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

- Robust 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

📌 Principal Azure Engineer- Kubernetes (Sydney)
🏢 Bluefin Resources Pty
📍 Sydney