A major bank in is seeking a Senior Cloud Kubernetes Specialist for a migration project. This is a 12 month contract likley to extend. Role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne - 2 days in the office.

You’ll work closely with application teams to modernize infrastructure, improve scalability, and drive cloud-native adoption.

Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and optimize Kubernetes clusters in AWS
Lead migration of applications from EC2-based deployments to Amazon EKS
Partner with application teams to containerize workloads and improve deployment pipelines
Implement best practices for scalability, reliability, and security in EKS
Automate infrastructure using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and performance issues
Drive observability (logging, monitoring, alerting) improvements

Required Experience




Solid hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, etc.)
Deep Kubernetes expertise (cluster architecture, networking, scaling, RBAC)
Experience migrating workloads from EC2 to Kubernetes/EKS is highly favoured.
Experience working directly with development/application teams
CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
Robust terraform
AI experience highly desirable
Kubernetes certification desired- CKA
AWS Certified Solutions architect – desirable

If interested please respond ASAP with your latest resume

Reference number: BH-61974-4

Company: Bluefin Resources

Date posted: 23rd Aug, 2026

📌 Cloud Kubernetes Eks Specialist Aws Major Bankjust Posted! Melbourne (Australia)
🏢 Bluefin Resources
📍 Australia