DevOps Engineer - Red Hat Quay

Kestrel Eight; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 185,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel Eight is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to stand up and operationalise an enterprise Red Hat Quay container registry for an Australian Government agency. The role is based in Canberra with hybrid work, for a 12-month term starting 1 December 2026.

You will lead design, configuration, onboarding, and governance of the registry, integrating with OpenShift, CI/CD pipelines, identity services, and security tooling, while ensuring compliant, scalable operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years administering enterprise container platforms.
• Demonstrated Red Hat Quay deployment experience.
• Strong knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, and image lifecycle.
• Experience integrating registries with CI/CD pipelines and identity services.
• Proven automation and infrastructure as code capabilities.
• Experience operating in large, regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment, configuration and operationalisation of the Red Hat Quay registry platform.
• Design and implement the registry architecture, including repositories, organisations, teams, access controls, retention policies and image lifecycle management.
• Deliver all approved user stories for the container registry capability.
• Integrate Quay with OpenShift, CI/CD platforms, identity providers and supporting enterprise services.
• Configure authentication, authorisation, RBAC, and image signing and scanning.
• Establish secure software supply chain practices, including image provenance and vulnerability scanning.
• Build automated onboarding patterns, templates and documentation for self-serve.
• Provide expert guidance on registry best practices and large-scale operations.
• Support testing, validation and production readiness.
• Develop operational procedures, monitoring, backup and recovery processes.
• Assist application teams with onboarding and migration of container images.
• Capture implementation patterns and lessons learned for improvement.
• Collaborate with infra, security, architecture and development teams to stay aligned with standards.

Skills

Quay

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Security tooling

Tools

Red Hat Quay

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GitOps

Vulnerability scanning

Image signing

Job description

DevOps Engineer - Red Hat Quay

A senior engineer to stand up and operationalise an enterprise container registry on Red Hat Quay.

Kestrel Eight is looking for a senior engineer to establish and operationalise a Red Hat Quay container registry service for an Australian Government agency, for 12 months from 1 December 2026. Canberra is strongly preferred.

The Role

You will lead the design, configuration, onboarding, integration, security, governance and operational readiness work needed to deliver the approved user stories for the agency’s container registry service, built on Red Hat Quay. You will sit in the agency’s engineering platform team and work under the direction of its director.

What You Will Do

• Lead the deployment, configuration and operationalisation of the Red Hat Quay registry platform.
• Design and implement the registry architecture, including repositories, organisations, teams, access controls, retention policies and image lifecycle management.
• Deliver all approved user stories for the container registry capability.
• Integrate Quay with OpenShift, CI/CD platforms, identity providers and supporting enterprise services.
• Configure authentication, authorisation, role-based access control, and image signing and scanning.
• Establish secure software supply chain practices, including image provenance, vulnerability scanning and container image governance.
• Build automated onboarding patterns, templates and documentation so development teams can self-serve.
• Give expert guidance on registry good practice, image management and enterprise-scale operations.
• Support testing, validation and production readiness.
• Develop operational procedures, support models, monitoring, alerting, backup and recovery processes.
• Help application teams with container image onboarding, migration and adoption.
• Capture implementation patterns, lessons learnt and improvement opportunities.
• Work with infrastructure, security, architecture and development teams to stay aligned with agency standards.

What You Will Bring

• 5+ years administering enterprise container platforms and container registries.
• Demonstrated experience implementing and operating Red Hat Quay in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, container image management and software supply chain security.
• Experience integrating container registries with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps platforms and enterprise identity services.
• Experience with vulnerability scanning, image signing and container security tooling.
• Strong automation and infrastructure as code capability.
• Experience operating in large, regulated, change-controlled environments.

Contract Details

Detail Value Rate Competitive daily rate Term 12 Months (Initial Contract). Extension not yet confirmed.

Location

Canberra strongly preferred

Work Site

Hybrid

Employment Type

12 Months (Initial Contract)

Closing Date

04 Dec, 2026

Start

1 December 2026, subject to client onboarding

Clearance

Active Australian Government NV1 clearance, or one that can be readily reinstated