Senior Linux Engineer - Azure & Red Hat (NV1) - Onsite

Client 1; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Training and certification support

Employee benefits platform

Employee Assistance Program

Parental leave and family support

Referral program

Job summary

Cleared is seeking a Senior Linux Engineer to support secure Azure and Red Hat environments within a government customer. The role focuses on administration, automation and ongoing support of enterprise Linux platforms to ensure availability, performance, compliance and operational stability.

You will work with service management, infrastructure and cloud teams to deliver reliable platform services onsite in Canberra or Melbourne.

Qualifications

• Active NV1 clearance required for government work.
• RHCSA and/or RHCE certification required.
• Experience supporting Azure and Red Hat environments in enterprise or government settings.
• Ability to manage RHEL and Windows Server VMs in production and non-production environments.
• Familiarity with infrastructure patching and monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of ITIL processes (incident, problem and change management).

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments across production and non-production systems.
• Manage and support Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat Satellite.
• Develop automation scripts and workflows using Ansible and Git.
• Support Azure-hosted infrastructure and VM environments.
• Monitor system performance, availability and patch compliance using Azure tools.
• Configure RBAC, NSGs, tagging and high availability solutions.
• Troubleshoot Level 2/3 infrastructure incidents.
• Support change management and service requests.
• Integrate monitoring with Azure Monitor and Dynatrace.
• Contribute to platform hardening, backups and security improvements.
• Maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Azure & Red Hat

RHEL & Windows VM

Azure IaaS

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM)

Git & version control

ITIL processes

Azure Monitor & Dynatrace

Linux troubleshooting

Education

RHCSA/RHCE certification

Tools

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Red Hat Satellite

Terraform

ARM templates

Git

Azure Monitor

Job description

Cleared is seeking a Senior Linux Engineer to support secure Azure and Red Hat environments within a government customer. The role focuses on administration, automation and ongoing support of enterprise Linux platforms to ensure availability, performance, compliance and operational stability.

You will work with service management, infrastructure and cloud teams to deliver reliable platform services onsite in Canberra or Melbourne.