OpenShift Platform Engineer
Core
Support, maintain, and improve Westpac New Zealand's OpenShift Platform as a Service (OPaaS) running on dedicated bare-metal infrastructure.
Role type
Senior IC Platform Engineer (OpenShift/Kubernetes)
Builds
Production and non-production OpenShift clusters, platform services, and supporting tooling.
Domain
Financial Services / Cloud Infrastructure
Required skills
Red Hat OpenShift v4.15+ administration, Kubernetes (pods, namespaces, operators, RBAC, ingress, storage), Linux/RHEL administration, shell scripting, Terraform, GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize), enterprise networking (DNS, load balancing), observability (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana), security (RBAC, secrets management, vulnerability remediation)
Preferred skills
Dell PowerEdge infrastructure management, OpenShift Data Foundation, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management/Security, Red Hat Developer Hub/Backstage patterns
Technologies
Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, F5 BIG-IP, Infoblox, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, HashiCorp Vault, CyberArk, Dell PowerEdge, iDRAC
Responsibilities
Provide hands-on platform administration and operational support for OpenShift and Kubernetes; manage worker-node lifecycle, capacity, and hardware dependency on bare-metal; automate platform operations using Terraform and GitOps; troubleshoot workloads and resolve incidents; implement security compliance and vulnerability remediation; collaborate within an Agile squad to manage changes and stakeholder engagement