Linux Infrastructure Engineer - RHEL, PaaS, Resilience

Westpac New Zealand; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks holiday + wellbeing leave

Banking benefits

Growth and development opportunities

Recognition of performance

School holiday subsidy

Volunteer days

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to join the PaaS Services team on a 12-month fixed-term basis. You will provide hands-on operational support and drive platform improvements in a complex enterprise environment.

You will work closely with engineering squads and internal customers, applying structured troubleshooting, patching, and documentation to maintain stable, secure, and resilient Linux platforms used by

Qualifications

• At least five years of relevant IT experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven hands on experience supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux in production.
• Experience with Linux maintenance, patching, administration, and OS deployment.
• Demonstrated experience using Red Hat Satellite for patching.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Experience supporting Kerberos in Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Working knowledge of VMware or similar virtualisation technologies.
• Basic networking, storage, and backup and recovery knowledge.
• Scripting experience, with exposure to Ansible being beneficial.
• Familiarity with tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Dynatrace, or SharePoint.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and problem solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands on support for enterprise Linux RHEL infrastructure alongside third party partners.
• Act as an escalation point for operational issues and major incidents.
• Maintain, patch, administer, and support Linux environments using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Support platform change through assessment, documentation, and implementation of improvements.
• Apply structured troubleshooting and provide clear root cause analysis.
• Work closely with business and engineering squads to improve system resilience.
• Support risk management, compliance configuration, and monitoring activities.
• Maintain accurate and up to date technical documentation.
• Build strong working relationships with internal customers and stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and deliver continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Linux expertise

RHEL experience

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

VMware

ServiceNow

Jira

Confluence

Dynatrace

SharePoint

Ansible

Job description

Westpac New Zealand is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux to join the PaaS Services team on a 12-month fixed-term basis. You will provide hands-on operational support and drive platform improvements in a complex enterprise environment.

You will work closely with engineering squads and internal customers, applying structured troubleshooting, patching, and documentation to maintain stable, secure, and resilient Linux platforms used by