Network Engineer

XPT Software; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

XPT Software is seeking a VMware/OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build and support enterprise virtualization and container platforms. You will ensure high availability, automation, and lifecycle management across on‑prem and hybrid cloud environments.

You will work on onboarding, security controls, vulnerability remediation, and capacity planning while integrating with TPAM/Safeguard and tenant migrations. Strong Linux and networking skills are essential.

Formación

• 5+ years engineering experience across enterprise VMware platforms, including vSphere/ESXi/vCenter/vSAN.
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• Hands-on OpenShift deployment and operation experience.

Responsabilidades

• Architect, build and support enterprise VMware/OpenShift platforms with HA and scalability.

Conocimientos

VMware vSphere

ESXi

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Containers

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Git

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Nessus

Prisma

Linux (RHEL/CentOS)

Networking fundamentals

Storage fundamentals

Monitoring (Prometheus)

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Herramientas

VMware

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Git

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Descripción del empleo

Network Engineer

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.

3. Role SummarWe 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