Senior Cloud Automation Engineer — OpenShift & Kubernetes

Clicks IT Recruitment; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clicks IT Recruitment seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Automation Specialist) to design, automate, and support enterprise OpenShift/OpenStack platforms. You will drive platform reliability, observability, and efficient cloud operations in a large technology environment.

Lead automation initiatives with IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps practices, mentoring others while solving complex infrastructure challenges. NV1-clearance is preferred or required for this role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing complex enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, OpenStack.
• Experience with OpenStack, private cloud environments.
• Proven expertise implementing observability and telemetry across systems.
• Strong automation and IaC using Ansible, GitOps, ArgoCD, CI/CD pipelines.
• Advanced Linux administration skills.
• Excellent troubleshooting and stakeholder engagement abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage enterprise OpenShift/OpenStack platforms.
• Automate cluster provisioning, configuration, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Implement monitoring, logging, telemetry, and observability across cloud and container platforms.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation frameworks.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable infrastructure deployments.
• Configure and manage developer tooling and standardised development environments.
• Optimise performance, availability, and security of platforms.
• Provide technical leadership and contribute to best practices.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

OpenStack

Private cloud

Linux administration

Observability

Automation & IaC

CI/CD

GitOps

ArgoCD

Tools

Ansible

OpenShift Dev Spaces

ArgoCD

Job description

Clicks IT Recruitment seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Automation Specialist) to design, automate, and support enterprise OpenShift/OpenStack platforms. You will drive platform reliability, observability, and efficient cloud operations in a large technology environment.

Lead automation initiatives with IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps practices, mentoring others while solving complex infrastructure challenges. NV1-clearance is preferred or required for this role.