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Senior DevOps Engineer - AI

Deloitte • Permanent • AU • 1d ago

Senior DevOps Engineer – AI | Technology & GenAI - Productionisation & Automation | Melbourne

Be at the forefront of our AI journey

Choice and flexibility on where, when and how you work

Learn from the best in the business

What will your typical day look like?

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of Deloitte’s ClearTrack Generative AI & Digital Assets platform, helping design, build and run highly secure, scalable GenAI infrastructure that powers real-world outcomes. You’ll work closely with AI engineers, developers and architects to keep platforms fast, resilient and production-ready — while continuously evolving our stack to stay ahead of emerging AI technologies.

In this role, you will:

Design, implement and operate the central GenAI & Assets platform, built on Kubernetes

Engineer reliable, secure cloud infrastructure across AWS and/or Azure

Monitor performance, availability and cost, optimising systems for scale and speed

Troubleshoot complex system, software and networking issues

Own system security, patching, updates and resilience

Drive Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and DevSecOps best practice

Ensure robust backup, disaster recovery and platform documentation

Partner with IT, security and engineering teams to integrate new AI capabilities

About the team

The National Generative AI and Assets team sits within Deloitte’s Strategy, Transformation & Innovation office — a group shaping the future of how the firm delivers value to its largest and most complex clients.

We bring together Design, AI and Software Engineering to build enterprise-grade GenAI platforms and digital products that improve productivity, decision-making and business performance. Our work moves quickly from idea to production, combining cutting-edge technology with strong governance and security.

If you’re excited by scaling AI responsibly in enterprise environments, this is where it happens.

What success looks like:

High availability, low-latency GenAI platforms running in production
Secure, compliant systems with minimal downtime
Well-documented, automated infrastructure and deployment pipelines
Continuous improvements to performance, reliability and developer experience
On-time delivery of platform enhancements and upgrades

Enough about us — let’s talk about you

You bring strong systems engineering fundamentals plus hands-on GenAI platform experience.

You’ll likely have:

5+ years’ experience as a Systems Engineer (GenAI exposure highly valued)

A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or similar (preferred)

Experience supporting platforms in mature, managed services environments

Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across diverse teams

Technical experience we’re looking for:

Core engineering

AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms

Linux/UNIX systems administration

Networking, databases, messaging and security fundamentals

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

CI/CD and DevSecOps tools (GitHub, ADO, ArgoCD)

Identity and security protocols (OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect)

Generative AI & platform experience:

Designing, building and operating AI chatbots and conversational AI systems

Hands-on experience with LLM frameworks (LangChain, Haystack, OpenAI / Azure OpenAI)

Building RAG-based solutions (document ingestion, embeddings, semantic search)

Experience with agentic and automation frameworks (n8n, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI)

Strong understanding of AI tooling: vector databases, prompt management, model evaluation

Integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms, APIs and workflows

Solid software engineering skills (Python and/or JavaScript) in production environments

Knowledge of AI governance, security and responsible AI in enterprise settings

Why Deloitte?  

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.  
We support flexibility and choice. We encourage you to find the right balance between connecting in person with your clients and teams and meeting your own personal needs.
We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.

Next Steps

Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!

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