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
- Solid 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)

If interested please respond ASAP with your latest resume

Reference number: BH-62753

Company: Bluefin Resources

Date posted: 27th Aug, 2026

📌 Principal Azure Engineer- AKS- Major Australian OrgJust posted! (Sydney)
🏢 Bluefin Resources
📍 Sydney