Mid to Senior | Sydney (Preference), Melbourne or Brisbane (Hybrid) | Permanent

We're partnering with a Sydney based boutique software vendor helping organisations in heavily regulated industries with their AML, anti-fraud and real time payments capabilities, including tier one banking, financial services and government clients.

They're looking for a Mid to Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to join their growing infrastructure team, working closely with the DevOps Lead to support, scale and automate their high security, single tenant, on premise OpenStack private cloud.

What you'll be doing

- Maintain, troubleshoot and scale the core on premise OpenStack private cloud setting, including compute, storage backends and hypervisors
- Own and automate the data streaming and messaging infrastructure, containerising and maintaining high availability Kafka / messaging queue clusters
- Drive automated infrastructure provisioning through Terraform and Ansible
- Design and optimise CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD)




- Enforce least privilege access governance, manage identity federation (IAM, Vault), and implement automated vulnerability scanning
- Build and monitor telemetry, metrics and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk) to ensure platform reliability and zero SLA breaches

What you'll bring (non negotiable)

- Solid, hands on experience provisioning and operating within OpenStack
- Strong familiarity with Linux virtualisation (KVM, VMware ESXi)
- Direct exposure to event driven architectures, event streaming or messaging queues, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar pub/sub systems

Also valuable

- Strong IaC experience via Terraform and Ansible
- Pipeline and GitOps experience (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD)
- Scripting in Python, Bash or Go
- Experience in heavily regulated environments (Banking/FinTech, Government, Defence) or alignment with CIS Benchmarks/ISO 27001

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📌 DevOps Engineer (City of Sydney)
🏢 Jenkin Beattie
📍 City of Sydney