DevOps Team Lead | OpenStack & Private Cloud

Jenkin Beattie Pty Ltd; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jenkin Beattie Pty Ltd is seeking a hands-on DevOps Team Lead or a senior engineer ready to step into a 2IC role. You will lead a small Linux DevOps team, stay hands-on with infrastructure, and drive architecture while mentoring peers.

The role involves building and running OpenStack-based private clouds, designing automation, CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining secure, compliant environments for regulated workloads.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration in enterprise or service provider environments.
• Proven OpenStack deployment, operations and troubleshooting experience.
• Solid understanding of private cloud, hybrid setups and virtualization.
• DevOps capability across CI/CD, IaC (Terraform, Ansible) and scripting (Python, Bash).
• Experience in high-security or highly regulated sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and grow a small team of Linux DevOps engineers.
• Stay hands-on across infrastructure and platform engineering.
• Build, maintain and evolve OpenStack-based private cloud environments.
• Design and implement automation, CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Support secure, segmented environments with strict isolation and compliance requirements.
• Work closely with development teams to deliver reliable, scalable platforms.
• Contribute to platform architecture and continuous improvement.

Skills

Linux

OpenStack

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

Private cloud

Security/regulations

Tools

OpenStack

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Jenkin Beattie Pty Ltd is seeking a hands-on DevOps Team Lead or a senior engineer ready to step into a 2IC role. You will lead a small Linux DevOps team, stay hands-on with infrastructure, and drive architecture while mentoring peers.

The role involves building and running OpenStack-based private clouds, designing automation, CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining secure, compliant environments for regulated workloads.