Senior AI Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Firmus Technologies; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmus Technologies in Australia specializes in sustainable AI infrastructure and operates the Firmus Kubernetes platform at scale. The Senior Kubernetes Engineer role focuses on architecture, control-plane design, and secure, multi-tenant deployment across GPU-accelerated bare‑metal environments.

You will build production-grade cluster lifecycle tooling, observability, and GitOps workflows, while collaborating with AI Platform, Delivery, Networking, and Security teams to deliver resilient

Qualifications

• 7+ years in infrastructure, platform engineering with Kubernetes ownership.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the Kubernetes platform reference architecture across clusters.

Skills

Kubernetes internals

Platform engineering leader

Go or Rust

Linux systems

Networking (CNI, BGP)

GitOps / CI/CD

Security governance

Observability

NVIDIA GPU operators

Disaster recovery

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Argo CD

Flux

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Firmus Technologies in Australia specializes in sustainable AI infrastructure and operates the Firmus Kubernetes platform at scale. The Senior Kubernetes Engineer role focuses on architecture, control-plane design, and secure, multi-tenant deployment across GPU-accelerated bare‑metal environments.

You will build production-grade cluster lifecycle tooling, observability, and GitOps workflows, while collaborating with AI Platform, Delivery, Networking, and Security teams to deliver resilient