Network Engineer

XPT Software Australia; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

XPT Software Australia is seeking a highly skilled VMware / OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build and support enterprise-grade virtualization and container platforms. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, automation, scalability, performance tuning and lifecycle management across on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.

You will work across VMware vSphere, OpenShift clusters, Kubernetes and related tooling, collaborating with security and network teams to onboard new tenants and

Formación

• 10+ years engineering experience across enterprise networking or related fields.
• Hands-on F5 BIG-IP experience, covering LTM and GTM/GSLB, application delivery, SSL offloading, iRules, and traffic-management policies.
• Deep knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, VRF, NAT, and IPv6.
• Experience supporting production proxy or secure web gateway platforms.
• Experience with high-availability designs, load balancing, failover, and large-scale traffic management.
• Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and stakeholder-communication skills.

Responsabilidades

• NOCR new platforms( VMware, OpenShift, Backup and storage ) and handover to operations
• Onboarding platform to security controls ( Nessus, Pentest and Prisma)
• Remediate and fix vulnerabilities
• Onboarding assets to TPAM/Safeguard platform for privilege access accounts
• Tenant and host migrations planning
• Onboarding new tenants to the VMware /OpenShift platform
• Performance optimization and capacity planning
• LDAP/AD integration and UAM onboarding
• Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure
• Building new ESXI clusters/ servers

Conocimientos

F5 BIG-IP

VMware vSphere

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Networking protocols

High availability

Automation tooling

CI/CD

Linux administration

Vulnerability management

Monitoring tools

Cloud knowledge

Herramientas

VMware

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Git

Jenkins

Nessus

Prisma

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Descripción del empleo

Mandatory requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in telco, ISP, managed services, data centre, or large enterprise networking.
• Mandatory hands-on F5 BIG-IP experience, covering LTM and GTM/GSLB, application delivery, SSL offloading, iRules, and traffic-management policies.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SSL/TLS, routing, switching, BGP, OSPF, VRF, NAT, and IPv6.
• Demonstrated experience supporting production proxy or secure web gateway platforms.
• Experience with high-availability designs, load balancing, failover, and large-scale traffic management.
• Strong incident-management, root-cause-analysis, and stakeholder-communication skills.

Preferred Requirements

• Fortinet experience, particularly FortiGate/FortiOS, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer; Fortinet NSE or equivalent certification is desirable.
• Experience with telco-specific security and traffic architectures, such as Gi-LAN, CGNAT, SecGW, GTP firewalling, SASE, ZTNA, WAF, and DDoS protection.
• Familiarity with virtualisation and cloud environments, including VMware, KVM, OpenStack, AWS, or Azure.
• Exposure to SIEM, syslog analysis, monitoring, automation, and scripting, preferably Python.
• Relevant certifications such as F5 CA/CTS, Fortinet NSE, CCNP, or equivalent are advantageous.

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled VMware / OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build and support enterprise-grade virtualisation and container platforms. The role focuses on ensuring high availability, automation, scalability, performance tuning and lifecycle management across on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• NOCR new platforms( VMware, OpenShift, Backup and storage ) and handover to operations
• Onboarding platform to security controls ( Nessus, Pentest and Prisma)
• Remediate and fix vulnerabilities
• Onboarding assets to TPAM/Safeguard platform for privilege access accounts
• Tenant and host migrations planning
• Onboarding new tenants to the VMware /OpenShift platform
• Performance optimization and capacity planning
• LDAP/AD integration and UAM onboarding
• Manage VMware vSphere infrastructure
• Building new ESXI clusters/ servers

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years engineering experience across enterprise VMware platforms: vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX-T
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating OpenShift clusters (OCP3.x/4.x)
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containers, registries, operators and networking

Practical Automation Experience With

• Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Git, Jenkins / GitLab CI , Nessus, Pentest and Prisma
• Strong Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS)
• Storage and network fundamentals (NFS, iSCSI, Load Balancers, DNS, TLS)
• Experience with monitoring and logging (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)

Nice to Have

• RHCSA / RHCE / OpenShift certifications
• VMware VCP / VCAP certifications
• Cloud knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with Service Mesh, API Gateways or GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Scripting: Bash / Python