OpenShift Platform Engineer - Secure Cloud DevOps

Leidos; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking an OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a secure, scalable container platform for development teams in Canberra. You will work in a Cloud/Infrastructure team to support mission-critical applications.

Key tasks include deploying OpenShift and Kubernetes, automating provisioning with IaC, and collaborating across security, DevOps, and apps teams to improve pipelines and developer experience.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift based container platforms in enterprise environments.
• Experience with OpenShift Networking and OVN-K, Ingress and Traffic Management, Load Balancing.
• Experience with OpenShift Storage configuration including OpenShift Data Foundation and CSI PVs.
• Linux system administration and cloud-native architecture principles.
• Automation and IaC using Ansible, Terraform, GitOps.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices and platform integration with GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain OpenShift platform services across complex enterprise environments, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with application, DevOps, cloud, security, and infrastructure teams to streamline deployment pipelines and improve the developer experience.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code and modern engineering practices.
• Contribute to platform strategy, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational support while promoting best practices for virtualization, containerisation, observability, resilience, and cloud-native delivery.

Skills

OpenShift platform

Kubernetes

OpenShift networking

OpenShift storage

Automation with Ansible/T Terraform

CI/CD tooling (GitLab/Jenkins/AzureDev

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking an OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a secure, scalable container platform for development teams in Canberra. You will work in a Cloud/Infrastructure team to support mission-critical applications.

Key tasks include deploying OpenShift and Kubernetes, automating provisioning with IaC, and collaborating across security, DevOps, and apps teams to improve pipelines and developer experience.