Senior Infrastructure Engineer

One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Senior Infrastructure Engineer - EL1

Please check below all the job details:

1. Contract Duration: 03 Years (12 Months initially + 24 Months extension)
2. Work Location: Canberra, Brisbane and Melbourne (Hybrid Working available)
3. Work Arrangement: Work 3 days from office and 2 days from home each week
4. Eligibility: You must need to have NV1 Security Clearance or above
5. Tentative Start Date: 1st Jan 2027
6. Working Hours: 8 hours a day/ 40 hours a week

Key duties and responsibilities:

Infrastructure Engineers implement, manage and retire the infrastructure (including physical, virtual, networking and cloud infrastructure) that supports digital services.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Automation Specialist) is responsible for designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise scale container platform infrastructure and cloud automation solutions. The role focuses on automating the lifecycle of Red Hat OpenShift clusters, implementing end to end observability across OpenStack and OpenShift environments, and configuring developer workspaces to streamline internal delivery pipelines.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Cluster Automation and Management: Design, deploy, and automate the provisioning and scaling of enterprise OpenShift and OpenStack clusters, across private cloud infrastructure.
• Observability Implementation: Configure, integrate, and maintain agents, collectors, and pipelines to monitor application and infrastructure performance across OpenStack and OpenShift environments.
• Infrastructure Automation: Author and maintain infrastructure as code scripts, automation playbooks, and deployment pipelines to minimise manual operational overhead.

Technical Skills (Continued):

• Cloud and Virtualisation: Strong knowledge of OpenStack cloud architecture, infrastructure provisioning, and Linux administration.

Knowledge/Qualifications:

• Professional Experience: Demonstrated track record of delivering automation, container platforms, and telemetry solutions in large scale infrastructure environments.
• Industry Certifications (Desirable): Relevant certification in Kubernetes, OpenShift, OpenStack, or Linux.

Technical skills:

• Container Orchestration: Hands on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (cluster deployment, operator lifecycle management, ingress/egress, security).
• Observability and Monitoring: Proven expertise in monitoring tools, architecture, trace/metric collection, and integration with enterprise monitoring tool stacks.
• Infrastructure as Code and Automation: Expertise in Ansible, GitOps, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipeline automation.

Essential Criteria:

Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing complex enterprise scale environments, demonstrated through at least one of the following core specialisations:

1. Container Orchestration: Experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift or production Kubernetes environments.
2. Private Cloud and Virtualisation: Experience with enterprise private cloud and virtualisation platforms, such as Red Hat OpenStack or OpenShift Virtualisation.

• Enterprise Telemetry and Observability Expertise: Demonstrated experience implementing and configuring telemetry pipelines, instrumentation, and collectors across infrastructure platforms (OpenStack and OpenShift).
• Automation and CI/CD Expertise: Experiencing developing and maintaining automation scripts and managing infrastructure as code via CI/CD pipelines.

Desirable Criteria:

• Developer Experience/Tooling: Experience configuring and managing automated developer tooling, such as Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (or cloud IDEs), to standardise development environments.

The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to Krishna.R@italliance.com.au

Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get $1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates