AddressWe are looking for Infrastructure Engineers for a federal government agency for a 12-month contract with potential 12 month extension.
Location: Canberra-Adelaide-Melbourne-Brisbane
APS Level: EL1
Proposed Contract Period: Earliest start 01/06/2024 to 30/05/2025
Contract Option Period: Up to a maximum of 24 months extension options
Number Positions: 3
Security Clearance Required: Holding Negative Vetting 1 is an advantage
Closing date: 2nd May 2024
Role Purpose
The Unix/Linux Infrastructure Engineer will play a vital role in managing our Midrange Unix Infrastructure. They will also be responsible for mentoring junior Infrastructure Engineers, providing technical leadership to application teams, and advancing troubleshooting capabilities i.e. Level 2/ Level 3 support across our Midrange environments.
The Unix/Linux Infrastructure Engineer will work with project and application teams to understand the business needs, be able to articulate the business needs into a technical solution which is secure by design and focused on automation to introduce efficiency and innovation.
They will also be a key contributor to introduce the resiliency and reduction of technical debt in our Midrange infrastructure environment by undertaking upgrades, patching and migrations to the new platforms. There may be requirement to occasionally support after hours scheduled work or on a more routine basis as part of Unix Operations team on call roster system.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with other teams across the Infrastructure Division and vendors to assess, plan, and implement infrastructure improvements, patching and upgrades.
- Evaluate and assist in the ongoing support of ISM compliant secure Midrange Unix infrastructure platforms.
- Participate in incident response and problem management activities, providing expertise and guidance to resolve complex issues effectively.
- Support security monitoring and implementing improvements.
- Mentor and coach other junior Infrastructure Engineers within the team, fostering their professional development and technical growth.
- Understand business continuity requirements, plan and build solutions to support that.
- Support formal change management processes.
- There may be requirement to occasionally support after hours scheduled work or on a more routine basis as part of Unix Operations team on call roster system.
Tech Stack
- Unix/Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Solaris/AIX).
- IBM Power.
- Oracle SPARC.
- Red Hat OpenStack/OpenShift.
- High Availability Operating System Clustering technologies.
- Ansible Automation Platform and Ansible Scripting.
- RedHat Satellite.
Mandatory Criteria
- Must be Australian Citizen
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems.
- Experience with creating detailed technical documentation, e.g. as-built documents, operational handover documents, support guides, standard operating procedures.
- Experience in working collaboratively with networking, compute, storage, security engineers and architects to coordinate deployment and management of components.
- Experience in working with vendors and internal resources to ensure delivery of solutions meets requirements.
Weighted Criteria
- Demonstrated experience with Red Hat Ansible automation.
- Demonstrated experience with Red Hat Pacemaker.
- Demonstrated experience with Red Hat Satellite.
- Demonstrated experience with Red Hat Identity Manager.
- Demonstrated Experience with either Virtualisation IBM Power platform, VMware platform, OpenStack platform or Oracle SPARC Platform.
- Certified Red Hat Certified Administrator (RHCA) or Certified Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or Oracle Solaris Administration Certification is highly regarded.
