Why this role stands out
This Platform Specialist role offers a fantastic opportunity to enhance your Kubernetes and CI/CD expertise within a reputable software services company that serves top clients across diverse industries. You'll thrive here if you are a driven DevOps professional eager to contribute to infrastructure optimization and automation, making a real impact on system reliability and performance. Join a global team and elevate your career in a dynamic environment.
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Job description
XPT Software Australia Pty Ltd Contract
Sydney, Australia Posted on 10/16/2026
- XPT SoftwareAustralia PTY Ltd, incorporated in 2016, is a Software Services company
- XPT works with topclients across Australia in Banking, Insurance, Telecom,Retail, Energy, Mining and Manufacturingdomains.
- We have 120+technocrats in Australia working at our clientlocations.
- XPT SoftwareAustralia is part of group companies which has globalpresence across India & Europe.
- We have served100+ clients globally, fulfilling their onsite-offshoreneeds.
JobDescription:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer,you will be responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and scaling ourorganization's infrastructure systems. Your primary focus will be to ensure thereliability and performance of our infrastructure & DevOps, includingKubernetes, other critical components in Hybrid cloud environment. You willwork closely with development teams to design and implement solutions that enhancesystem stability and automate operational tasks.
Key Responsibilities- 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).
- 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 analyzes 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.
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.)
- Familiarity with incident response and on-call rotation
- understanding of networking
- Knowledge of security and compliance in cloud environments
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