Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer - RHEL & Puppet

Salary: $125 - $140 per hour

Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer - RHEL & Puppet

6-month contract | $1,000-$1,200 per day
Sydney | Hybrid working - 50% in the office

The opportunity

We're working with a major Australian financial institution undergoing a significant technology transformation across its critical infrastructure environment.

They are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer to join their Platform Engineering function on an initial six-month contract. You'll work within the Infrastructure Automation team, helping improve the stability, security, reliability and efficiency of a large, complex technology environment.

This is an enterprise infrastructure automation position rather than a cloud-focused DevOps role. We're specifically looking for someone with strong, hands-on experience across Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Puppet Enterprise.

What you'll be doing

• Developing and maintaining configuration management solutions using Puppet Enterprise

• Automating the configuration and management of enterprise RHEL environments

• Building and supporting infrastructure-as-code solutions and release pipelines

• Delivering software-defined infrastructure and automation initiatives

• Working with technologies such as Terraform, Packer, Ansible and vRealize Automation

• Integrating infrastructure platforms and automation tooling through APIs

• Following TDD/BDD practices and a red-green-refactor approach

• Improving infrastructure security, stability and operational efficiency

• Working with technical and business stakeholders to refine requirements

• Promoting the adoption of automation technologies and engineering standards

• Maintaining technical documentation and internal knowledge resources

• Collaborating within an Agile Scrumban team and enterprise SDLC

What we're looking for

• Strong, recent hands-on experience with Puppet or Puppet Enterprise

• Strong Linux infrastructure engineering experience, particularly with RHEL

• At least four years' experience across infrastructure automation, infrastructure-as-code, DevOps or systems engineering

• Experience developing and supporting infrastructure-as-code solutions

• Experience with Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Chef or vRealize Automation

• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools such as Git and GitLab

• Experience working with APIs and infrastructure integrations

• Exposure to Windows infrastructure would be beneficial

• Strong troubleshooting, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience working within a structured enterprise environment

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Experience within banking, government, financial services or another highly regulated environment would be highly regarded.

What's on offer?

• $1,000-$1,200 per day

• Initial six-month contract

• Hybrid working with 50% office attendance

• Work on large-scale, business-critical infrastructure

• Join an organisation undertaking a major technology transformation

• Take ownership of meaningful Puppet and RHEL automation initiatives

• Work within an experienced enterprise engineering team

If you're a senior Linux or infrastructure automation engineer with genuine hands-on Puppet experience, apply now or contact Martin for a confidential discussion.