Senior Infrastructure Engineer/ OpenShift/OpenStack-QLD, ACT, VIC

One of our leading federal govt clients is seeking to engage **Senior Infrastructure Engineer-QLD, ACT, VIC locations.** Please note Candidates must have a **NV1 security clearance** **Initial contract duration-12 months** **Extension term-24 months** **Experience level-Manager - EL1 Level equivalent** **Location of work-Canberra-Hybrid** **Job details** 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. **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. **Essential criteria** * 1.Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing complex enterprise scale environments, demonstrated through at least one of the following core specialisations: • Container Orchestration: Experience with enterprise container orchestration platforms, such as Red Hat OpenShift or production Kubernetes environments. • Private Cloud and Virtualisation: Experience with enterprise private cloud and virtualisation platforms, such as Red Hat OpenStack or OpenShift Virtualisation. * 2.Enterprise Telemetry and Observability Expertise: Demonstrated experience implementing and configuring telemetry pipelines, instrumentation, and collectors across infrastructure platforms (OpenStack and OpenShift) * 3.Automation and CI/CD Expertise: Experiencing developing and maintaining automation scripts and managing infrastructure as code via CI/CD pipelines. **Desirable criteria** * 1.Developer Experience/Tooling: Experience configuring and managing automated developer tooling, such as Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (or cloud IDEs), to standardise development environments. If you would like to apply for the above role, then please send y **our updated resume with Cover Let** ter **to rahul.sharma@italliance.co** m.au