Senior Hybrid Infra Architect: OpenShift & Cloud

Optus Enterprise; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 200,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Flexible working – 3 days in office, 2

Employee discounts

On-site childcare

Diversity and inclusion programs

Job summary

Optus is seeking a Principal, Critical Network Platforms to lead the design and hands-on delivery of scalable, secure hybrid infrastructure. You will define architecture standards, govern implementations across on‑prem, private cloud (OpenShift, Proxmox) and public cloud (AWS, GCP), and mentor senior engineers to uplift capabilities.

You will drive IaC, CI/CD pipelines, networking governance and security controls, while shaping engineering playbooks and design guides for the IP Network

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience building/architecting production hybrid infrastructure.
• BSS/ Server provisioning, hardware lifecycle, firmware governance.
• Experience with OpenShift container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define, govern and maintain hybrid infrastructure architecture patterns.
• Lead infrastructure design reviews and assurance.
• Architect and manage on-premises compute platforms and data centre capacity.
• Design, deploy and operate OpenShift environments.
• Architect IaC frameworks using Terraform and Ansible.
• Build and evolve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure delivery.
• Architect cloud/hybrid networking constructs.

Skills

Strong communication

Mentoring

Documentation

Problem solving

Autonomy

Education

Tertiary qualification in relevant discipline

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

OpenShift

Proxmox VE

AWS

GCP

GitLab CI/CD

GitOps

Ceph

ZFS

Grafana

Prometheus

Elasticsearch

Job description

Optus is seeking a Principal, Critical Network Platforms to lead the design and hands-on delivery of scalable, secure hybrid infrastructure. You will define architecture standards, govern implementations across on‑prem, private cloud (OpenShift, Proxmox) and public cloud (AWS, GCP), and mentor senior engineers to uplift capabilities.

You will drive IaC, CI/CD pipelines, networking governance and security controls, while shaping engineering playbooks and design guides for the IP Network