Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer
X-Team International Pty Ltd · Melbourne VIC · hybrid
About the role
As a Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer embedded within a high-impact engineering squad, you will own cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and security compliance for critical digital resilience and open banking platforms. You will design, build, and maintain a cloud-agnostic, portable infrastructure foundation targeted primarily for AWS Kubernetes (EKS).
Key responsibilities
- Establish automated Terraform and Helm pipelines
- Enforce strict vulnerability management
- Integrate enterprise secrets management systems
- Manage continuous delivery pipelines using feature flags for progressive beta rollouts
- Partner closely with internal security teams to ensure releases align with strict penetration testing lead times and enterprise security governance
About you
- 5+ years of hands-on experience provisioning, managing, and scaling production Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS)
- Advanced proficiency with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Helm for Kubernetes package management
- Direct experience configuring, operating, and integrating HashiCorp Vault in production environments
- Proven track record building CI/CD deployment pipelines utilizing LaunchDarkly (or equivalent feature flag tools) for progressive rollouts and feature kill-switches
- Hands-on experience integrating Snyk vulnerability scanning and automated patching tools directly into CI/CD pipelines
- Demonstrated background navigating enterprise security policies, vulnerability remediation, and formal penetration testing frameworks
- Exposure to GCP infrastructure to support cloud-agnostic portability requirements
- Operational familiarity supporting containerized backend services (Go/Java), PostgreSQL databases, Temporal workflow engines, or gRPC interfaces
- Strong commitment to declarative infrastructure, strictly avoiding manual environment tweaks in favor of version-controlled modules
- Proactive approach to secret management, vulnerability patching, and compliance integration across all release cycles
- Available to commit to 4 weeks of onsite work within Melbourne CBD, with hybrid/remote following.