Senior DevOps Engineer

About Us

Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth – Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people

Roster: Monday to Friday 

The DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in building and operating Fortescue’s AI Platform and supporting a wide range of AI use cases across the enterprise. This role combines hands-on DevOps expertise with strong cloud and data & AI engineering practices to ensure scalable, secure, and automated delivery of AI services. The DevOps Engineer will work closely with AI engineers, data scientists, data engineers and the Cyber team to enable rapid, secure, and efficient deployment of AI workloads. 

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for AI platforms and use cases
• Build scalable CI/CD platforms across Snowflake, Azure, and AWS with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Embed automated testing, security scanning, and DevSecOps practices into delivery workflows
• Continuously optimise release processes to improve speed, reliability, and compliance
• Support Fortescue’s AI Platform to enable efficient model training, deployment, and operations
• Integrate AI/ML frameworks (Azure ML, SageMaker, OpenAI APIs) into automated pipelines
• Deliver MLOps/LLMOps workflows for model packaging, serving, monitoring, and lifecycle management
• Manage containerised workloads and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes
• Implement secure authentication, IAM, SAML, OAuth, and SSO with Azure AD
• Set up observability pipelines (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) for monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 10+ years’ experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering roles
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Solid cloud engineering experience with Azure and/or AWS
• Familiarity with Snowflake administration, access control, and integration into pipelines
• Proven experience in setting up complete CI/CD platforms for Snowflake. Azure and AWS, including automated build, test, and deployment workflows
• Practical experience with authentication and identity management concepts, including SAML, OAuth, and SSO integrations with Azure Active Directory and other applications 
• Knowledge of AI/ML workflows, MLOps practices, and model deployment
• Strong background in authentication, security, and compliance practices
• Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. 

Our Commitment

Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds 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 across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ 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.

https://fortescue.com/careers 

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.