OpenShift Platform Engineer (9-Month Contract)

westpacnz; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac NZ is seeking a Platform Engineer to support and enhance OpenShift-based OPaaS on bare-metal infrastructure. You will work in the OPaaS squad delivering hands-on platform administration, automation and operational support across production and non-production environments.

You will bring deep OpenShift and Kubernetes expertise, along with Terraform and GitOps experience. The role requires collaboration in an Agile setup using Jira/Confluence and related tools.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform v4.15+.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge including pods, namespaces, RBAC, ingress, storage and troubleshooting.
• Experience operating OpenShift on bare-metal or equivalent enterprise infra, including worker-node lifecycle.
• Linux/RHEL administration: shell scripting, systemd, SSH, Podman or equivalent runtimes.
• Automation using Terraform, Python, GitOps and source-control workflows.
• Experience with GitOps and deployment tooling such as Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, Jenkins or Bitbucket/GitHub Enterprise.
• Knowledge of enterprise networking, DNS, load balancing and ingress patterns (F5 BIG-IP, Infoblox, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring/observability platforms: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager.
• Security: RBAC, secrets management, compliance scanning and vulnerability remediation using Vault or CyberArk.
• Comfortable in an Agile squad using Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow and Teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on platform administration for OpenShift and related tooling.
• Deliver operational support and automation to improve OPaaS capabilities.
• Offer technical guidance on OpenShift, Kubernetes, platform services and integration tooling.

Skills

OpenShift Admin

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

GitOps

Argo CD

Helm

Networking

Monitoring

RBAC & Security

Dell PowerEdge

OpenShift Data Foundation

Advanced Cluster Mgmt

Developer Hub

Job description

Westpac NZ is seeking a Platform Engineer to support and enhance OpenShift-based OPaaS on bare-metal infrastructure. You will work in the OPaaS squad delivering hands-on platform administration, automation and operational support across production and non-production environments.

You will bring deep OpenShift and Kubernetes expertise, along with Terraform and GitOps experience. The role requires collaboration in an Agile setup using Jira/Confluence and related tools.