Senior Platform Engineer - OpenStack & Kubernetes (Remote AU)

Hyperstack; Australia; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (Australia-based)

25 days holiday + public holidays

High ownership and autonomy

Challenging, high-performance infra

Job summary

NexGen Cloud in Australia (remote) is seeking an engineer to own and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes at scale. You will design, deploy and improve platform components that run GPU-accelerated workloads, ensuring performance, reliability and security.

This role focuses on automating infrastructure, implementing GitOps, and collaborating with Platform, DevOps, AI, Product and Support teams to align capabilities with customer needs.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience running OpenStack in production environments.
• Proven experience operating Kubernetes at scale (ideally bare-metal or private cloud).
• Solid understanding of Linux, networking and storage systems.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, CI/CD and Git-based workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment and operation of OpenStack and Kubernetes environments.
• Ensure platform performance, scalability and resilience for GPU workloads.
• Build and improve infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment and operational workflows.
• Lead incident response and continuous improvement of reliability.

Skills

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Linux

Networking

Storage

CI/CD

Git workflows

Troubleshooting

Ownership mindset

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Git-based workflows

GitOps

Job description

NexGen Cloud in Australia (remote) is seeking an engineer to own and operate OpenStack and Kubernetes at scale. You will design, deploy and improve platform components that run GPU-accelerated workloads, ensuring performance, reliability and security.

This role focuses on automating infrastructure, implementing GitOps, and collaborating with Platform, DevOps, AI, Product and Support teams to align capabilities with customer needs.