Strategic Infrastructure Modernisation Consultant, AWS Professional Services

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 Australias 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 customers 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 customers technology teams

About the team
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- 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

- 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.

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