Principal Azure Engineer- AKS- Major Australian Org

Bluefin Resources; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Bluefin Resources in Australia seeks a Principal Azure Engineer with expert AKS experience at scale for a large container hosting project. Initially a 6 month contract likely to extend.

You will partner with platform leadership to set strategy, design resilient cloud architectures across Azure and (ideally) GCP, and build a GitOps delivery model with Argo/Harness. Strong Terraform and internal developer platform experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Deep production Kubernetes experience at scale (AKS/GKE).
• Azure experience in large enterprise environments.
• GCP experience highly desirable.
• Strong Terraform skills.
• Experience building/running an internal developer platform.
• Experience with GitOps delivery using Harness GitOps and Argo suite.
• Familiarity with microservice architecture and multi-tenant platforms.

Responsibilities

• Set platform technical strategy and multi-year direction.
• Design and deploy resilient cloud architectures across Azure (and GCP where possible).
• Build and operate the GitOps delivery model.
• Develop the developer-facing platform and self-service abstractions.
• Build observability and SLO tooling.
• Write production-grade Go and Python for Kubernetes operators and platform services.

Skills

Kubernetes (AKS/GKE)

Azure

GCP

Terraform

GitOps

Argo

Go

Python

Kubernetes Operators

Education

Cloud certifications (CKA/CKAD/CKS, Azure)

Tools

Harness GitOps

ArgoCD

Kubernetes Operators

Terraform

Job description

A major Australian organisation is currently seeking a Principal Azure Engineer with expert AKS experience at scale for a large container hosting project. Initially a 6 month contract likely to extend.
Responsibilities:

• Work with the peer Principal Engineer and platform leadership team to set the platform's technical strategy and multi-year direction
• Design and deploying resilient cloud architectures across Azure and ideally GCP, optimising environment for performance, security, and cost efficiency, and managing automation.
• Build and operate the GitOps delivery model
• Build the developer-facing platform experience and self-service abstractions
• Build platform observability and SLO tooling
• Write production-grade Go and Python - Kubernetes operators, controllers, automation and platform services.

Key Skills / Experience

• Deep, hands-on production Kubernetes at scale - AKS and GKE ideally
• In depth hands on Azure experience in a large enterprise environment
• GCP highly desirable
• Strong terraform
• Experience building / running an internal developer platform
• GitOps delivery with Harness GitOps and the Argo suite
• Cell-based / microservice architecture and multi-tenant platform design.
• Relevant certifications (CKA/CKAD/CKS, Azure)