Senior DevOps Engineer - Networking & Kubernetes (Perm/Initial 6 Month Contract)

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.

We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.

We’re looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer with strong experience across AWS, container orchestration, and core networking to join our engineering team. You’ll play a key role in designing, building and maintaining scalable infrastructure that supports our rapidly growing platforms. If you enjoy automation, cloud architecture, and working within high-performing engineering teams—this role is for you.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS following best practices.
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes clusters, ideally with hands-on experience in Amazon EKS.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI or similar.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Design secure and reliable network architectures including VPCs, routing, load balancing and firewalls.
• Monitor system performance, reliability and costs—leading improvements across the platform.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects and security teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in an on-call rotation (where applicable).

• Solid hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, IAM, VPC, S3, ALB/NLB, Route 53, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, routing and firewalls.
• Practical experience running Kubernetes in production; EKS experience highly beneficial.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Experience with Docker and container-based build/deploy workflows.
• Comfortable working with Linux systems and shell scripting.
• A passion for automation, reliability and performance.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within agile teams.

Nice to have:

• Dynatrace for monitoring and Karpenter for Kubernetes.
• Experience with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with security best practices in cloud-native environments.
• Programming or scripting skills (Python, Go, Bash).

Why join us: 

NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.

NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.

At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply. 

Agencies:

We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.

Work rights and background checks: 

To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks