Job Description

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- Initial 6-Month Contract | Competitive Daily Rate
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- High Performance Computing (HPC) | Kubernetes | DevOps | Infrastructure Engineering
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The Role

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This is a hands-on infrastructure engineering opportunity within a large-scale research computing program, responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting the core platforms that underpin high-performance computing (HPC) services. Working alongside architects, platform engineers, researchers, and infrastructure specialists, you'll deliver resilient, scalable, and secure infrastructure across Kubernetes, storage, virtualisation, networking, and data centre environments.

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This role is ideal for an experienced Platform or Infrastructure Engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and applying modern DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices within an enterprise setting.

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Key Responsibilities

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- Design, deploy and maintain production-grade on-premises Kubernetes platforms supporting high-performance computing workloads, including complex and stateful applications.
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- Build and support enterprise infrastructure across virtualisation, high-performance storage, Linux, networking, and data centre environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and operational resilience.
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- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automation practices using tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Git to deliver repeatable, reliable infrastructure deployments.
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- Implement monitoring, observability, security, and operational standards across infrastructure platforms, proactively identifying performance issues and ensuring compliance with security and governance requirements.
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- Collaborate closely with infrastructure architects, engineering teams, researchers, and vendors to deliver technical solutions, support project delivery, maintain technical documentation, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
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Skills & Experience Required

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- Demonstrated experience designing, deploying and supporting production Kubernetes environments, ideally within on-premises enterprise infrastructure.
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- Strong infrastructure engineering background across Linux, virtualisation, storage, networking, container technologies (Docker, CRI-O), and data centre infrastructure.
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- Experience implementing DevOps practices including Git, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Ansible, and infrastructure automation.
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- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or equivalent, with a focus on operational excellence and proactive platform management.
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- Strong problem-solving, communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with experience working collaboratively across technical teams. Exposure to High Performance Computing (HPC), research environments, or higher education will be highly regarded.
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What's in it for You

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- Initial 6-month contract with the potential for extension.
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- Clayton, Melbourne location with hybrid working arrangements.
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- Opportunity to work on one of Australia's leading research computing environments, supporting cutting-edge research through modern infrastructure engineering.
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- Join a collaborative, highly skilled engineering team where you'll work with enterprise-scale Kubernetes, HPC, automation, and platform technologies while contributing to meaningful research outcomes.
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