Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Cloud Automation

Zinfra; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Parental leave

Annual bonuses

Career development support

Employee referral program

Family-inclusive workplace

Job summary

Jemena is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and evolve our Kubernetes environment across AWS EKS, Rancher and GitLab. You’ll help development teams deliver reliable, scalable solutions with automation and strong security practices.

You’ll work with Terraform, ArgoCD, Grafana and other cloud-native tools to build a secure, observable platform. Collaborating with Agile teams, you’ll drive platform resilience and continuous improvement across the deployment lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Strong Kubernetes concepts and architecture knowledge.
• Experience with AWS EKS and Rancher platforms.
• Security mindset including secrets management and RBAC.
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• GitLab CI/CD for reliable deployments.
• Observability with Grafana/Prometheus.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve Kubernetes platforms to support critical apps.
• Drive automation and platform reliability at scale.
• Collaborate with development teams to enable modern practices.
• Improve observability and incident response.
• Operate secure, available cloud infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

GitOps practices

Agile product teams

Observability & monitoring

Cloud platforms (AWS EKS)

Tools

AWS EKS

Rancher

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Grafana

Prometheus

StackState

Kyverno

RBAC

Job description

Jemena is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and evolve our Kubernetes environment across AWS EKS, Rancher and GitLab. You’ll help development teams deliver reliable, scalable solutions with automation and strong security practices.

You’ll work with Terraform, ArgoCD, Grafana and other cloud-native tools to build a secure, observable platform. Collaborating with Agile teams, you’ll drive platform resilience and continuous improvement across the deployment lifecycle.