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🇦🇺Australian Startups · Sydney · Melbourne · Brisbane

The Senior GPU-Infrastructure Engineer You Can't Hire in Sydney — Live During Your Afternoon

Australia's tech skills shortage is severe. I am a senior MLOps and SRE engineer who runs 18+ production systems on Australian hours. Half the cost of a permanent Australian hire, with none of the recruiting delays.

Why Australian Engineering Leaders Hire Me

01

The skills shortage — I close it

You can't fill senior cloud, Kubernetes, and MLOps roles locally in Sydney or Melbourne. I step in with 6+ years of experience and 18+ shipped production systems, delivering Day 1 architecture inspections and written remediation findings within 5 business days.

02

Cost without the permanent headcount

Get senior AI infrastructure capability for roughly half the cost of a permanent Australian hire, with a fixed monthly retainer and zero payroll, recruiter, or visa overhead.

03

Real-time overlap, follow-the-sun

Pakistan is only 4 to 5 hours behind AEDT. I am awake and working throughout your afternoon, plus I handle off-hours incident response and deployments via follow-the-sun coverage from Asia.

Outcomes Delivered Across Production Systems

30–50%Cloud & AI Cost Reduction

I audit compute and GPU allocations to eliminate idle A100 VRAM allocations, cross-AZ transit tax, and un-cached vector queries.

99.9%+Measured System Uptime

Automated self-healing, Prometheus/Grafana SLO monitoring, and zero-downtime rollouts.

SOC 2 & APPsAudit-Ready Infrastructure

Compliant logging, encrypted storage, and Australian Privacy Principles alignment.

$40K+Documented Cloud Savings

Delivered across 18+ production systems on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

How I Work with Australian Teams

Weekly Async Standups on Melbourne & Sydney Time

Structured morning status updates, Loom walkthroughs, and scheduled live syncs on AEDT hours.

Documented SLAs & Proactive Incident Reporting

Single point of contact who identifies architectural bottlenecks and latency risks before they hit production.

Senior Engineering Candor

I review your architecture specs, challenge unviable assumptions, and surface real engineering tradeoffs before writing code.

Frequently Asked Questions · Australia

How do you handle working hours overlap with Sydney and Melbourne?

Pakistan is only 4 to 5 hours behind Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT). I am online and actively collaborating throughout your afternoon (1:00 PM to 6:00 PM AEDT), providing instant Slack responses and real-time pairing.

Are your cloud architectures compliant with Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)?

Yes. All AWS (ap-southeast-2 Sydney, ap-southeast-4 Melbourne) and GCP (australia-southeast1) deployments enforce strict data residency, encrypted storage at rest, and least-privilege IAM policies aligned with APPs.

How does your contract pricing compare to permanent Australian hires?

Australian senior DevOps and MLOps salaries average $160K–$200K AUD plus superannuation and equity. My fractional retainers deliver senior-level execution at approximately 50% of the cost of a full-time hire with zero long-term payroll overhead.

Hire the senior DevOps engineer you cannot fill locally

Book a free 20-minute infrastructure audit. Direct engineering analysis on Australian hours.

Book Free 20-Min Infra Audit

Stuck with a cloud bill that will not stop growing? Email: contact@hasanbutt.com