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 robust, 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.

📌 Senior Infrastructure Automation Engineer - RHEL & Puppet (Sydney)
🏢 Talenza
📍 Sydney