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XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd

Platform Specialist_Devops

XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

IT Services and IT Consulting · 51-200 employees

8 h ago
devops Senior (5-10 yrs) Contractor Australia
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About the role

The Senior DevOps Engineer will maintain, optimize, and scale infrastructure systems, with a primary focus on Kubernetes and AWS environments. They will collaborate with development teams to implement automation, enhance system reliability, and ensure security best practices.

What they look for

Kubernetes Amazon EKS AWS Docker Terraform CI/CD Jenkins Ansible Python Bash Go SRE DevOps Networking Security Vault

Requirements

Candidates must have 4-8 years of experience with deep knowledge of Kubernetes, AWS, and container orchestration. Proficiency in CI/CD tools, scripting languages like Python or Bash, and a strong understanding of cloud security and networking are required.

Full description

Job Description:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and scaling our organization's infrastructure systems. Your primary focus will be to ensure the reliability and performance of our infrastructure & DevOps, including Kubernetes, other critical components in Hybrid cloud environment. You will work closely with development teams to design and implement solutions that enhance system stability and automate operational tasks.

Key Responsibilities

EKS Platform Engineering:

· Design, implement, and maintain highly available and secure Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS, including node pool management, upgrade strategies, and disaster recovery.

· Ensure Kubernetes security best practices (RBAC, pod security, network policies).

· Configure Kubernetes networking, ingress, autoscaling (HPA, Karpenter/Cluster Autoscaler).

· Manage secrets and configuration (Vault)

CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible) to automate code deployment and infrastructure changes, ensuring safe, rapid, and reliable releases.

Automation: Develop and maintain automation tools and scripts (Python/Shell/Bash),Optimize deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling updates)

Observability & Monitoring: Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions to gain real-time visibility into system health.

Performance & Cost Optimization: Proactively analyse system capacity and optimize AWS resource utilization, balancing performance with cost-efficiency.

Security & Compliance: Implement security best practices, including RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and image scanning within EKS.

Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align infrastructure goals with business objectives.

Continuous Improvement: Identify areas for optimization and efficiency improvements within the infrastructure and automation processes. Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies to recommend enhancements.

Required Skills

Technical Skills

· Deep knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and container orchestration

· Strong experience with AWS Cloud

· Proficiency in Docker and container lifecycle management

· Hands-on experience with Terraform (preferred)

· Experience with CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.)

· scripting skills (Python, Bash, or Go)

· SRE & DevOps Practices

· Familiarity with incident response and on-call rotation

· understanding of networking

· Knowledge of security and compliance in cloud environments

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