Senior Linux System Administrator:Ansible & Monitoring Lead

IT Alliance; Canberra; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

IT Alliance has a Federal Government client in Canberra seeking a Senior System Administrator to manage Linux systems and enterprise monitoring. The role emphasizes Ansible-based configuration management, platform lifecycle oversight, and technical documentation to support operational continuity.

The ideal candidate will ensure robust system supervision, participate in design assessments, and contribute to implementation efforts across the enterprise stack within a government environment.

Qualifications

• Experience managing Linux operating systems (RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu).
• Experience in configuration management using Ansible.
• Infrastructure management for enterprise software platforms and platform lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Assess technical and design packages including scoping, planning, reviewing and providing recommendations; contribute to implementation of actions.
• Produce concise technical systems documentation and knowledge artefacts supporting operational continuity.
• Demonstrated experience in enterprise monitoring (Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Xymon, etc.).

Skills

Linux OS administration

Platform lifecycle management

Documentation

Tools

Ansible

Splunk

Grafana

Prometheus

Xymon

Job description

IT Alliance has a Federal Government client in Canberra seeking a Senior System Administrator to manage Linux systems and enterprise monitoring. The role emphasizes Ansible-based configuration management, platform lifecycle oversight, and technical documentation to support operational continuity.

The ideal candidate will ensure robust system supervision, participate in design assessments, and contribute to implementation efforts across the enterprise stack within a government environment.