Senior Infrastructure Engineer | OpenShift / Kubernetes | NV1

Salary: $130-$145 per hour, including superannuation

About the opportunity

Hope IT Consulting is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for a Federal Government engagement supporting enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.

This is a hands-on role focused on administering, maintaining and improving on-premises container platforms. You will work with infrastructure, security, application and architecture teams to maintain platform availability, security and performance.

Contract: 12 months, with extension options of up to 24 months

Estimated start: 1 January 2027

Rate: $130-$145 per hour, including superannuation

Locations: Canberra preferred; Melbourne and Brisbane also considered

Eligibility: Australian citizenship and active NV1 security clearance required

Hybrid working may be considered. Candidates must live within reasonable travelling distance of the relevant office and be available to attend onsite for business requirements or emergencies. NSW-based candidates cannot be considered for this engagement.

What you will do

• Administer OpenShift clusters, including installation, configuration, upgrades, patching and ongoing maintenance.

• Monitor platform health, availability, performance and capacity, and troubleshoot networking, storage, compute, certificate, authentication and cluster issues.

• Automate platform operations and support containerised application deployments using Ansible, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.

• Maintain secure platform configurations, access controls, policies, operators and supporting services.

• Contribute to incident resolution, disaster recovery procedures, technical documentation and platform improvements, while providing technical guidance and mentoring junior engineers.

Occasional out-of-hours support may be required for maintenance or exceptional incidents. Routine on-call duties are not the default expectation.

What you will bring

Strong hands-on OpenShift administration experience is highly preferred. Candidates with extensive production Kubernetes administration experience and some practical OpenShift experience will also be considered.

You will have:

• At least five years of systems administration experience, including OpenShift or Kubernetes cluster administration.

• Extensive Kubernetes administration experience covering networking, security, storage and troubleshooting in production environments.

• Working knowledge of supporting infrastructure, including compute, load balancing, DNS, certificates and identity services.

• Experience with platform automation and DevOps practices, including Ansible, Git, GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.

• Strong technical communication skills and experience working across teams to investigate incidents, implement changes and resolve complex issues.

Experience with Helm, Terraform or Python would be valuable. Government or highly regulated environment experience, familiarity with the Information Security Manual (ISM) and Essential 8, and Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or equivalent certification are desirable.

How to apply

Apply through SEEK with your current CV, clearly outlining your OpenShift and Kubernetes administration experience.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to provide a one-page pitch addressing the selection criteria, within 5,000 characters.

Apply promptly. Client submissions close on 29 October 2026.