Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer: Kubernetes & GPU Platform

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

Job summary

Firmus Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to own the Kubernetes platform across multi-cluster environments. You will design, build, and operate production-grade back-end services, with emphasis on automation, GitOps, and scalable infrastructure for AI workloads.

You will work on bare-metal Kubernetes deployment, cluster networking, storage patterns, GPU integration, and security governance while mentoring peers and influencing architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering with production Kubernetes ownership.
• Experience designing multi-cluster Kubernetes on bare metal/private/hybrid infra.
• Strong Go and scripting skills; Linux systems expertise.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Kubernetes platform reference architecture across management and workload clusters.
• Build and maintain backend services, APIs, controllers, operators to provision, configure, upgrade, scale clusters.
• Engineer bare-metal Kubernetes deployment and lifecycle workflows using cluster tooling.
• Design and operate cluster networking: CNI, ingress, DNS, load balancing, service mesh.
• Define storage patterns using CSI, Ceph, NVMe, object storage, backup and restore.
• Integrate NVIDIA GPU and related operators, telemetry, and topology-aware placement.
• Establish GitOps and CI/CD patterns for platform software and release management.
• Security governance: IAM, RBAC, secrets, policy-as-code, image security.
• Define SLAs and observability; diagnose complex distributed failures.
• Set engineering standards and mentor senior engineers; participate in implementation.

Skills

Kubernetes platform ownership

Go programming

Python

Linux systems

GitOps

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Networking (CNI, BGP)

Observability tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering

Tools

ClusterAPI

kubeadm

Redfish

Ironic

Metal3

CRI

Job description

Firmus Technologies is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to own the Kubernetes platform across multi-cluster environments. You will design, build, and operate production-grade back-end services, with emphasis on automation, GitOps, and scalable infrastructure for AI workloads.

You will work on bare-metal Kubernetes deployment, cluster networking, storage patterns, GPU integration, and security governance while mentoring peers and influencing architecture decisions.