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OpenShift Platform Engineer
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Platform Engineer supporting Westpac NZ's OpenShift Platform as a Service on bare-metal infrastructure, providing hands-on administration, automation, and technical guidance for Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
About this role
Mō te tūranga | About the Role
This is a 9 months contract.
As aPlatform Engineer, you will support,maintainand improve WNZL’s OpenShift Platform as a Service(OPaaS)capability, running on dedicated bare-metal infrastructure across production and non-production environments.
Working within theOPaaSsquad, you will provide hands-on platform administration, operational support, automation and technical guidance for Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, platformservicesand supporting tooling.
Nā tāu rourou | What will you bring?
Current or recent hands-on experience administering Red Hat OpenShift Container Platformv4.15and later,platform administration experience is essential, not just application-user experience.
Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including pods, namespaces, operators, RBAC, ingress, routes, storage,schedulingand workload troubleshooting.
Experience operating OpenShift on bare-metal or equivalent enterprise infrastructure, including worker-node lifecycle, capacity,resilienceand hardware dependency management.
Linux/RHEL administration skills, including shell scripting,systemd, SSH,Podmanor equivalent container runtime knowledge.
Automation capability usingTerraform, Python,GitOpspractices and source-control workflows.
Experience withGitOpsand deployment tooling such as Argo CD, Helm,Kustomize, Jenkins, Bitbucket or GitHub Enterprise.
Understanding of enterprise networking, DNS, loadbalancingand ingress patterns using tools such as F5 BIG-IP, Infoblox or equivalent.
Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana andAlertmanager.
Working knowledge of platform security, RBAC, secrets management, compliance scanning and vulnerability remediation using tools such asHashiCorpVault or CyberArk.
Comfortable working in an Agile squad, using Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow and Teams to manage work, incidents,changeand stakeholder engagement.
Desirable
Experience with Dell PowerEdge infrastructure, iDRAC, firmware planning and platform hardware expansion.
Experience with OpenShift Data Foundation, CSIdriversor enterprise storage integration.
Exposure to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security and Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.
Exposure to Red Hat Developer Hub,DevSpaces, Red Hat Service Mesh or Backstage-style self-service platform patterns.
Red Hat Certified Specialist, Red Hat Certified Engineer or equivalent Kubernetes/OpenShift certification.
Ko mātou tēnei | Our Organisation
At Westpac, we’re working together to build a fairer and stronger New Zealand for our people, customers, and communities. For over 160 years we’ve been driven by our purpose to Create Better Futures Together.
What makes us unique are the incredible people we’re lucky enough to have walk through our doors every day. The giant ‘W’ on our building doesn’t just stand for Westpac – it says, double you. We’re a place that values, rewards and recognises individuality. Where you can be your whole self, your true self, and your best self. We’re recognised as a place where talent is developed, where passions are fuelled and where ambitions of all shapes and sizes thrive. And it all starts with you!
Tono mai ināianei! | Apply Now!
Apply today with your CV and Cover Letter.
The people of Aotearoa, New Zealand hail from many cultures and backgrounds. At Westpac New Zealand, we draw on this enormous talent pool to cultivate a team rich in ability and empowered to reach its full potential. Our aim is to be brave challengers, celebrating our differences and relentlessly advocating for our customers. It starts with us – we believe that when we care deeply and do our best for our people, they’ll do their best for our customers. We encourage people from all walks of life to apply, including those who are neurodiverse, have chronic health conditions or disabilities – your attitude and passion are as important to us as your experience, qualifications and capabilities.
Mahi tahi tātou, kaha ake tātou | Together Greater
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