Principal Strategic Infrastructure Modernisation Consultant, AWS Professional Services

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

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math, or a related field

Experience managing and delivering large-scale enterprise IT projects

Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (e.g. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)

Experience with software development life cycle (sdlc) and agile/iterative methodologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Knowledge of compliance and security standards across the enterprise IT landscape

Experience implementing AWS services in a variety of distributed computing environments

Experience managing executive customer relationships and key business stakeholders

Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (like TOGAF, Zachman) and identifying the relationships between business services, information, applications and global infrastructure assets

Experience with enterprise systems including SAP, Oracle, and custom applications

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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