Strategic Infrastructure Modernisation Consultant, AWS Professional Services

ID: 7159

Type: Full-time

Category: Others

Company Name: Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Location: AUS, WA, Perth - Perth - Australia

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Job Description

AWS Professional Services is seeking a Strategic Infrastructure Modernisation Consultant to lead the design and deployment of a modern digital foundations architecture and enterprise AI platform for one of Australia's largest mining and resources companies. This is a Perth-based engagement to implement an edge-to-cloud architecture across 18 remote operational sites, scale an AI platform from initial deployment to enterprise-grade operations supporting 500+ concurrent agents, and deliver a sequenced pipeline of AI use cases. The program has already validated the target architecture and deployed the initial AI platform during its first year.

You will be the senior technical leader for the platform and infrastructure stream, responsible for architecture implementation, multi-site rollout, AI platform hardening, and operational transition. You will lead a team of 7 engineers spanning MLOps/DevOps, cloud platform, network/IoT, and data engineering.

Key job responsibilities
Platform and Architecture Leadership
- Lead implementation of the approved target architecture (edge-to-cloud, security, connectivity, observability) across operational sites
- Harden the AI platform for enterprise-scale operations — 500+ concurrent agent capacity, full governance framework, CI/CD pipelines
- Deploy repeatable patterns for scalable site-by-site rollout
- Implement modern data transfer patterns from edge-to-cloud with single-source-of-truth data access
- Integrate with existing third-party platforms

AI Platform Scale-Out
- Scale production agents across Operations, Maintenance, and Commercial domains
- Implement full governance framework — guardrails, audit trails, cost accounting, agent lifecycle management
- Enable citizen development patterns — self-service agent creation with appropriate guardrails

Executive Engagement
- Operate as a trusted advisor to the customer's infrastructure and operations leadership
- Translate infrastructure and platform decisions into business outcomes for Steering Committee and Board audiences
- Coordinate with the modernisation stream lead to ensure foundations support the modernisation roadmap

Team and Capability Building
- Lead and mentor a team of MLOps/DevOps engineers, cloud platform engineers, network/IoT specialists, and data engineers
- Establish platform operations team and transition to customer-led operations
- Build platform engineering capability within the customer's technology teams

About the team
Diverse Experiences
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Work/Life Balance
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Basic Qualifications

- Experience leading the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
- Experience leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments
- Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale
- 10+ years of managing an engineering team operating at scale experience
- Experience in executive level engagement with SVP/VP/C-Suite
- Experience working with customers on substantial, strategic, and complex software or cloud services/infrastructure deals from opportunity through closure
- Experience in building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making, or experience delivering results for large, cross-functional initiatives/projects

Preferred Qualifications

- Mining, resources, or heavy industry experience — understanding of OT/IT convergence, edge connectivity constraints, safety systems, and site-based delivery
- Experience with IoT/edge computing deployments in operational technology environments
- Familiarity with AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and agentic AI architectures
- Experience integrating with Databricks and Oracle platforms
- Experience in the Australian market

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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Company Information

Company Name: Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd

Company Website: https://aws.amazon.com

Company Address: AUS, NSW, Sydney

Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is the Australian legal entity for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing arm of Amazon. As presented in official AWS materials, AWS operates a global cloud platform that delivers a broad set of on-demand cloud services including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, application services, deployment, management, developer tools, security and identity services, machine learning, and Internet of Things (IoT). Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd represents AWS’s presence and operations in Australia, supporting Australian customers, partners, government agencies, and the local technology ecosystem by providing access to AWS cloud infrastructure, platform services, and related commercial and professional offerings located in or delivered into the Australian market. Company overview and position: Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is part of the broader AWS organization, which AWS describes on its official site as “the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.” In Australia the company supports a local AWS Region and multiple Availability Zones that enable customers to run workloads with data residency in Australia and to meet local regulatory and compliance needs. The local entity facilitates sales, customer engagement, partner programs, technical support, professional services and training for enterprises, public sector organisations, startups, educational institutions and independent software vendors across Australia and nearby markets. Core business activities: The core business activity of Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd is to provide cloud infrastructure and platform services on a commercial, on-demand basis. Key activities include provisioning compute capacity (virtual servers, containers, serverless compute), object and block storage, managed database services, networking and content distribution, analytics and data lakes, machine learning and AI services, developer tooling, identity and access management, security and compliance controls, and migration and hybrid-cloud solutions. The entity also operates programs for partners (AWS Partner Network), provides professional services and technical consulting (AWS Professional Services), and delivers training and certification programs to help organisations build cloud skills and adopt AWS services. Main products and services: In line with AWS’s global product portfolio, the Australia entity offers the primary AWS service families to local customers. Compute services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Lambda (serverless), AWS Elastic Beanstalk and container services such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS). Storage offerings include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and various archival and file storage options. Managed database services offered locally include Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB (NoSQL) and Amazon ElastiCache. Networking and delivery capabilities include Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS Direct Connect for private connectivity, and Amazon CloudFront for content delivery. For analytics and big data, AWS provides services such as Amazon EMR, Amazon Redshift (data warehousing), AWS Glue (data integration) and a range of analytics tools. The company also offers machine learning and artificial intelligence services—led by Amazon SageMaker for model development—as well as prebuilt AI services for vision, language and forecasting. Additional services include developer and DevOps tooling (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline), monitoring and observability (Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray), security tooling (AWS Identity and Access Management, AWS Key Management Service, AWS Security Hub), IoT services, and specialized edge and hybrid offerings such as AWS Outposts. Local capabilities and compliance: AWS’s Australian operations emphasize local data residency, security and compliance frameworks appropriate for enterprises and public sector customers. The local Region and associated Availability Zones enable organisations to keep data and workloads in Australia to satisfy regulatory and contractual requirements. AWS also publishes compliance programs, certifications and guidance relevant to Australian law and sector-specific requirements, and works with customers to implement security controls and architectures aligned with best practices. Customer segments and partner ecosystem: Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd serves a broad base of customers, from government agencies and large enterprises to startups, academic institutions and nonprofit organisations. The company supports digital transformation initiatives, cloud migration, analytics and AI deployments, software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings from local independent software vendors, and emerging workloads such as IoT and edge computing. AWS runs partner programs through the AWS Partner Network (APN) to enable system integrators, managed service providers, consultancies and technology partners to build, market and sell solutions on AWS. The organisation also supports startups via programs like AWS Activate and provides training and certification to build cloud skills within the Australian workforce. Support, training and professional services: To help customers adopt and operate cloud solutions, Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd provides technical support plans, architectural guidance, migration tools and professional services through both AWS’s own professional services teams and certified partners. AWS Training and Certification offerings are delivered locally to help developers, cloud architects and operations teams gain practical skills across AWS services and best practices. In summary, Amazon Web Services Australia Pty Ltd operates as the Australian arm of AWS, delivering the company’s global portfolio of cloud infrastructure and platform services to organisations in Australia. Its activities include provisioning and supporting compute, storage, database, networking, analytics, machine learning, developer tooling, security and management services; supporting compliance and data residency requirements through a local AWS Region; enabling partners and customers through professional services, training and certification; and fostering a local ecosystem of technology providers and innovators that build on AWS cloud capabilities. The information above is consistent with the descriptions and service portfolios presented on AWS’s official website and AWS regional documentation.

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