Senior Infrastructure Engineer

  • Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory
  • Contract
  • Negotiable
  • Contract: 12-month initial contract, commencing January 2027
  • Location: Canberra, Melbourne or Brisbane – hybrid working arrangements may be considered
  • Security Clearance: Australian Government NV1 security clearance required
  • Key Technologies: Red Hat OpenShift, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Ansible, GitOps, ArgoCD and CI/CD automation.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Engineer (OpenShift & Cloud Automation) to contribute to the development and management of large-scale private cloud and container platforms within a major Federal Government environment.

This is an opportunity to work on enterprise infrastructure modernisation, improving platform reliability, automating complex processes and enabling development teams to deliver secure, scalable digital services.


Your duties will include:

  • Design, deploy and automate enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift and OpenStack infrastructure.
  • Develop automated solutions for provisioning, configuring and scaling container platforms and private cloud environments.
  • Implement monitoring and observability solutions to improve visibility of infrastructure and application performance.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation scripts and deployment pipelines.
  • Configure and optimise CI/CD pipelines using technologies such as Ansible, GitOps and ArgoCD.
  • Support the implementation of developer environments and tools to streamline software delivery.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and continuously improve platform performance, security and operational efficiency.


Skills and Experience we are looking for:

  • Demonstrated experience designing, implementing and supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure, particularly Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes or OpenStack environments.
  • Strong Linux administration skills and experience managing private cloud or virtualised infrastructure.
  • Proven expertise in infrastructure automation, including Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience implementing enterprise monitoring and observability solutions, including telemetry pipelines, metrics collection and infrastructure monitoring.
  • Understanding of container orchestration, cluster lifecycle management, networking and security.
  • Experience configuring developer tooling such as Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces or cloud-based development environments would be advantageous.
  • Relevant certifications in Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack or Linux would be highly regarded.

Application Process:

To be considered, applicants must hold an active NV1 security clearance and have experience with enterprise container platforms, private cloud infrastructure, automation and observability solutions. If you would like to apply, please contact Jaela on email jaela.smith@talentinternational.com

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