Principal Platform Engineer OpenShift

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift.

What’s the role?

What do I need?

• Expert-level experience with Red Hat OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes, including multi-cluster environments, ACM, OVN-Kubernetes networking, ODF storage, platform upgrades and lifecycle management.


• Strong platform architecture experience, with the ability to design highly available, resilient, scalable and secure enterprise container platforms across complex environments.


• Strong experience with GitOps and platform automation, including Argo CD, policy as code, CI/CD quality controls and reusable engineering patterns.


• Deep understanding of platform security, including RBAC, SCC, network segmentation, RHACS, HashiCorp Vault, vulnerability management and compliance controls.


• Experience applying SRE practices, including observability, SLOs, capacity planning, resilience, disaster recovery and FinOps principles.


• Strong technical leadership skills, with experience leading design decisions, major incident resolution, root-cause analysis and technical vendor engagement.


• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering, architecture, security and senior stakeholders.


• Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and uplifting engineering capability across teams.


• Desirable: RHCA, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator (EX280), CKA or CKS certification. Demonstrated practical experience is valued over certification.

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We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

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We may close this job advertisement earlier than the advertised closing date if suitable candidates are identified. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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