Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer (RHEL) - Platform Resilience

Westpac New Zealand; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks standard holiday + 5 wellbeing

Banking benefits & insurance discounts

Growth and development opportunities

Recognition of high performance

School holiday subsidy

2 Volunteer days per year

Job summary

Westpac New Zealand is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Linux and RHEL to join our PaaS Services team on a 12 month fixed term basis. You will provide hands-on operational support, patch and deploy Linux environments, and work with engineering squads to improve resilience in a complex enterprise setting.

You will also participate in incident management, documentation, and collaborate with internal customers to deliver continuous improvements and robust platform stability across

Qualifications

• At least five years of relevant IT experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux in production.
• Experience with Linux maintenance, patching, administration, and OS deployment.
• 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 virtualization 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.

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 administration

RHEL

Troubleshooting

Scripting

Collaboration & communication

Incident management

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

VMware

Ansible

ServiceNow

Jira

Confluence

Dynatrace

SharePoint

Job description

Westpac New Zealand is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Linux and RHEL to join our PaaS Services team on a 12 month fixed term basis. You will provide hands-on operational support, patch and deploy Linux environments, and work with engineering squads to improve resilience in a complex enterprise setting.

You will also participate in incident management, documentation, and collaborate with internal customers to deliver continuous improvements and robust platform stability across