LOCATION: QLD, ACT, VIC

12 MONTHS CONTRACT WITH TWO EXTENSIONS

NV1 SECURITY CLEARANCE MANDATORY

Senior OpenShift Engineer

About the role

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Engineer to design, deploy, administer and maintain its on-premises Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments.

You will support the availability, security, performance and resilience of platforms underpinning critical government services. This hands-on role involves managing the platform lifecycle, resolving complex technical issues, automating operational activities and supporting developers with containerised application delivery.

Key responsibilities

OpenShift administration and operations

- Design, deploy, configure and maintain enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability and operational resilience.
- Manage platform lifecycle activities, including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance and technology refresh.
- Monitor platform health, performance, availability and capacity, proactively identifying and addressing issues before they affect services.
- Manage cluster resources, workloads, operators, policies and supporting services in line with agency standards.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across OpenShift, Kubernetes and supporting infrastructure, including networking, storage, compute, certificates, authentication and cluster components.
- Plan and deliver platform changes in accordance with enterprise change, incident, problem and configuration management practices.

Automation and application delivery
- Develop and maintain automation for platform administration and operational activities using Ansible, GitOps and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Use tools such as Terraform and Helm to support consistent,



scalable and resilient infrastructure configurations and deployments.
- Support developers in automating the deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications through CI/CD pipelines.
- Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive tasks and improve platform reliability, efficiency and consistency.

Security and continuous improvement
- Implement and maintain secure platform configurations, authentication, authorisation and role-based access control.
- Apply security practices including vulnerability scanning and network segmentation.
- Analyse operational data, incidents and platform performance to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, disaster recovery procedures and platform management practices.
- Maintain clear technical documentation, operational procedures and platform standards.

Technical leadership and collaboration
- Lead OpenShift platform initiatives, contributing to delivery planning and managing technical timelines and deliverables.
- Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge to strengthen team capability.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application, architecture and business teams to investigate incidents, implement changes and deliver integrated solutions.
- Contribute to technical discussions in an agile workplace.




- Explain complex technical issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Technical skills and knowledge The successful candidate will demonstrate strong practical knowledge of:

- Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration, including cluster architecture, nodes, operators, workloads, networking, storage, security and lifecycle management.
- Large-scale, multi-architecture enterprise environments, including the administration and troubleshooting of integrated infrastructure.
- Supporting infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, load balancing, DNS, certificates and identity services.
- Container technologies, including container images, registries and application deployment patterns.
- Platform monitoring and troubleshooting, including logging, alerting, performance analysis and operational diagnostics.
- Automation and DevOps practices, including GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.
- Enterprise service management, including change, incident, problem and configuration management.
- Experience with Ansible, Helm, Python, Git and Terraform will be highly regarded.

MUST HAVE SKILLS:

- At least five years of systems administration experience, including experience administering OpenShift and/or Kubernetes clusters.
- Extensive Kubernetes administration experience, including networking, security, storage and troubleshooting within containerized environments.

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience working in an Australian Government or highly regulated environment, with demonstrated compliance with security standards and frameworks such as the Information Security Manual (ISM) and Essential Eight.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, or an equivalent certification.

📌 Senior OpenShift Engineer (Victoria)
🏢 SKL Technology
📍 Victoria