Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer

X-Team International Pty Ltd; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

X-Team International Pty Ltd in Melbourne seeks a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer to own cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and security compliance for critical digital resilience programs.

You will design, build, and maintain a cloud‑agnostic foundation focused on AWS Kubernetes (EKS), with 4 weeks onsite in Melbourne CBD and hybrid/remote thereafter.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience provisioning, managing, and scaling production Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS).
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform for IaC and Helm for Kubernetes package management.
• Direct experience configuring, operating, and integrating HashiCorp Vault in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Establish automated Terraform and Helm pipelines.
• Enforce strict vulnerability management.
• Partner closely with internal security teams to ensure releases align with strict penetration testing lead times and enterprise security governance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Vault

CI/CD

LaunchDarkly

Snyk

Security governance

GCP

Go/Java

PostgreSQL

Temporal

gRPC

Secret management

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Vault

LaunchDarkly

Snyk

Job description

X-Team International Pty Ltd – Melbourne VIC

As a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer embedded within a high-impact engineering squad, you will own cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and security compliance for critical digital resilience and open banking platforms. You will design, build, and maintain a cloud-agnostic, portable infrastructure foundation targeted primarily for AWS Kubernetes (EKS).

Key responsibilities

• Establish automated Terraform and Helm pipelines
• Enforce strict vulnerability management
• Partner closely with internal security teams to ensure releases align with strict penetration testing lead times and enterprise security governance

About you

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience provisioning, managing, and scaling production Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS)
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Helm for Kubernetes package management
• Direct experience configuring, operating, and integrating HashiCorp Vault in production environments
• Proven track record building CI/CD deployment pipelines utilizing LaunchDarkly (or equivalent feature flag tools) for progressive rollouts and feature kill‑switches
• Hands‑on experience integrating Snyk vulnerability scanning and automated patching tools directly into CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrated background navigating enterprise security policies, vulnerability remediation, and formal penetration testing frameworks
• Exposure to GCP infrastructure to support cloud‑agnostic portability requirements
• Operational familiarity supporting containerized backend services (Go/Java), PostgreSQL databases, Temporal workflow engines, or gRPC interfaces
• Strong commitment to declarative infrastructure, strictly avoiding manual environment tweaks in favor of version‑controlled modules
• Proactive approach to secret management, vulnerability patching, and compliance integration across all release cycles
• Available to commit to 4 weeks of onsite work within Melbourne CBD, with hybrid/remote following.