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 workplace
GCP highly desirable
Strong 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)
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📌 Principal Azure Engineer- Aks- Major Australian Org (New South Wales)
🏢 Bluefin Resources
📍 New South Wales