Senior Infrastructure Engineer | OpenShift / Kubernetes | NV1 | ACT/VIC/QLD

Hope IT Consulting; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 179,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Hope IT Consulting is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to support enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments for a Federal Government engagement. The role is hands-on, focusing on administering and improving on-premises container platforms while collaborating with infrastructure, security, application and architecture teams to ensure availability, security and performance.

Contract is 12 months with extension options up to 24 months.

Qualifications

• At least five years of systems administration experience, including OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster administration.
• Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting and capacity planning for container platforms.
• Knowledge of security best practices, identity services and platform access controls.

Responsibilities

• Administer OpenShift clusters: installation, configuration, upgrades, patching and ongoing maintenance.
• Monitor platform health, performance and capacity; troubleshoot networking, storage, compute, and cluster issues.
• Automate operations with Ansible, GitOps, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines; support deployments.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

DevOps

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Tools

Helm

Terraform

Python

Job description

Hope IT Consulting is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a Federal Government engagement supporting enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.

This is a hands-on role focused on administering, maintaining and improving on-premises container platforms. You will work with infrastructure, security, application and architecture teams to maintain platform availability, security and performance.

Contract: 12 months, with extension options of up to 24 months

Estimated start: 1 January 2027

Rate: $130-$145 per hour, including superannuation

Locations: Canberra preferred; Melbourne and Brisbane also considered

Eligibility: Australian citizenship and active NV1 security clearance required

Hybrid working may be considered. Candidates must live within reasonable travelling distance of the relevant office and be available to attend onsite for business requirements or emergencies. NSW-based candidates cannot be considered for this engagement.

About the opportunity

Hope IT Consulting is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a Federal Government engagement supporting enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.

This is a hands-on role focused on administering, maintaining and improving on-premises container platforms. You will work with infrastructure, security, application and architecture teams to maintain platform availability, security and performance.

Contract: 12 months, with extension options of up to 24 months

Estimated start: 1 January 2027

Rate: $130-$145 per hour, including superannuation

Locations: Canberra preferred; Melbourne and Brisbane also considered

Eligibility: Australian citizenship and active NV1 security clearance required

Hybrid working may be considered. Candidates must live within reasonable travelling distance of the relevant office and be available to attend onsite for business requirements or emergencies. NSW-based candidates cannot be considered for this engagement.

What you will do

• Administer OpenShift clusters, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching and ongoing maintenance.

• Monitor platform health, availability, performance and capacity, and troubleshoot networking, storage, compute, certificate, authentication and cluster issues.

• Automate platform operations and support containerised application deployments using Ansible, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.

• Maintain secure platform configurations, access controls, policies, operators and supporting services.

• Contribute to incident resolution, disaster recovery procedures, technical documentation and platform improvements, while providing technical guidance and mentoring junior engineers.

Occasional out-of-hours support may be required for maintenance or exceptional incidents. Routine on-call duties are not the default expectation.

What you will bring

Strong hands-on OpenShift administration experience is highly preferred. Candidates with extensive production Kubernetes administration experience and some practical OpenShift experience will also be considered.

You will have:

• At least five years of systems administration experience, including OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster administration.

• Extensive Kubernetes administration experience covering networking, security, storage and troubleshooting in production environments.

• Working knowledge of supporting infrastructure, including compute, load balancing, DNS, certificates and identity services.

• Experience with platform automation and DevOps practices, including Ansible, Git, GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.

• Strong technical communication skills and experience working across teams to investigate incidents, implement changes and resolve complex issues.

Experience with Helm, Terraform or Python would be valuable. Government or highly regulated environment experience, familiarity with the Information Security Manual (ISM) and Essential 8, and Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent certification are desirable.