Openshift Engineer - Large Australian Org - 12 month contract

Bluefin Resources Pty; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A major bank is seeking an OpenShift Engineer for an initial 12‑month contract, with a likely extension. The role can be based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Brisbane, with two days per week in the office and hybrid work expectations.

You will manage OpenShift clusters on bare metal and VMware, drive upgrades and automation, and collaborate with application teams to onboard workloads. The role emphasizes reliability, security and performance as demand grows.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on OpenShift infrastructure experience including deployment, administration and troubleshooting.
• Experience resolving issues across storage, networking, compute and platform stability.
• Core engineering mindset with ability to investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex issues.
• Exposure to on-premise or hybrid environments including bare-metal and VMware.
• Ability to support internal application teams through onboarding onto the OpenShift platform.
• OpenShift AI or AI infrastructure exposure would be a differentiator.
• Experience with GPU-based or bare-metal infrastructure for AI workloads is valuable.
• Cloud background acceptable with strong fundamentals and fast adaptation to on-premise infra.
• Experience with IBM Cloud Pak or complex enterprise deployments would be useful.

Responsibilities

• Work across OpenShift environments currently on bare metal and VMware, with future direction toward bare metal.
• Support customer/application teams through deployment, platform readiness, and troubleshooting activities.
• Manage and maintain the OpenShift container platform, including cluster installation, configuration, upgrades, and ongoing administration.
• Support a major containerised deployment project, including onboarding and migration of large workloads into OpenShift.
• Automate platform and operational tasks using Ansible, GitOps, scripting, and other automation technologies.
• Work closely with project and application teams to deploy containerised workloads onto OpenShift.
• Implement and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Contribute to stability, scalability, security, and performance of the OpenShift environment as workloads increase.

Skills

OpenShift infrastructure

Container orchestration

Troubleshooting

Hybrid/on‑premise infra

Automation & scripting

Engineering problem solving

AI infrastructure exposure

Onboarding workloads

GPU/AI workloads support

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Ansible

GitOps

Scripting (bash/python)

VMware

IBM Cloud Pak

Job description

A major bank is seeking an OpenShift Engineer for an initial 12 month contract likely to extend.

Role can be based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Brisbane. 2 days a week in the office

Key Responsibilities

• Work across OpenShift environments currently running on bare metal and VMware, with future direction moving further toward bare metal
• Support customer/application teams through deployment, platform readiness, and troubleshooting activities.
• Manage and maintain the OpenShift container platform, including cluster installation, configuration, upgrades, and ongoing administration.
• Support a major containerised deployment project, including the onboarding and migration of a large workload into OpenShift.
• Automate platform and operational tasks using Ansible, GitOps, scripting, and other automation technologies.
• Work closely with project and application teams to facilitate the deployment and onboarding of containerised workloads onto the OpenShift platform.
• Implement and maintain logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Contribute to the stability, scalability, security, and performance of the OpenShift environment as workloads increase.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on OpenShift infrastructure experience, ideally including deployment, administration, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Practical experience resolving infrastructure issues across storage, networking, compute, and platform stability.
• Core engineering mindset with the ability to investigate, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues.
• Exposure to on-premise or hybrid infrastructure environments, including bare-metal and VMware-based deployments.
• Ability to support internal application teams through onboarding onto the OpenShift platform.
• OpenShift AI or AI infrastructure exposure would be a major differentiator.
• Experience with GPU-based or bare-metal infrastructure would be valuable, particularly in support of LLM or AI workloads.
• Cloud background is acceptable if the candidate has strong engineering fundamentals and can adapt quickly to on-premise infrastructure.
• Experience with IBM Cloud Pak or complex enterprise application deployments would be useful.