Senior Platform Engineer – OpenShift

About the role

Leidos Australia is seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to design, deliver and evolve a secure, scalable container platform that enables development teams to build, deploy and operate critical applications with confidence.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain Red Hat OpenShift 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 while promoting best practices for virtualization, containerisation, observability, resilience and cloud‑native delivery.

Required profile

• Passionate about modern platform engineering and creating reliable, secure environments for fast value delivery.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, able to engage technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Australian citizen with an active NV2 security clearance.

Required skills

• Design, deployment and support of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms, including Advanced Cluster Management.
• OpenShift networking (OVN‑K), ingress, traffic management and load balancing.
• OpenShift storage configuration – OpenShift Data Foundation, CSI, PV, enterprise storage arrays.
• Linux system administration, container technologies and cloud‑native architecture principles.
• Automation/IaC using Ansible, Terraform, GitOps or similar tools.
• CI/CD integration with GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or comparable solutions.
• Platform security, monitoring, logging, backup and disaster recovery.
• Experience with public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and service mesh, observability, DevSecOps.
• Knowledge of server hardware (Dell, HPE, Cisco) and storage technologies (NetApp, EMC).
• Familiarity with hypervisors such as VMware and Hyper‑V.

What we offer

• Flexible work options including life days, part‑time, job sharing and compressed hours.
• Wellbeing support with free Headspace, MeQuilibrium and dedicated wellness spaces.
• Access to over 120,000 on‑demand learning courses and professional development opportunities.
• Opportunity to work on nationally significant, mission‑critical projects.