About the role

The Red Piranha environment is a fast paced, security focused workplace, with the System Administrator (Hybrid / DevOps) / Security Engineer role having a strong focus on DevOps and cloud infrastructure, this role has significant impact on our growing enterprise environment. The role involves continuous assessment of priorities across a variety of operational and uplift projects.

Key responsibilities

- Support – L2 external L3 internal enterprise network
- Vulnerability and risk management – conduct vulnerability assessments and security scans, identify, prioritise and remediate security vulnerabilities
- Security Architecture and implementation – design and implement security controls and solutions for software and infrastructure
- Cloud and infrastructure ecosystems – design virtualize environments and secure cloud platforms and services, implement data protection, encryption and key management across EXSI and Azure infrastructure,
- ecurity Automation and continuous improvement mindset – build and maintain security monitoring and response processes, identify opportunities to strengthen security posture and reduce risk, using Azure, GitHub, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Jenkins/GitLab CI/CD and more
- Projects & Project management – to build our internal services and software, internal and client facing, as required
- Teamwork - collaborate with software developments team to streamline workflows, containerisation (Kubernetes) and operational tooling to embed security best practice
- Documentation - Maintaining accurate documentation of configurations




- Travel - may be a component of this role as needed

About you

- Bachelor Degree in IT preferred
- Proven experience in a Security Engineering role supporting the business-critical infrastructure, both internal and external stakeholders
- Proven experience with firewalls, VPNs, Proxy, IPS/IDS, Web content filtering, routing and virilization and containerization
- Experience with Agile Software Development methodologies
- Proven knowledge of Windows and Microsoft 365 solutions (Office, Teams, SharePoint, Intune, Entra ID), O365 Admin
- Strong experience with a wide range of Linux systems
- Experience with VMWare ESXi
- A strong security focus, knowledge of conditional access policies, and familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks
- Familiarity with network protocols, LAN/WAN/VPN technologies, and general network troubleshooting
- The ability to work independently and collaborate with a team as needed
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage with internal stakeholders, end users, and clients
- Strong problem-solving skills

Highly Regarded

- Experience with; Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub, Python, Bash, Powershell and Jenkins
- Experience with: Firewall, VPNs, Proxy, IPS/IDS. Linx servers
- Project management
- Formal Networking Engineering qualifications
- 2 years of experience in similar role

Clearance Requirements

- Australian Police Clearance or the ability to obtain one and maintain.
- Full Australian working rights (must have)
- Ability to obtain Defence clearance

Location

Perth

📌 System Administrator (Hybrid/DevOps) / Security Engineer (Perth)
🏢 Red Piranha
📍 Perth