Senior Platform Engineer - Data and AI

Our Opportunity

Work location: Perth Office – Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people. Ad hoc site travel as required.

Roster: Monday to Friday

Summary:

Fortescue is transforming its business through data and artificial intelligence to automate, optimise and decarbonise operations across mining and energy.

As a Senior Platform Engineer within FIT – Data and AI, you will design, build and operate core platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and service reliability across cloud, operational technology and edge environments. You will create reusable patterns, self-service workflows and standard delivery pathways that help teams build, deploy and operate services efficiently.

This senior role provides end-to-end ownership of complex problem areas. You will influence technical standards and ways of working, partner with engineering, infrastructure, networking and security teams and balance long-term platform design with practical, incremental delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver reusable platform capabilities, standard delivery pathways and self-service workflows that improve developer productivity and reduce operational effort.
• Define and evolve reference architectures, engineering standards and non-functional requirements covering security, reliability, cost and operability.
• Translate business and engineering needs into platform roadmaps, presenting clear options, trade-offs and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Build and improve secure continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Automate environment provisioning and change management using reusable Infrastructure as Code patterns in Terraform.
• Operate and continuously improve Kubernetes-based runtime platforms, including OpenShift or managed Kubernetes, with a focus on performance, scalability and resilience.
• Embed observability and operational readiness through metrics, logs, traces, runbooks, incident response and root cause analysis.
• Partner with engineering, networking, security and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, compliant and supportable platform solutions.
• Coach and mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions and practical documentation.
• Lead through influence by setting technical direction, establishing reusable standards and driving alignment across squads.

Qualifications and Experience

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or equivalent industry experience.
• Significant platform engineering or DevOps experience delivering and operating shared services in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience designing and operating platform capabilities that improve developer productivity, reliability and service delivery.
• Proficiency deploying and operating workloads on Kubernetes, including OpenShift or managed Kubernetes.
• Strong AWS experience, including cloud-native services, networking and cost and operability trade-offs.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code capability using Terraform, with a focus on maintainability, automation and reuse.
• Experience developing secure continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or TypeScript, including experience building application programming interfaces, automation and integration components.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills, preferably across Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Ubuntu environments.
• Demonstrated ability to own complex problems end-to-end, influence stakeholders, mentor engineers and communicate technical decisions clearly.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.