Senior Infrastructure Engineer – OpenShift

Azooa | Services Australia | Contract

Help keep essential government digital services running for millions of Australians.

Azooa is seeking an experienced OpenShift engineer to support Services Australia’s on-premises Red Hat OpenShift platforms. You’ll combine hands-on operations, automation and complex troubleshooting with technical leadership and mentoring.

Engagement details

- Canberra preferred; Melbourne and Brisbane also considered.
- Hybrid arrangements may be considered. You must live within reasonable travelling distance of the relevant office and attend onsite for emergencies or business requirements.
- Estimated start: 1 January 2027.
- Initial term: 12 months.
- Senior – EL1 equivalent.
- NV1 clearance must be held before commencement. The RFQ summary says candidates must be able to obtain NV1; its additional requirements specify clearance before starting.
- Occasional out-of-hours support may be required. The RFQ lists a maximum of 80 hours per week; actual hours require confirmation.

What you’ll do

- Design, deploy, administer and maintain enterprise OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters for availability, security, scalability and resilience.
- Deliver installations, upgrades, patching, configuration changes and technology refreshes.
- Monitor health, performance and capacity; resolve networking, storage, compute, certificate and authentication issues.




- Automate platform operations and application delivery using Ansible, GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform or Helm.
- Implement secure configurations, vulnerability scanning, network segmentation and role-based access control.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security, architecture and application teams; mentor junior engineers.
- Maintain documentation, operational standards and disaster recovery practices, and drive continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring

- At least five years’ systems administration experience, including OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster administration.
- Extensive Kubernetes networking, security, storage and troubleshooting experience.
- Knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, container images, registries, platform lifecycle and change/incident management.

Highly regarded

- Government or regulated-workplace experience, including ISM and Essential 8.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent.
- Skills across Ansible, Helm, Python, CI/CD and Git.
- A relevant degree, or at least five years’ large-scale ICT experience plus three years in large-scale Kubernetes environments.

Apply via the application button with your updated CV.

Reference: LH-08236

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📌 OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer (Melbourne)
🏢 Azooa
📍 Melbourne