Australian Data Centre & AI Infrastructure Jobs
Curated job listings across Australia's data centre, AI infrastructure and critical facilities sector. Updated 1 October 2026.
13 roles across 6 companies. Next refresh: 8 October 2026.
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High Voltage Site Engineer
AirTrunk · Energy · Sydney, NSW · Posted 2 September 2026
AirTrunk is hiring a High Voltage Site Engineer in Sydney, reporting to the Associate Director of HV Infrastructure and working across projects rather than one facility. The listing covers on site delivery of HV networks through construction, testing, energisation, commissioning and handover, coordinating contractors, consultants and network service providers. AirTrunk and NEXTDC are both advertising senior high voltage roles in Sydney this week.
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Staff AI Engineer
AirTrunk · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 28 September 2026
AirTrunk is hiring a Staff AI Engineer in Melbourne to design and deliver agentic AI applications and move them from experiment into reliable production use. The listing covers choosing the agent approach, giving agents context and memory, connecting them securely to enterprise systems and testing them against realistic tasks. This is an operator hiring to use AI inside its own business rather than to host someone else's.
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Cluster Operations Leader, Data Center Operations
Amazon Web Services · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 29 September 2026
AWS is hiring a Cluster Operations Leader in Melbourne to own operational performance across multiple data centre facilities, covering safety, security, availability, capacity and cost. The listing describes a leader of leaders role spanning data centre operations, engineering operations, logistics and decommissioning. Australian citizenship and an Australian Government security clearance are required.
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Construction Director, Data Centre Capacity Delivery
Amazon Web Services · Project Management · Sydney, NSW · Posted 25 September 2026
AWS is recruiting a Construction Director in Sydney for data centre capacity delivery, which the listing frames as managing some of the most technical and fast paced construction schedules it runs. The role is project based and sits where the work happens, with regular interface with leadership, partner teams and external collaborators. It is the most senior construction role on this week's board.
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Data Center Operation Technician
Amazon Web Services · Operations · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 28 September 2026
AWS is hiring a data centre technician in Melbourne for the dedicated cloud it says it is building for Australia's national security community and its allies. The work is hands on shift based infrastructure: deploying servers, running cable and fibre, and troubleshooting hardware and network faults at any hour. Australian citizenship and an Australian Government security clearance are required, the same conditions as the AWS cluster operations leader role on this board.
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Data Centre Commissioning Lead - Mechanical
CDC Data Centres · Engineering · Sydney, NSW · Posted 4 September 2026
CDC Data Centres is hiring a mechanical commissioning lead in Sydney to manage commissioning programmes across its data centre projects. The listing runs from design review and factory acceptance through to completion, handover and operational readiness, liaising with customers, general contractors, independent commissioning agents and consultants. CDC says it has operated since 2007, with facilities across the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand.
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Infrastructure Automation Engineer, AI Cluster Commissioning
Firmus · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 30 September 2026
Firmus is hiring an automation engineer into its commissioning team, building the software tools that carry a new GPU cluster from first power on through bring up, component testing and benchmarking to handover. The listing covers custom tooling for hardware bring up, firmware updates, system inventory and issue tracking, used by Firmus teams, partners and vendors working on the same site. It is a software job sitting inside a physical build, and the listing is explicit that on time delivery of the AI Factory depends on it.
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Network Engineer, AI Cluster Commissioning
Firmus · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 29 September 2026
Firmus wants a network engineer in its commissioning team to deploy, test and commission the interconnect inside its AI clusters, with the listing naming Ethernet from 100GbE up to 800GbE. The work covers benchmarking across multi node clusters, high speed storage fabrics and RDMA networking, plus diagnosing faults found during bring up alongside partners and vendors. Network commissioning at that scale only happens once the hardware is on the floor.
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Storage Engineer, AI Cluster Commissioning
Firmus · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 29 September 2026
The third Firmus commissioning hire of the week covers storage, deploying and benchmarking high throughput systems, parallel filesystems and large scale archive for AI workloads. The listing asks for scale out filesystem work and the monitoring tools that surface bottlenecks and abnormal behaviour before acceptance testing. All three Firmus roles are Melbourne based and sit in the same commissioning team.
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24/7 Data Centre Technician - Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders
NEXTDC · Operations · West Footscray, VIC · Posted 21 September 2026
NEXTDC is expanding its West Footscray team and encourages Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicants for this 24/7 data centre technician role. The listing offers full on the job training across cooling plant including CRAC units and chillers, electrical distribution including UPS and generators, cabling, building monitoring and fire protection systems. A mechanical or electrical trade background is the entry point rather than prior data centre experience.
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HV Engineer
NEXTDC · Engineering · Sydney, NSW · Posted 29 September 2026
NEXTDC is recruiting an HV Engineer in Sydney to provide national technical leadership across its high voltage network rather than to run one site. The listing spans utility intake, 66kV switch rooms, 22/33kV distribution, ring main units, transformers, GIS and protection systems, with ownership of the HV operating policy and AS/NZS compliance. This is design assurance and operational governance, the hire that follows a build programme outgrowing a single campus.
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Security Operations Centre Operator
NEXTDC · Security · West Footscray, VIC · Posted 23 September 2026
NEXTDC is hiring a Security Operations Centre operator at West Footscray for real time monitoring of high volume CCTV, access control platforms and security alarms in a live data centre. The listing covers detecting and assessing incidents, escalating to on site teams and emergency services, operating access control systems such as IDACS, and keeping incident records. It is the physical security layer a live facility depends on every hour of the day.
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Senior Manager, Data Center Commissioning
Oracle · Operations · Australia · Posted 1 October 2026
Oracle is recruiting a senior data centre commissioning manager based in Australia to lead its commissioning team across JAPAC and EMEA, with travel of up to two weeks a month. The listing centres on integrated systems testing and quality, setting Oracle's commissioning standard and working with colocation partners and developers to bring new sites to ready for service. That is how a cloud that leases much of its capacity keeps control of how it is built.