Cloud Security Engineer & System Administrator (DevOps)

Red Piranha; Western Australia; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Red Piranha is seeking a System Administrator (Hybrid / DevOps) / Security Engineer to strengthen our cloud infrastructure and security posture. You will balance ongoing operations with uplift projects across Windows and Linux environments, VMware ESXi, and containerized workloads.

The role emphasizes DevOps practices, automation, and collaboration with software teams to embed security best practices using Azure, GitHub, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Jenkins and related tools in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in IT preferred.
• Proven experience in a Security Engineering role supporting business-critical infrastructure.
• Experience with firewalls, VPNs, Proxy, IPS/IDS, Web content filtering, routing and virtualization 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.
• Strong security focus and familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks.
• Familiarity with network protocols, LAN/WAN/VPN technologies, and general network troubleshooting.
• Ability to work independently and with a team.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Support – L2 external L3 internal enterprise network
• Vulnerability and risk management – conduct vulnerability assessments and security scans, identify, prioritise and remediate 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
• Security 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

Skills

DevOps

Security engineering

Cloud platforms

Linux systems

Windows systems

VMware ESXi

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting

Education

Bachelor Degree in IT

Tools

GitHub

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Red Piranha is seeking a System Administrator (Hybrid / DevOps) / Security Engineer to strengthen our cloud infrastructure and security posture. You will balance ongoing operations with uplift projects across Windows and Linux environments, VMware ESXi, and containerized workloads.

The role emphasizes DevOps practices, automation, and collaboration with software teams to embed security best practices using Azure, GitHub, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Jenkins and related tools in a fast-paced