Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & Automation

Akuna Capital; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Akuna Capital in Sydney is seeking a Platform Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, improve efficiency, and collaborate with Trading, Development, Infrastructure, and Operations teams.

You will design and implement cloud solutions, automate infrastructure as code, and monitor hybrid-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Expertise with Kubernetes (EKS/on-prem), Spark, Kafka, and IaC is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
• Strong expertise deploying and scaling Kubernetes in production (EKS and on-prem).
• Deep experience designing cloud infrastructure on AWS; GCP is a plus.
• Experience with Terraform and IaC, including module development and state management.
• Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud solutions, automate infrastructure as code, and improve cloud governance.
• Provision, configure, upgrade, and monitor Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, and other large-scale data services.
• Automate infrastructure management and development pipelines with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab.
• Monitor systems and cloud deployments to detect errors and optimise performance.
• Maintain secure, highly available cloud-native platforms and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Cloud engineering

SRE

DevOps

CI/CD

Linux administration

Python/Bash scripting

Observability

Team leadership

Problem solving

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Kubernetes (EKS + on-prem)

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab

AWS

Cloud governance & security tooling

Python

Job description

Akuna Capital in Sydney is seeking a Platform Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, improve efficiency, and collaborate with Trading, Development, Infrastructure, and Operations teams.

You will design and implement cloud solutions, automate infrastructure as code, and monitor hybrid-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Expertise with Kubernetes (EKS/on-prem), Spark, Kafka, and IaC is required.