Cloud DevOps Engineer - Azure

- Azure DevOps - AKS
- New project starting 
- WFH available

About the company:
Our client is supporting a leading enterprise within the resources sector, delivering modern cloud platforms to enable scalable, secure, and high-performing business applications. This environment offers strong technical exposure to Azure-native services, Kubernetes, and private enterprise cloud networking.

The role:
We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with DevOps experience to support, maintain, and enhance an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environment hosting internally developed application platforms.
This role will focus on day-to-day AKS operations, containerised deployments, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and secure connectivity across private cloud networks. You will play a key role in ensuring platform reliability, performance, and continuous improvement following cloud and DevOps best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for scalable application deployments
• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot containerised workloads using Docker and Azure Container Registry (ACR)
• Support application connectivity across Azure private networking (VNets, private endpoints, routing, firewall policies)
• Implement and manage role-based access control (RBAC) for security and governance
• Configure and support Azure Blob Storage and ADLS Gen2
• Monitor platform and application health using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Container Insights, and Grafana
• Investigate incidents, analyse logs/metrics, and contribute to performance tuning and operational improvements
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for application and infrastructure delivery

Key experience:

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure across infrastructure, application hosting, and security
• Experience supporting Kubernetes environments (ideally AKS) including ingress, load balancing, and private cluster configurations
• Strong experience with Docker and container lifecycle management in Linux environments
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines (build, release, and deployment automation)
• Understanding of Azure networking and security (VNets, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, DNS, firewall policies, RBAC)
• Experience with Azure Blob Storage and/or ADLS
• Familiarity with Azure monitoring tools including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Container Insights

Desirable experience:

• Experience with kubectl, k9s, or similar Kubernetes CLI tools
• Exposure to Azure Firewall, route tables, and hybrid/private networking
• Knowledge of certificate management, secret handling, and secure Kubernetes workloads
• Experience with Helm, YAML manifests, and GitOps workflows
• Understanding of Prometheus, managed Grafana, and alerting integrations
• Exposure to Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, or governance frameworks

The benefits:

• Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale cloud platforms
• Exposure to modern DevOps, Kubernetes, and Azure architecture
• Collaborative and technically strong engineering environment
• Career progression within cloud engineering and platform reliability

How to apply: If you are interested and possess the right experience, please apply now via the link to be considered.
Contact: Laura Gilles – (08) 9423 1416– (Job reference: 270799)


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