Cloud Kubernetes EKS- Specialist - AWS -Major Bank

A major bank in is seeking a Senior Cloud Kubernetes Specialist for a migration project. This is a 12 month contract likley to extend. Role can be based in Sydney or Melbourne - 2 days in the office.

You’ll work closely with application teams to modernize infrastructure, improve scalability, and drive cloud-native adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize Kubernetes clusters in AWS
• Lead migration of applications from EC2-based deployments to Amazon EKS
• Partner with application teams to containerize workloads and improve deployment pipelines
• Implement best practices for scalability, reliability, and security in EKS
• Automate infrastructure using IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Troubleshoot complex distributed systems and performance issues
• Drive observability (logging, monitoring, alerting) improvements

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, VPC, IAM, etc.)
• Deep Kubernetes expertise (cluster architecture, networking, scaling, RBAC)
• Experience migrating workloads from EC2 to Kubernetes/EKS is highly favoured.
• Experience working directly with development/application teams
• CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.)
• Strong terraform
• AI experience highly desirable
• Kubernetes certification desired- CKA
• AWS Certified Solutions architect – desirable

If interested please respond ASAP with your latest resume