Australian Data Centre & AI Infrastructure Jobs
Curated job listings across Australia's data centre, AI infrastructure and critical facilities sector. Updated 10 September 2026.
18 roles across 7 companies. Next refresh: 24 September 2026.
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Associate Director, Security Programs & Assurance
AirTrunk · Security · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 1 September 2026
AirTrunk is hiring an Associate Director of Security Programs and Assurance at its Melbourne head office, reporting to the Director, Security. The role is the primary authority for physical security design assurance across the project lifecycle, running formal design reviews from master planning through concept, detailed design, construction documentation, commissioning and handover, and approving changes to security designs during delivery. AirTrunk asks for more than 10 years in physical security, security engineering, critical infrastructure or data centre environments, with an NV1 clearance preferred or the ability to obtain one for Australian based candidates.
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Director, Water Infrastructure Strategy
AirTrunk · Operations · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 7 September 2026
AirTrunk is recruiting a Director of Water Infrastructure Strategy to set and own the regional water strategy across its data centre portfolio, leading a team of managers responsible for utility connections, alternative supply options, water infrastructure delivery and site level optimisation. The mandate covers portfolio wide assessment of water stress, supply risk and regulatory conditions, executive partnerships with utilities and authorities to unlock recycled and industrial water sources, and defining AirTrunk's roadmap to water positivity. The listing asks for a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience and is based at AirTrunk's Melbourne office.
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Senior Services & Commissioning Manager
AirTrunk · Project Management · Sydney, NSW · Posted 1 September 2026
AirTrunk is hiring a Senior Services and Commissioning Manager for Australia, based in Sydney and reporting to the Services and Commissioning Associate Director at its Sydney head office. The role acts as building services and commissioning lead across multiple Sydney projects, running design review of mechanical, electrical and plumbing services through testing and handover to operations and customers, with occasional interstate and overseas travel. AirTrunk asks for at least 8 years as a commissioning manager lead for a data centre provider or in a commissioning agent role.
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Data Center Energy Lead, Australia
Anthropic · Energy · Sydney, NSW · Posted 28 August 2026
Anthropic continues to advertise for a Data Center Energy Lead based in Australia to secure power capacity for its expanding AI compute footprint across the region. The role leads energy procurement and markets strategy to secure multi hundred megawatt power capacity across the National Electricity Market, the Wholesale Electricity Market and the Northern Territory Electricity Market, manages transmission and distribution network providers and state regulators across multiple jurisdictions, and develops grid connected and behind the meter options that drive the fastest path to energisation. Anthropic asks for more than 15 years in energy procurement, utility development or power markets for large scale infrastructure, including experience with Renewable Energy Zones and congested NEM regions.
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Regional Manager APAC, Data Center Capacity Delivery
Anthropic · Project Management · Sydney, NSW · Posted 28 August 2026
Anthropic is hiring a Regional Manager for its Data Center Capacity Delivery team in the Asia Pacific region, based in Sydney, to own delivery across a regional portfolio of active and upcoming leased and partnered sites from deal close through floor access and operational handover. The manager builds and leads a team of Senior Delivery Managers and owner's representative partners, enforces schedule, quality and change control standards across the portfolio, and acts as the executive level interface to developer partners in the region. Anthropic asks for more than 10 years delivering data centre projects in senior owner side or general contractor side mission critical roles, and expects the manager to be on the region's sites regularly.
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Electrical Colo Regional Engineer, Colocation Regional Engineering (CRE)
Amazon Web Services · Engineering · Melbourne, VIC · Listed 10 September 2026
Amazon Web Services is hiring an Electrical Colo Regional Engineer in Melbourne, which the listing describes as an immediate opening in its Colocation Regional Engineering team. The role is the regional go to engineering resource for the colocation data centres AWS uses, reviewing vendor designs and submittals, acting as resident engineer through construction and commissioning, and leading troubleshooting and root cause analysis once sites are live. AWS asks for a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or a related field, more than 4 years in mission critical facilities and more than 4 years of commissioning experience, and the role was listed alongside a matching mechanical role for the same Melbourne team.
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Mechanical Colo Regional Engineer, Colocation Regional Engineering (CRE)
Amazon Web Services · Engineering · Melbourne, VIC · Listed 10 September 2026
Amazon Web Services has an opening for a Mechanical Colo Regional Engineer in Melbourne within its Colocation Regional Engineering team, providing full lifecycle engineering support to the colocation data centres AWS uses in the region. The engineer reviews colo vendors' designs for new data centres, acts as resident engineer during construction, commissioning and handover, and leads fit out projects as AWS expands its fleet. AWS asks for more than 4 years in mission critical facilities engineering and more than 4 years of commissioning experience, and lists a professional engineer licence among its preferred qualifications.
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Senior Electrical Design Engineer, APAC Substation Design Engineering
Amazon Web Services · Energy · Sydney, NSW · Listed 10 September 2026
Amazon Web Services is hiring a Senior Electrical Design Engineer in Sydney to lead the electrical design of its data centre substations across the Asia Pacific portfolio, as part of AWS Infrastructure Services. The engineer designs and manages high and medium voltage substation systems on concurrent projects across multiple regions and works with utilities, manufacturers, consultants and contractors from concept through construction, commissioning and handover. AWS asks for a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with at least 5 years of substation design experience, more than 6 years in mission critical facilities and more than 4 years developing design documentation for construction or permitting.
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Building Services Engineer (Mechanical)
CDC Data Centres · Engineering · Marsden Park · Posted 8 September 2026
CDC Data Centres is hiring a Building Services Engineer (Mechanical) to be based on site at its Marsden Park campus in Sydney's north west, working alongside the Construction Manager and Services Manager within the development team. The role coordinates the plumbing, electrical and mechanical services component of CDC's large scale data centre builds from initiation through delivery, including site inspections, defect and risk reporting, project documentation in Aconex and SharePoint, and support for commissioning plans and functional testing. CDC encourages candidates from senior trades with project management exposure to apply, and requires Australian citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 security clearance.
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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 the commissioning process across its data centre projects within the CDC governance framework. The role works with the Development team on project specific commissioning plans and provides oversight from design review and factory acceptance through completion, handover and operational readiness, liaising with customers, general contractors and independent commissioning agents. CDC asks for a minimum of 5 years as a commissioning manager on similar scale projects, familiarity with Aconex, Procore and BIM, and Australian citizenship with the ability to obtain an NV1 security clearance.
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Health, Safety and Environment Manager
CDC Data Centres · Operations · Maddington, WA · Posted 8 September 2026
CDC Data Centres is recruiting a Health, Safety and Environment Manager for its Maddington campus in Western Australia. The role develops and implements HSE policies, runs risk assessments and safety audits across CDC employees and contractors, investigates incidents and near misses, leads emergency response and supports performance monitoring against ISO 14001 and ISO 45001. CDC asks for a degree in occupational health and safety, a trade, engineering or a related field, and Australian citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain an NV1 security clearance.
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Critical Facilities Engineer (Electrical/HVAC)
EQUINIX AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED · Operations · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 10 September 2026
Equinix is hiring Critical Facilities Engineers in Melbourne, with the listing naming multiple roles: an HVAC and mechanical specialist for Port Melbourne and an electrical specialist for its Derrimut site. The engineers operate, maintain and repair critical and non critical power systems, HVAC, building management systems, plumbing and fire suppression, manage specialist vendors for major works, keep the critical spares register current, respond to BMS alarms and join an on call roster as first responder for site incidents. Equinix asks for a trade qualification or degree with practical experience of critical facility operations, and describes a weekday role at a static site with a salary package that includes shares, an annual bonus and a healthcare allowance.
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Data Center Field Service Technician
Firmus · Operations · Launceston, TAS · Posted 9 September 2026
Firmus is recruiting a Data Center Field Service Technician in Launceston, Tasmania, a hands on role covering deployment, operation, maintenance and repair of its HyperCube systems to keep site operations running. Firmus describes itself as an NVIDIA Cloud and Engineering partner in Asia Pacific, founder led, and building AI Factories designed to operate as assets to the energy grid. The listing asks for a diploma, technical certification or trade qualification, at least 3 years in a similar hands on maintenance role, an unrestricted driver's licence, and an electrical licence for electrical staff.
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Head of Electrical Engineering, AI Factory Development
Firmus · AI Infrastructure · Sydney, NSW · Posted 23 August 2026
Firmus is hiring a Head of Electrical Engineering for its AI Factory Development group, a principal engineer equivalent management role accountable for implementing Firmus's reference electrical design across every site where it is building an AI Factory. Reporting to the Head of AI Factory Engineering, the role leads a distributed team of site based electrical engineers across Indonesia, Australia and future markets, and is the escalation point for electrical issues in the field from tender through to energisation. Firmus asks for more than 12 years across hyperscale or mission critical data centre developments or industrial power systems, ideally with a bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering with a power systems focus.
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Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure
Firmus · AI Infrastructure · Melbourne, VIC · Posted 8 September 2026
Firmus is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure in Melbourne to join its Operations team supporting the daily operation and maintenance of its AI accelerated high performance computing infrastructure. Firmus builds and runs what it calls AI Factories, combining liquid cooling, energy management and AI software orchestration, and offers the Firmus AI Cloud GPU platform on top of them. The role asks for a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or a related technical field and more than 5 years of experience in field service technical areas.
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Commissioning Manager - Factory Acceptance Testing
NEXTDC · Project Management · Sydney, NSW · Posted 4 September 2026
NEXTDC is recruiting a Commissioning Manager to own its Factory Acceptance Testing program across the project portfolio, making sure switchboards, generators, UPS systems and transformers meet specification while they are still on the factory floor. Reporting to the Services and Commissioning Director, the role sets inspection scope, hold points and acceptance criteria, manages a panel of external commissioning agents who witness tests on NEXTDC's behalf, attends manufacturer facilities for first of kind equipment, and tracks non conformance reports through to resolution. NEXTDC asks for at least 5 years in quality assurance, factory inspection, commissioning or engineering in data centre, mission critical or heavy electrical and mechanical manufacturing environments, plus a trade qualification or a degree in electrical or mechanical engineering.
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Customer Service and Security Team Leader
NEXTDC · Security · Darwin, NT · Posted 7 September 2026
NEXTDC is hiring a Customer Service and Security Team Leader to run day to day security operations at its Darwin data centre, leading the frontline security team across all shifts and acting as the primary escalation point for incidents, service requests and operational issues. The role manages rosters with the contract security guard provider, oversees incident management and reporting, upholds front of house presentation standards and maintains audit and compliance records. NEXTDC says it welcomes applicants from non traditional backgrounds, and this is a new posting, listed on 7 September, following an earlier listing for the same title.
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Services & Commissioning Manager
NEXTDC · Project Management · Sydney, NSW · Posted 7 September 2026
NEXTDC is hiring a Services and Commissioning Manager in Sydney, a client side role that owns the delivery and commissioning of all critical equipment on its new build data centre projects. The manager develops installation and commissioning plans and program phasing, manages the principal contractor, service trades, equipment vendors and consultants through to handover, and leads safety across design, construction and commissioning in Uptime Institute Tier III and Tier IV environments. NEXTDC asks for at least 5 years in data centre or mission critical project or construction management, with a degree in construction management, mechanical or electrical engineering, or mechanical or electrical trade qualifications.