'll help you excel — let's get you across the line.
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**Talk to us:**
- 🔗 [Cloud Delivered](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clouddelivered/)
- 🔗 [Tristan Coleman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristancoleman/)
- 🔗 [Dan Harrison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dgwharrison/)
- 🔗 [Ursan Sachdeva](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ursansachdeva/)
Essential Criteria
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1. **Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Monitors the external environment for emerging technologies; assesses and documents impacts, threats and opportunities; creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares insights.
2. **Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Advises on and promotes adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards; evaluates, selects and implements them at programme, project and team levels; contributes to organisational policies and standards; reviews their benefits and value and recommends improvements.
3. **Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development; plans and drives construction; adopts and adapts methods, tools and techniques; monitors project/team standards including software security; contributes to organisational policies and standards.
4. **Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Leads assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including risk; liaises with business and technology teams on scheduling and progress; conducts post-release reviews; ensures release processes are applied and releases can be rolled back; manages adoption of release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.
5. **Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment; plans and drives configuration activities; adopts and adapts methods, tools and techniques; monitors standards including software security; contributes to organisational policies and standards.
6. **Software design: Level 4 (SFIA)**
Designs complex software applications, components and modules using agreed modelling techniques, standards, patterns and methodology; creates and communicates multiple design views balancing stakeholder concerns and functional and non-functional requirements; evaluates and recommends design options and trade-offs; models or prototypes software for stakeholder approval; verifies and improves own designs and leads reviews of others'.
7. **Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA)**
Provides detailed, specific advice on applying their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations; maintains specialist knowledge, recognises its boundaries and collaborates with other specialists where appropriate.
8. **Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs; balances functional and non-functional requirements; reviews systems designs and ensures appropriate methods, tools and techniques; assesses and manages risks; contributes to system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
9. **Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Plans and drives development of systems integration and build capabilities, including automation and continuous integration; manages adoption of tools, techniques and processes for a robust integration framework; provides authoritative advice; leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design; assesses risks and takes preventative action; monitors standards; contributes to organisational policies and standards.
10. **Testing: Level 4 (SFIA)**
Selects the testing approach, manual and automated; develops and executes test plans and cases; implements scalable, reliable automated tests and frameworks; collaborates across design and development for comprehensive coverage; identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes; analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including others' work.
Desirable Criteria
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1. **Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA)**
Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes; assists with audits and takes corrective action under direction.
Screening Questions YOU WILL BE ASKED:
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Seriously, don't bother if you don't think you'll pass these questions.
• Are you an Australian Citizen? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• What is the highest active or dormant security clearance you currently hold? (Expected answer: one of the listed options)
• Can you attend onsite at the VIC or NSW office when required? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• Are you located in VIC or NSW or will you relocate? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• Are you an Australian Citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• Do you currently hold an active Baseline (or higher) security clearance? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• How many total years have you worked in the federal government ICT sector? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of hands-on experience do you have as an AI Engineer, including solution design, implementation and operation of greenfield and brownfield AI/ML environments? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with AI/ML engineering and MLOps, including model lifecycle management, training, inference, deployment and monitoring? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with LLM and Generative AI tooling, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector databases and foundation models? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with containers and platform engineering, including Docker/Podman, container security and secure software supply chain practices? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and/or Ansible and GitOps/Argo CD? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with GPU engineering, including NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA fundamentals and GPU scheduling? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have applying security, governance and compliance practices including DevSecOps, RBAC and Australian Government regulatory requirements? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with configuration management tooling and processes (e.g. tracking, logging, auditing configuration items)? (Expected answer: a number)
────────────────
- **Australian Citizen** — you must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance before day one.
- **5+ years hands-on AI Engineering** — greenfield and brownfield AI/ML environments across on-premise, public cloud and hybrid platforms; no juniors, no pretenders.
- **Based in VIC or NSW** — hybrid role with a mandatory full-time onsite first 6 weeks; you need to be within reasonable commute of the office.
The Gig
───────
## G'day, AI trailblazers!
Cloud Delivered is on the hunt for a **Senior AI Engineer** to join a high-impact federal government programme — and this gig is the real deal.
**Picture this:** You're embedded in a large-scale Technology and Digital Programme, working hybrid across VIC or NSW, designing and building secure-by-design AI/ML platforms that help millions of Australians access government services. We're talking greenfield and brownfield implementations, on-premise and public cloud, GPU engineering, MLOps, LLMs, RAG pipelines — the full stack. Your first six weeks are full-time onsite to nail the foundations, then hybrid kicks in.
This is a **12-month contract** (up to 24 months extension) at **Senior / EL1 equivalent** — the kind of role that puts serious runs on the board.
You'll be the go-to expert collaborating with Data Scientists, Cyber Security, Architecture and Core Data teams to establish foundational AI platform capability. You'll drive innovation, enforce governance, and translate complex technical requirements into scalable, compliant solutions aligned with APS frameworks. Autonomy is high — so is the expectation.
**We know because we do.** The Cloud Delivered crew are senior ICT contractors ourselves. We know what it takes to walk into a federal agency and deliver at pace. We'll back you with straight-up advice, fast feedback, and zero fluff.
If you tick the essentials below, we'll help you excel — let's get you across the line.
---
**Talk to us:**
- 🔗 [Cloud Delivered](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clouddelivered/)
- 🔗 [Tristan Coleman](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristancoleman/)
- 🔗 [Dan Harrison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/dgwharrison/)
- 🔗 [Ursan Sachdeva](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ursansachdeva/)
Essential Criteria
──────────────────
1. **Emerging technology monitoring: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Monitors the external environment for emerging technologies; assesses and documents impacts, threats and opportunities; creates reports and technology roadmaps and shares insights.
2. **Methods and tools: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Advises on and promotes adoption of methods and tools and adherence to policies and standards; evaluates, selects and implements them at programme, project and team levels; contributes to organisational policies and standards; reviews their benefits and value and recommends improvements.
3. **Programming/software development: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of software development; plans and drives construction; adopts and adapts methods, tools and techniques; monitors project/team standards including software security; contributes to organisational policies and standards.
4. **Release and deployment: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Leads assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including risk; liaises with business and technology teams on scheduling and progress; conducts post-release reviews; ensures release processes are applied and releases can be rolled back; manages adoption of release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.
5. **Software configuration: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Takes technical responsibility across all stages and iterations of configuration development and deployment; plans and drives configuration activities; adopts and adapts methods, tools and techniques; monitors standards including software security; contributes to organisational policies and standards.
6. **Software design: Level 4 (SFIA)**
Designs complex software applications, components and modules using agreed modelling techniques, standards, patterns and methodology; creates and communicates multiple design views balancing stakeholder concerns and functional and non-functional requirements; evaluates and recommends design options and trade-offs; models or prototypes software for stakeholder approval; verifies and improves own designs and leads reviews of others'.
7. **Specialist advice: Level 4 (SFIA)**
Provides detailed, specific advice on applying their specialism to the organisation's planning and operations; maintains specialist knowledge, recognises its boundaries and collaborates with other specialists where appropriate.
8. **Systems design: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Designs large or complex systems and undertakes impact analysis on major design options and trade-offs; balances functional and non-functional requirements; reviews systems designs and ensures appropriate methods, tools and techniques; assesses and manages risks; contributes to system design policies, standards and selection of architecture components.
9. **Systems integration and build: Level 5 (SFIA)**
Plans and drives development of systems integration and build capabilities, including automation and continuous integration; manages adoption of tools, techniques and processes for a robust integration framework; provides authoritative advice; leads integration work in line with the agreed system and service design; assesses risks and takes preventative action; monitors standards; contributes to organisational policies and standards.
10. **Testing: Level 4 (SFIA)**
Selects the testing approach, manual and automated; develops and executes test plans and cases; implements scalable, reliable automated tests and frameworks; collaborates across design and development for comprehensive coverage; identifies improvements in requirements, design or specification processes; analyses and reports on test activities, results, issues and risks, including others' work.
Desirable Criteria
──────────────────
1. **Configuration management: Level 2 (SFIA)**
Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes; assists with audits and takes corrective action under direction.
Screening Questions YOU WILL BE ASKED:
──────────────────────────────────────
Seriously, don't bother if you don't think you'll pass these questions.
• Are you an Australian Citizen? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• What is the highest active or dormant security clearance you currently hold? (Expected answer: one of the listed options)
• Can you attend onsite at the VIC or NSW office when required? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• Are you located in VIC or NSW or will you relocate? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• Are you an Australian Citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a Baseline security clearance? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• Do you currently hold an active Baseline (or higher) security clearance? (Expected answer: yes / no)
• How many total years have you worked in the federal government ICT sector? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of hands-on experience do you have as an AI Engineer, including solution design, implementation and operation of greenfield and brownfield AI/ML environments? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with AI/ML engineering and MLOps, including model lifecycle management, training, inference, deployment and monitoring? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with LLM and Generative AI tooling, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation, vector databases and foundation models? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with containers and platform engineering, including Docker/Podman, container security and secure software supply chain practices? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and/or Ansible and GitOps/Argo CD? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with GPU engineering, including NVIDIA GPUs, CUDA fundamentals and GPU scheduling? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have applying security, governance and compliance practices including DevSecOps, RBAC and Australian Government regulatory requirements? (Expected answer: a number)
• How many years of experience do you have with configuration management tooling and processes (e.g. tracking, logging, auditing configuration items)? (Expected answer: a number)
