Senior OpenShift Engineer - Hybrid Govt Infra Lead

Pinaka Technology Solutions Pty Ltd; Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Services Australia seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead OpenShift and Kubernetes administration across on‑premises platforms. You will oversee monitoring, security, and automation, delivering reliable cloud and container services for government workloads.

You will mentor juniors, coordinate with engineering teams, and manage complex infrastructure projects in a hybrid work setup with preferred attendance in Canberra, Melbourne or Brisbane as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering or related field is highly desirable.
• 5+ years in a large-scale ICT environment and 3+ years in a large-scale Kubernetes environment is a suitable alternative.
• Red Hat OpenShift Administration or equivalent certification is highly desirable.
• Ability to diagnose complex issues across multi-architecture, large-scale environments.
• Ability to translate complex technical information for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Administer, configure and maintain on-premises OpenShift environments for availability, stability and performance.
• Perform OpenShift lifecycle activities: install, upgrade, patch, and maintenance.
• Monitor health, capacity and performance; proactively identify issues.
• Troubleshoot OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure including networking, storage and certificates.
• Implement OpenShift security practices including RBAC and vulnerability scanning.
• Develop automation for platform admin using Ansible, GitOps and IaC.
• Design and manage OpenShift clusters for high availability and scale.
• Support developers in deploying and scaling containerised apps via CI/CD.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Kubernetes

Security & governance

Automation with Ansible

GitOps

Python scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Software Engineering

5+ years in large-scale ICT environments

Tools

Ansible

Helm

Terraform

Git

Python

CI/CD tooling

IaC tooling

Job description

Services Australia seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to lead OpenShift and Kubernetes administration across on‑premises platforms. You will oversee monitoring, security, and automation, delivering reliable cloud and container services for government workloads.

You will mentor juniors, coordinate with engineering teams, and manage complex infrastructure projects in a hybrid work setup with preferred attendance in Canberra, Melbourne or Brisbane as required.