Location
Adelaide
Brisbane
Melbourne
Work Site
Hybrid
Employment Type
12 Months (Initial Contract)
Closing Date
11 Dec, 2026
AI Platform Consultant - OpenShift AI
Senior consultant to build an enterprise AI platform on OpenShift AI for an Australian Government agency.
Kestrel Eight is looking for a senior consultant to design and deliver OpenShift AI platform capabilities for an Australian Government agency, for 12 months from 1 December 2026 with a further year possible. Multiple positions are available. Adelaide, Brisbane or Melbourne is preferred, then elsewhere in Australia.
Apply Now The Role
You will define, design and deliver OpenShift AI platform capabilities as standardised, automated and scalable product offerings, helping the agency establish and mature its AI platform portfolio. The role gives technical leadership across enterprise AI platform engineering, turning emerging AI capability into secure, reliable and production-ready services. It spans LLM-based solutions, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, model evaluation and deployment pipelines.
Governance matters as much as delivery. You will help onboard, fine-tune and evaluate models, and put controls in place for harmful content, bias, toxicity and other AI risks. You will work with the agency’s AI team under the direction of its owner.
What You Will Do
- Define and build CI/CD deployment pipelines for enterprise AI platform products.
- Design and deliver an enterprise AI gateway that gives standardised access to approved models, with routing, authentication, policies and guardrails.
- Build and maintain an AI workload factory that automates provisioning of OpenShift AI resources and configuration for new workloads.
- Automate model onboarding, validation, deployment and promotion across DEV, TEST and PROD.
- Set up AI observability and monitoring, including dashboards, alerting, model performance metrics and GPU utilisation reporting.
- Develop and enforce AI security controls and guardrails through policy as code.
- Create reusable enterprise RAG services and deployment patterns.
- Develop AI application blueprints and templates for common use cases, including LLMs, RAG applications and AI agents.
- Deliver a standardised AI developer platform, with development environments, tools and connectivity to enterprise AI services.
- Implement AI usage, telemetry and cost management so model consumption and infrastructure use are visible.
What You Will Bring Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise platform products and reusable technology services, including:
- Robust experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes and cloud-native platform engineering.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of AI and ML platforms, model lifecycle management and deployment processes.
- Experience implementing monitoring,
observability and operational support frameworks.
- Understanding of enterprise security, governance, policy enforcement and compliance controls.
- Experience developing platform standards, templates and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills across technical and business teams.
Well Regarded
- Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures and AI application development (highly desirable).
Contract Details Detail Value Rate Competitive daily rate Term 12 Months (Initial Contract). Extension likely, with a further year possible. Location Adelaide, Brisbane or Melbourne preferred, then elsewhere in Australia Start 1 December 2026, subject to client onboarding Clearance Active Australian Government NV1 clearance, or one that can be readily reinstated
How to Apply
Apply with a current CV using the button below, or email
[email protected]. Only candidates who hold, or can quickly reinstate, an NV1 clearance can be considered.
Apply Now
Kestrel Eight is an Australian IT advisory and delivery firm. We place senior, locally based practitioners into enterprise and government programs across delivery, architecture, integration and platform modernisation.
Location
Adelaide
Brisbane
Melbourne
Work Site
Hybrid
Employment Type
12 Months (Initial Contract)
Closing Date
11 Dec, 2026
AI Platform Consultant - OpenShift AI
Senior consultant to build an enterprise AI platform on OpenShift AI for an Australian Government agency.
Kestrel Eight is looking for a senior consultant to design and deliver OpenShift AI platform capabilities for an Australian Government agency, for 12 months from 1 December 2026 with a further year possible. Multiple positions are available. Adelaide, Brisbane or Melbourne is preferred, then elsewhere in Australia.
Apply Now The Role
You will define, design and deliver OpenShift AI platform capabilities as standardised, automated and scalable product offerings, helping the agency establish and mature its AI platform portfolio. The role gives technical leadership across enterprise AI platform engineering, turning emerging AI capability into secure, reliable and production-ready services. It spans LLM-based solutions, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, model evaluation and deployment pipelines.
Governance matters as much as delivery. You will help onboard, fine-tune and evaluate models, and put controls in place for harmful content, bias, toxicity and other AI risks.
You will work with the agency’s AI team under the direction of its owner.
What You Will Do
- Define and build CI/CD deployment pipelines for enterprise AI platform products.
- Design and deliver an enterprise AI gateway that gives standardised access to approved models, with routing, authentication, policies and guardrails.
- Build and maintain an AI workload factory that automates provisioning of OpenShift AI resources and configuration for new workloads.
- Automate model onboarding, validation, deployment and promotion across DEV, TEST and PROD.
- Set up AI observability and monitoring, including dashboards, alerting, model performance metrics and GPU utilisation reporting.
- Develop and enforce AI security controls and guardrails through policy as code.
- Create reusable enterprise RAG services and deployment patterns.
- Develop AI application blueprints and templates for common use cases, including LLMs, RAG applications and AI agents.
- Deliver a standardised AI developer platform, with development environments, tools and connectivity to enterprise AI services.
- Implement AI usage, telemetry and cost management so model consumption and infrastructure use are visible.
What You Will Bring Demonstrated experience designing and delivering enterprise platform products and reusable technology services, including:
- Strong experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes and cloud-native platform engineering.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Knowledge of AI and ML platforms, model lifecycle management and deployment processes.
- Experience implementing monitoring, observability and operational support frameworks.
- Understanding of enterprise security, governance, policy enforcement and compliance controls.
- Experience developing platform standards, templates and self-service capabilities for engineering teams.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills across technical and business teams.
Well Regarded
- Experience with LLMs, RAG architectures and AI application development (highly desirable).
Contract Details Detail Value Rate Competitive daily rate Term 12 Months (Initial Contract). Extension likely, with a further year possible. Location Adelaide, Brisbane or Melbourne preferred, then elsewhere in Australia Start 1 December 2026, subject to client onboarding Clearance Active Australian Government NV1 clearance, or one that can be readily reinstated
How to Apply
Apply with a current CV using the button below, or email
[email protected]. Only candidates who hold, or can quickly reinstate, an NV1 clearance can be considered.
Apply Now
Kestrel Eight is an Australian IT advisory and delivery firm. We place senior, locally based practitioners into enterprise and government programs across delivery, architecture, integration and platform modernisation.
📌 AI Platform Consultant - OpenShift AI (Melbourne)
🏢 Kestrel Eight
📍 Melbourne