Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer — Scale, Automate & GitOps

Talent; Sydney; On-site; AUD 185,000 - 332,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent International is seeking a Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer for a major enterprise platform engagement in Sydney. You will design, build, and automate a Red Hat OpenShift platform, evolve a Container-as-a-Service with GitOps workflows, and onboard CNFs at scale.

This role emphasizes automation, standardisation, and cross-functional collaboration across architecture, networking and operations. The ideal candidate has extensive OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes platform engineering experience,

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Red Hat OpenShift 4.x experience.
• Enterprise-scale Kubernetes platform engineering.
• Proven GitOps / Argo CD implementation experience.
• Strong Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform capability.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation principles.
• Hands-on Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP).
• Experience using Red Hat ACM and multi-cluster environments.
• Deep OpenShift/Kubernetes networking knowledge (OVN-Kubernetes, MetalLB, BGP, Multus, SR-IOV).
• Familiarity with OpenShift Platform Plus, Quay and ODF.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and automate Red Hat OpenShift platform components.
• Develop automated platform deployments using Ansible and IaC.
• Build and implement GitOps workflows with Argo CD.
• Implement ZTP and declarative cluster lifecycle management.
• Manage multi-cluster OpenShift environments with ACM.
• Onboard CNFs and cloud-native applications for platform tenants.
• Engineer OpenShift networking across OVN-Kubernetes, MetalLB, BGP, Multus and SR-IOV.
• Collaborate across platform, infrastructure and networking to solve complex problems.
• Support production and test environments, including incident handling and patching.
• Define standards, documentation and automation to improve operability and scale.

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Ansible

ACM

Quay

ODF

OVN-Kubernetes

MetalLB

BGP

Multus

SR-IOV

ZTP

Job description

Talent International is seeking a Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer for a major enterprise platform engagement in Sydney. You will design, build, and automate a Red Hat OpenShift platform, evolve a Container-as-a-Service with GitOps workflows, and onboard CNFs at scale.

This role emphasizes automation, standardisation, and cross-functional collaboration across architecture, networking and operations. The ideal candidate has extensive OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes platform engineering experience,