Australian Data Centre & AI Infrastructure Jobs
Curated job listings across Australia's data centre, AI infrastructure and critical facilities sector. Updated 21 August 2026.
12 roles across 9 companies. Next refresh: 4 September 2026.
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Senior Director, Commissioning
AirTrunk · Operations · Sydney, NSW · Posted 17 August 2026
AirTrunk is recruiting a Senior Director, Commissioning, reporting to the VP Asset and Capital, with scope across Asia Pacific and Japan, India, the Middle East and emerging markets. The brief is to establish commissioning as a core lifecycle capability, defining the acceptance frameworks, standards and decision rights that carry a site from construction into resilient long term operation. Certified Strategic carried this role in the previous refresh from an aggregator listing, and it now appears on AirTrunk's own careers board with a posting date of 17 August 2026.
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Data Center Chief Engineer, AWS Data Center Engineering Operations
Amazon Web Services · Operations · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 17 August 2026
Amazon Web Services is recruiting a Data Center Chief Engineer in Melbourne as the primary technical authority for mission critical facility operations, reporting to the Data Center Facility Manager. The role covers electrical, mechanical and fire and life safety systems through planned maintenance, corrective work and emergency response, against a stated 100 percent uptime target. A core part of the job is directing and training Engineering Operations Technicians on generators, uninterruptible power supplies, cooling systems and building automation systems.
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Commissioning Engineer, DCCD Commissioning
Amazon Web Services · Engineering · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 28 July 2026
Amazon Web Services is recruiting a Commissioning Engineer in Melbourne for Amazon Data Center Commissioning, a role that builds, retrofits and improves AWS owned substations and data centres. The advertisement ties the job to a programme delivering a dedicated cloud for Australia's national security community and its allies, and says the architectural decisions made now will shape how that community operates for the next decade. Applicants must be Australian citizens and hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government security clearance.
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Data Centre Expression Of Interest VIC
Approach Consulting · Operations · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 20 August 2026
Approach Consulting has opened an expression of interest for a hyperscale data centre programme run by a global project and facilities management firm on behalf of one of the world's largest technology organisations. Rather than a single vacancy it calls for construction managers, QA and QC specialists, cost managers, project coordinators and integration managers across the delivery lifecycle. The advertisement is listed for Victoria while its body text refers to a portfolio delivered across Sydney, so candidates should confirm the location before applying.
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Critical Environment Technician
CDC Data Centres · Operations · Canberra, ACT · Posted 7 August 2026
CDC Data Centres is recruiting a Critical Environment Technician in Canberra, where the company is headquartered. The work is hands on in live data centres, monitoring and responding to alarms across power, cooling and fire systems, performing physical inspections and coordinating maintenance and site logistics during business hours. CDC describes itself as an operator of sovereign and secure facilities supporting colocation, containerised and hyperscale compute environments.
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Critical Environment Technician - Industrial/Commercial Electrician
CDC Data Centres · Commercial · Maddington, WA · Posted 14 August 2026
CDC Data Centres is hiring a Critical Environment Technician with a commercial or industrial electrical trade background for its new data centre at Maddington in Western Australia. The listing marks an expansion past the footprint CDC describes elsewhere in the same advertisement, which covers the ACT, New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand. The role is site based during business hours, covering planned works, maintenance, site logistics and incident response, with tailored CDC Academy training provided.
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IIS Platforms Facilities Manager
CSIRO · Operations · Canberra, ACT · Posted 20 August 2026
CSIRO is recruiting an IIS Platforms Facilities Manager to lead the operation, security and continuous improvement of the national science agency's data centre infrastructure, including power, cooling, cabling, security and environmental systems. The role leads a team of facilities and data centre operations specialists and owns the vision, roadmap, standards and operational frameworks for those critical facilities. CSIRO publishes the salary at AU$135,571 to AU$158,863 per annum plus 15.4 percent superannuation, with Canberra at Black Mountain or Melbourne at Clayton preferred.
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Data Center Critical Facilities Engineer
Equinix · Operations · Adelaide, SA · Posted 27 July 2026
Equinix is hiring a Critical Facilities Engineer for its Adelaide site, covering power systems, HVAC, building management systems, plumbing and fire control and suppression in a live mission critical environment. The listing describes a small team of two at AE1, where the engineer and the site supervisor work side by side across the technical, operational and customer facing parts of the job. Equinix says it prefers a strong electrical background from a mission critical environment but will consider a broader engineering mindset across disciplines.
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Data Center Critical Facilities VI (Shift lead)
Equinix · Operations · Sydney, NSW · Posted 25 July 2026
Equinix has two newly created Lead Critical Facilities Engineer positions at SY9, which the listing calls its first Australian hyperscale site. The shift lead owns their shift on a 24/7 roster of two day shifts, two night shifts and four days off, mentoring junior and graduate engineers and supporting the site supervisor. Equinix says the roles exist to reduce service level agreement risk on shift and to lift team capability through its Global Ops Academy and Bronze Badging programme.
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Chief Security, Sovereignty and Government Affairs Officer
NEXTDC · Security · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 24 July 2026
NEXTDC is appointing a Chief Security, Sovereignty and Government Affairs Officer to its executive leadership team, working directly with the chief executive. The role leads physical security operations and critical infrastructure protection, owns the company's obligations under the Hosting Certification Framework, SOCI and the Critical Infrastructure Risk Management Program, and carries the relationships with Defence, ASD, ACSC, ASIO, Home Affairs and law enforcement. The listing describes NEXTDC as an ASX 100 company operating 18 data centres across 8 major cities in Australia and Malaysia.
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Systems Engineer – GPU & High-Performance Compute
ResetData · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 23 July 2026
ResetData is hiring a Systems Engineer for GPU and high performance compute, a hands on hardware role deploying, racking, configuring and maintaining GPU servers and compute nodes across its data centre facilities. The advertisement names NVIDIA RTX6000, H200, B300 and GB300 nodes alongside direct liquid cooling systems and large scale storage and compute fabrics. ResetData positions itself as a sovereign onshore alternative to offshore AI models and names Centuria, NVIDIA and Dell as partners.
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Data Center Technician (12-Month FTC)
ViaSat, Inc · Operations · Southbank, VIC · Posted 19 August 2026
Viasat is hiring a Data Center Technician on a twelve month fixed term contract as the custodian of its physical footprint inside multi tenant colocation facilities. The work is inside the cage: structured cabling in Cat6, single mode and multimode fibre, blanking panel discipline, hot and cold aisle containment, and mapping every end to end cable path through to the facility meet me room. The technician also keeps the DCIM records accurate and monitors power draw per rack and available rack units to prevent over subscription.