Cloud & AI Platform Engineer

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Opportunity

Title: Cloud & AI Platform Engineer

Work Location: Perth Office

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is scaling up its AI foundations to unlock the next wave of value across both its Metals and Energy businesses. As a Cloud & AI Platform Engineer, you will architect, build and optimise AI, Python and Platform components that make our products possible. The role will sit in the core AI team and partner closely with Cloud, IT and product teams, you will ensure our codebases and AWS infrastructure remain secure, scalable and cost effective while enabling rapid experimentation with emerging AI services and GenAI capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the code‑base (predominantly Python) enabling AI functionality at Fortescue, setting coding standards and merging the (rare) hot‑fix quickly and safely.
• Support architecture decisions to strategically integrate new technologies into Fortescue's tech stack.
• Define patterns for integrating new tools, APIs and enterprise systems and reviewing cyber compliance.
• Design and maintain AWS infrastructure‑as‑code, extending Terraform modules to keep environments secure, scalable and cost‑efficient.
• Automate CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) to test, containerise and deploy code, and implement end‑to‑end production monitoring with alerting, logging and incident‑response playbooks
• Lead LLM best-practice: prompt engineering, embeddings, cost-control guard-rails and safe model usage.

Qualifications and Experience

• Solid hands‑on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM and VPC networking
• Experience with Python for scripting, automation or application development
• Production exposure to Apache Airflow or Dagster (or a similar orchestrator) for scheduling and monitoring workflows
• Confidence setting up CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or comparable tooling
• Comfort writing and refactoring Terraform (or other IaC) modules - managing multi‑environment state and safe roll‑outs
• Familiarity with modern GenAI / LLM stacks (e.g., OpenAI, Bedrock) including prompt design and vector search concepts
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent practical experience.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members 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. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ 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.