OpenShift Platform Engineer — Build Secure Cloud Platforms

COMFORT SYSTEMS; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking an OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, deliver, and evolve a secure, scalable container platform for critical applications. You will work with cross‑functional teams to enable reliable deployments, automation, and platform improvements.

The role emphasizes OpenShift/Kubernetes expertise, IaC, CI/CD, and security practices, with a focus on complex environments and international collaboration within a defence and government context.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift based container platforms in enterprise environments.
• OpenShift Networking and OVN‑K, ingress and load balancing concepts.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, or similar.
• CI/CD practices and platform integration with GitLab, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Platform security, monitoring, logging, backup and disaster recovery capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain OpenShift platform services across complex enterprise environments, ensuring reliability and security.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, cloud, security, and infrastructure teams to streamline deployments and improve developer experience.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management using IaC and modern engineering practices.
• Contribute to platform strategy, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational support activities.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Automation

IaC

CI/CD

Platform security

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps

GitLab

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking an OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, deliver, and evolve a secure, scalable container platform for critical applications. You will work with cross‑functional teams to enable reliable deployments, automation, and platform improvements.

The role emphasizes OpenShift/Kubernetes expertise, IaC, CI/CD, and security practices, with a focus on complex environments and international collaboration within a defence and government context.