Senior RHEL & Satellite Engineer – Onsite Canberra

Kestrel Eight; Canberra; On-site; AUD 129,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestrel Eight is seeking a senior RHEL and Satellite engineer for a national government agency, onsite in Canberra. The role focuses on maintaining a RHEL 7 environment across virtual datacentres, physical hosts, and VMware/OpenStack, with Satellite-driven patching and smart management.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of enterprise RHEL operations, experience with Satellite and IdM, and comfort in a change-controlled, high‑critical environment. NV1 clearance is required or easily reinstated.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of enterprise RHEL operations at scale.
• Satellite and Smart Management experience is mandatory.
• Comfort working in change-controlled, high-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Create new RHEL standard operating environments and consolidate existing ones, integrating them with Satellite and Ansible.
• Recommend the schedule for RHEL z-releases and patches, then package and apply updates.
• Manage and upgrade the Satellite platform, including its Ansible integration.
• Migrate Linux hosts to supported RHEL environments.
• Run patch and release management for Red Hat Identity Management (IdM).
• Recommend ways to maintain currency and security of IdM; support upgrades and integration requirements.
• Carry out maintenance, system tuning and health checks.

Skills

RHEL administration

Satellite

Change‑controlled environments

Tools

Ansible

Satellite

OpenStack

VMware

Job description

Kestrel Eight is seeking a senior RHEL and Satellite engineer for a national government agency, onsite in Canberra. The role focuses on maintaining a RHEL 7 environment across virtual datacentres, physical hosts, and VMware/OpenStack, with Satellite-driven patching and smart management.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of enterprise RHEL operations, experience with Satellite and IdM, and comfort in a change-controlled, high‑critical environment. NV1 clearance is required or easily reinstated.