Azure Devops Engineer- AKS- Major Bank - Syd/ Melb

Bluefin Resources; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A major bank in Australia is seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer to join a customer reliability engineering team on a permanent basis. The role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne and requires you to work in the office 2 days a week.

You will build reliable, automated and scalable cloud platforms focusing on AKS, CI/CD, and Terraform, while collaborating with platform, engineering and reliability teams to uplift automation maturity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure cloud engineering experience with AKS.
• Terraform and IaC experience for building scalable platforms.
• Experience in SRE or platform engineering is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, automate and support Azure cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on AKS.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable, repeatable delivery.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Contribute to customer reliability engineering outcomes, improving resilience, availability and performance.
• Work closely with platform, engineering and reliability teams to uplift automation and operational maturity.
• Apply strong engineering practices to solve platform challenges, avoiding manual or reactive operations where automation is possible.

Skills

Azure cloud

AKS

Automation

Terraform / IaC

SRE / Platform engineering

Banking/enterprise exposure

Job description

A major bank is seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer with strong AKS expertise to join a customer reliability engineering team on a permanent basis. The role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne and requires you to work in the office 2 days a week.

This role will suit a hands‑on cloud engineer who is passionate about building reliable, automated and scalable platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Engineer, automate and support Azure cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on AKS.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable reliable, repeatable and secure delivery.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Contribute to customer reliability engineering outcomes, improving resilience, availability and performance.
• Work closely with platform, engineering and reliability teams to uplift automation and operational maturity.
• Apply strong engineering practices to solve platform challenges, avoiding manual or reactive operations where automation is possible.

A major bank is seeking an Azure DevOps Engineer with strong AKS expertise to join a customer reliability engineering team on a permanent basis. The role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne and requires you to work in the office 2 days a week.

This role will suit a hands‑on cloud engineer who is passionate about building reliable, automated and scalable platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Engineer, automate and support Azure cloud infrastructure with a strong focus on AKS.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable reliable, repeatable and secure delivery.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Contribute to customer reliability engineering outcomes, improving resilience, availability and performance.
• Work closely with platform, engineering and reliability teams to uplift automation and operational maturity.
• Apply strong engineering practices to solve platform challenges, avoiding manual or reactive operations where automation is possible.

Key Skills / Experience

• Strong hands‑on Azure cloud engineering experience.
• Deep AKS experience, including platform build, administration, troubleshooting and optimisation.
• Solid automation and engineering capability across cloud infrastructure environments.
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience working in an SRE, reliability engineering or platform engineering environment is highly desirable.
• Background in large enterprise environments; experience within a top-tier banking or financial services environment will be highly regarded.
• A practical engineering mindset
• Cloud managed services experience and/ banking experience is highly desirable
• SRE / Finops