Senior Red Hat Quay DevOps Engineer | Hybrid | Canberra

Kestrel Eight; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 185,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel Eight is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to stand up and operationalise an enterprise Red Hat Quay container registry for an Australian Government agency. The role is based in Canberra with hybrid work, for a 12-month term starting 1 December 2026.

You will lead design, configuration, onboarding, and governance of the registry, integrating with OpenShift, CI/CD pipelines, identity services, and security tooling, while ensuring compliant, scalable operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years administering enterprise container platforms.
• Demonstrated Red Hat Quay deployment experience.
• Strong knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, and image lifecycle.
• Experience integrating registries with CI/CD pipelines and identity services.
• Proven automation and infrastructure as code capabilities.
• Experience operating in large, regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment, configuration and operationalisation of the Red Hat Quay registry platform.
• Design and implement the registry architecture, including repositories, organisations, teams, access controls, retention policies and image lifecycle management.
• Deliver all approved user stories for the container registry capability.
• Integrate Quay with OpenShift, CI/CD platforms, identity providers and supporting enterprise services.
• Configure authentication, authorisation, RBAC, and image signing and scanning.
• Establish secure software supply chain practices, including image provenance and vulnerability scanning.
• Build automated onboarding patterns, templates and documentation for self-serve.
• Provide expert guidance on registry best practices and large-scale operations.
• Support testing, validation and production readiness.
• Develop operational procedures, monitoring, backup and recovery processes.
• Assist application teams with onboarding and migration of container images.
• Capture implementation patterns and lessons learned for improvement.
• Collaborate with infra, security, architecture and development teams to stay aligned with standards.

Skills

Quay

OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Security tooling

Tools

Red Hat Quay

OpenShift

Kubernetes

GitOps

Vulnerability scanning

Image signing

Job description

Kestrel Eight is seeking a senior DevOps Engineer to stand up and operationalise an enterprise Red Hat Quay container registry for an Australian Government agency. The role is based in Canberra with hybrid work, for a 12-month term starting 1 December 2026.

You will lead design, configuration, onboarding, and governance of the registry, integrating with OpenShift, CI/CD pipelines, identity services, and security tooling, while ensuring compliant, scalable operations.