Cloud Engineer (Azure Kubernetes)

About the role

We are seeking a hands‑on Cloud Engineer to join a Tier 1 mining company in Perth. You will own the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform, ensuring clusters remain healthy, secure, and observable while delivering containerised workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Operate production AKS clusters – scheduling, scaling, and maintaining availability of business applications.
• Package, release, and troubleshoot Docker workloads using Azure Container Registry in a Linux environment.
• Design and support secure Azure networking, including VNets, private endpoints, routing, firewall rules, and RBAC.
• Maintain platform observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Container Insights, and Grafana; investigate alerts and optimise performance.
• Tri­age incidents, analyse logs, perform root‑cause analysis and implement reliability improvements.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for application deployment and infrastructure provisioning.

Required profile

• Practical, hands‑on experience with Azure infrastructure provisioning, security controls, and application hosting.
• Solid grounding in Kubernetes, preferably AKS, including Ingress controllers, Application Gateway integration, internal load balancers, and private cluster topologies.
• Experience authoring and operating Azure DevOps pipelines for build, test, and deployment automation.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure (AKS, VNets, NSG, private endpoints, firewall, RBAC)
• Kubernetes (AKS, Ingress, load balancing)
• Docker and container lifecycle management
• Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Linux operating environment
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Container Insights, Grafana
• Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Storage Gen2