Senior OpenShift/Kubernetes Infrastructure Engineer (ACT, VIC, QLD)

Salary: $140 – $175 per hour

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Engineer to join a technical team responsible for managing and maintaining enterprise Red Hat OpenShift environments within a large Australian Government organisation.

The successful candidate will have extensive hands-on experience in OpenShift administration, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation and troubleshooting complex enterprise platforms.

This role involves maintaining the availability, security, performance and reliability of on-premises OpenShift clusters, supporting platform upgrades, implementing automation and collaborating with infrastructure, security and application teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, configure and maintain enterprise Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments.

• Design, deploy and manage OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability and operational resilience.

• Perform platform lifecycle management, including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance and configuration changes.

• Monitor cluster health, capacity, performance and availability, proactively identifying and resolving potential issues.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues involving networking, storage, compute, authentication, certificates and Kubernetes components.

• Develop and maintain platform automation using Ansible, GitOps, Helm and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.

• Implement and maintain platform security controls, including RBAC, vulnerability management, network policies and secure configuration.

• Support application teams with container deployments, CI/CD pipelines and platform integration.

• Plan and deliver complex infrastructure changes while minimising operational risks.

• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, architecture and development teams to resolve incidents and deliver technical solutions.

• Mentor junior engineers, share technical knowledge and contribute to continuous improvement.

• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and platform standards.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in enterprise environments.

• Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, cluster administration, operators, workloads, networking and storage.

• Experience installing, upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting OpenShift clusters.

• Strong Linux administration skills, particularly Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

• Experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible and scripting languages such as Bash or Python.

• Experience with GitOps, Git, Helm, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.

• Understanding of enterprise networking, DNS, load balancing, certificates, authentication and identity management.

• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and performance troubleshooting.

• Knowledge of container security, RBAC, vulnerability scanning and secure platform configuration.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

• Ability to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams in a complex enterprise environment.

Highly Desirable

• Experience supporting on-premises or air-gapped OpenShift environments.

• Familiarity with Australian Government security frameworks, including the Information Security Manual (ISM) and Essential Eight.

• Experience with enterprise change, incident and problem management processes.

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent certification.

• Experience leading technical activities and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications and Experience

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or a related discipline is highly desirable.

Alternatively, at least 5 years of professional experience in large-scale ICT environments, including 3 years working with Kubernetes in large-scale environments, will be considered.

Additional Information

Occasional out-of-hours support may be required for planned maintenance or critical operational activities. On-call duties are not a standard requirement but may be requested in exceptional circumstances.