- Shape secure, scalable platform engineering that enables data, analytics and AI solutions across Rio Tinto
- Work at the leading edge of DevOps, Databricks and AI enablement, improving automation, reliability and self-service capabilities at enterprise scale
- Permanent full time opportunity based in Brisbane or Perth

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable and reliable platform capabilities that help Rio Tinto teams deliver data, analytics and AI solutions efficiently. You will join an open, dynamic platform engineering environment where innovation, automation, and practical problem-solving are central to how the team works.

With a particular focus on data and AI infrastructure, you will improve developer experience and deployment performance through reusable engineering patterns, self-service capabilities and resilient cloud services. You will work across IS&T;, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Cyber Security and digital teams in our Product Groups and Functions, helping teams adopt the platform capabilities you build and continuously improving how they are consumed.

What you’ll be doing

Working in an open, collaborative and innovative platform engineering

- Shape secure, scalable platform engineering that enables data, analytics and AI solutions across Rio Tinto
- Work at the leading edge of DevOps, Databricks and AI enablement, improving automation, reliability and self-service capabilities at enterprise scale
- Permanent full-time opportunity based in Brisbane or Perth





We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate secure, scalable and reliable platform capabilities that help Rio Tinto teams deliver data, analytics and AI solutions efficiently. You will join an open, dynamic platform engineering environment where innovation, automation, and practical problem-solving are central to how the team works.

With a particular focus on data and AI infrastructure, you will improve developer experience and deployment performance through reusable engineering patterns, self-service capabilities and resilient cloud services. You will work across IS&T;, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Cyber Security and digital teams in our Product Groups and Functions, helping teams adopt the platform capabilities you build and continuously improving how they are consumed.

What you’ll be doing

Working in an open, collaborative and innovative platform engineering team within IS&T;, you will be:

- Designing, building and operating secure, scalable platform services that enable data, analytics and AI workloads across cloud environments
- Building and maintaining Infrastructure as Code,



CI/CD pipelines and release automation using tools such as Terraform and GitHub
- Creating reusable, self-service platform capabilities that make infrastructure easier for engineering teams to consume and adopt
- Improving platform reliability, observability, deployment performance and operational efficiency through Site Reliability Engineering practices, monitoring and automation
- Leading the investigation and resolution of complex platform incidents and service issues, including opportunities to introduce intelligent and self-healing capabilities
- Embedding secure-by-design controls, identity and access management, governance standards and maintainable engineering patterns across platform services
- Partnering with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Cyber Security, Data Science, Data Engineering, Product Groups, Functions, delivery partners and vendors to deliver platform outcomes and guide effective adoption
- Identifying opportunities to improve reliability, security, cost optimisation and engineering quality as Rio Tinto evolves its Platform Engineering, DevOps and AI Enablement capabilities

About you

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply, if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- Strong platform engineering and DevOps capability, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, release automation and modern cloud solution design
- Demonstrated experience designing, operating and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms an

📌 Senior Specialist Devops Engineer (Brisbane)
🏢 Riotinto
📍 Brisbane