Senior OpenShift Administrator
TEKsystems
Date: 5 hours ago
City: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Contract type: Contractor
About The Department
Our department is dedicated to enhancing digital services and infrastructure to support government operations. We focus on implementing, managing, and retiring infrastructure, including physical, virtual, networking, and cloud components, to ensure seamless and efficient service delivery.
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior OpenShift Administrator to join our team. This role involves monitoring, installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting, and maintaining on-premises Red Hat OpenShift clusters, particularly within the context of government services.
The ideal candidate will provide technical support, troubleshoot problems, and automate solutions to ensure stable and efficient operation of OpenShift environments. Additionally, the candidate will lead cloud projects, mentor junior staff, and integrate seamlessly into a complex, dynamic team environment.
Role And Responsibilities
If you're ready to take on this exciting opportunity and join the team, please apply here or alternatively, you can email Annabelle from our ACT office at [email protected] quoting Job Reference 544067 to register your interest.
Our department is dedicated to enhancing digital services and infrastructure to support government operations. We focus on implementing, managing, and retiring infrastructure, including physical, virtual, networking, and cloud components, to ensure seamless and efficient service delivery.
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior OpenShift Administrator to join our team. This role involves monitoring, installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting, and maintaining on-premises Red Hat OpenShift clusters, particularly within the context of government services.
The ideal candidate will provide technical support, troubleshoot problems, and automate solutions to ensure stable and efficient operation of OpenShift environments. Additionally, the candidate will lead cloud projects, mentor junior staff, and integrate seamlessly into a complex, dynamic team environment.
Role And Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot OpenShift or other Kubernetes clusters in enterprise environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and scalability.
- Assist developers in automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications using OpenShift, utilising our GitOps platform and CI/CD pipelines for efficient service delivery.
- Oversee cluster management, including in-place cluster upgrades, resource allocation, configuration management, and capacity planning within Red Hat OpenShift environments, ensuring optimal performance and responsible resource utilisation.
- Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Helm to support scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure.
- Ensure the security of OpenShift environments by implementing best practices, including vulnerability scanning, network segmentation, and role-based access control.
- Lead technical teams in the execution of OpenShift projects, mentoring junior engineers and managing project timelines and deliverables.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field is highly desirable, or demonstrated continuous professional experience of at least 5+ years in a large-scale ICT environment, and additionally 3+ years in a large-scale Kubernetes environment is a suitable alternative.
- At least 5+ years of experience in system administration, including experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster administration.
- Experience in a government or highly regulated environment, with demonstrated compliance to standards such as the Information Security Manual (ISM) and Essential 8.
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent certification, or a willingness to obtain these certifications within the first 3-6 months of employment.
If you're ready to take on this exciting opportunity and join the team, please apply here or alternatively, you can email Annabelle from our ACT office at [email protected] quoting Job Reference 544067 to register your interest.