Role Description The Senior OpenShift Engineer is a full time, on-site role based in Sydney, NSW. This position is responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability, security, and performance across development, staging, and production environments.

Day-to-day tasks include configuring and managing containerized applications, automating infrastructure and application deployments, implementing monitoring and logging solutions, and troubleshooting platform issues. The role collaborates closely with forward deployed engineers, developers, and security teams to optimize workflows, improve reliability, and support continuous delivery.

The Senior

OpenShift Engineer is also expected to contribute to platform standards, documentation, and knowledge sharing, while mentoring other engineers on best practices in Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Qualifications

- Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes, including cluster design, deployment, and lifecycle management.




- Proficiency with container technologies and DevOps tools, such as Docker, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
- Solid understanding of Linux administration, networking, and security practices in cloud or hybrid environments.
- Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stacks) for container platforms.
- Ability to diagnose and resolve complex platform and application issues, and to optimize performance and reliability.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with experience working closely with software engineering and DevOps teams.
- Experience in forward deployed or customer-facing engineering environments, supporting AI, data, or software products is an advantage.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

📌 Senior OpenShift Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 balncs
📍 Sydney