# OpenShift Platform Engineer

**Company**: Leidos Australia
**Location**: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Leidos Australia, you'll play a key role in designing, delivering, and evolving a secure, scalable container platform that enables development teams to build, deploy, and operate critical applications with confidence.

As an OpenShift Platform Engineer, you'll work within a collaborative cloud and infrastructure team to help shape modern platform capabilities that support business and customer outcomes.

Key responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platform services across complex enterprise environments, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence.

- Collaborate with application, DevOps, cloud, security, and infrastructure teams to streamline deployment pipelines, improve platform adoption, and enhance the developer experience.

- Automate platform provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and lifecycle management using Infrastructure as Code and modern engineering practices.

- Contribute to platform strategy, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational support activities while promoting best practices for virtualisation, containerisation, observability, resilience, and cloud-native delivery.

You'll need to have:

- Experience designing, deploying, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift based container platforms and Kubernetes platforms in enterprise environments including Advanced Cluster Management.

- Experience with OpenShift Networking and OVN-K, Enterprise Networking concepts, Ingress and Traffic Management, Load Balancing.

- Experience with OpenShift Storage configuration including OpenShift Data Foundation, Enterprise Storage Arrays, CSI, PV.

- Experience with Linux system administration, container technologies, and cloud-native architecture principles.

- Capability in automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps, or similar technologies.

- Knowledge of CI/CD practices and platform integration with tooling such as GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or comparable solutions.

- Experience implementing platform security, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.

- Ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits include:

- Flex Your Way – Tailor work to your life with options including Life Days (up to 12 extra days off per year), part-time arrangements, job sharing, and compressed hours.

- Wellbeing That Matters – Free access to Headspace and MeQuilibrium, plus dedicated wellness spaces to support your mental, physical, and emotional wellbeing.

- Learn Without Limits – Access over 120,000 on-demand courses, alongside technical, project management, leadership, and professional development opportunities.

- Work That Makes an Impact – Contribute to nationally significant projects that matter, solve complex challenges, and accelerate your career through unique growth opportunities.

- Build Your Future – Whether you're deepening technical expertise or preparing for leadership, we'll invest in your development every step of the way.

## Skills

### Required
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift Networking
- OVN-K
- Enterprise Networking
- Ingress and Traffic Management
- Load Balancing
- OpenShift Storage
- OpenShift Data Foundation
- Enterprise Storage Arrays
- CSI
- PV
- Linux system administration
- container technologies
- cloud-native architecture principles
- automation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Ansible
- Terraform
- GitOps
- CI/CD practices
- platform integration
- GitLab
- Jenkins
- Azure DevOps

### Nice to have
- public cloud platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- service mesh
- observability
- DevSecOps
- cloud-native security practices
- highly available
- regulated
- mission-critical environments
- Red Hat
- cloud
- automation certifications
- server configuration
- Dell
- HPE
- Cisco
- storage technologies
- NetApp
- EMC
- hypervisors
- VMware
- Hyper-V

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