Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: $130 - $150 p/h

Closing Date: 2pm Monday 26 October 2026
face2face reference: 679948
Locations: Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra
Contract Duration:12 Months + Up to a maximum of 24 months

Why Join?

• Shape the future of enterprise cloud infrastructure through automation and innovation
• Work with cutting-edge technologies including Red Hat OpenShift and OpenStack
• Drive efficiency by automating infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes
• Build expertise in observability, telemetry and modern cloud platforms
• Streamline developer workflows with automated tooling and CI/CD pipelines
• Tackle complex technical challenges in large-scale enterprise environments

About the Role

As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Automation Specialist), you'll design, deploy and manage enterprise-scale OpenShift and OpenStack infrastructure, develop automation solutions, implement end-to-end observability, and streamline developer experiences to support reliable, scalable digital services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and automate the provisioning and scaling of OpenShift and OpenStack clusters
• Implement and maintain telemetry pipelines, instrumentation and collectors across infrastructure environments
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code, automation scripts and deployment playbooks
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency and consistency
• Monitor and optimise application and infrastructure performance across cloud platforms
• Configure and manage developer tooling, including cloud IDEs and OpenShift Dev Spaces

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience with enterprise-scale container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of OpenStack, private cloud infrastructure, virtualisation and Linux administration
• Demonstrated expertise in telemetry, observability, instrumentation and data collection pipelines
• Hands-on experience developing automation scripts, infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience integrating monitoring solutions across complex infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with developer workspace tooling, such as OpenShift Dev Spaces, and relevant platform certifications is advantageous

Australian Citizenship & ability to obtain Negative Vetting 1 security clearance is a mandatory requirement for this position.

If you have any questions or would like more details, don’t hesitate to reach out to Maddy Farrell at 0489 267 607 or email maddy.farrell@f2frecruitment.com.au