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.