Senior Cloud Infrastructure Automation Engineer
Services Australia
LH-06160
Closing date – Tuesday 28th April 2026, 11:59 pm
Estimated start – 1st July 2026
Initial contract – 12 months
Extension – Up to 24 months
Experience level – EL1 equivalent
Location – QLD, ACT, VIC, NSW, SA
Working arrangements – Hybrid, The preferred location for these services to be performed is Canberra, however other locations of Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney may be considered for the preferred candidate. WFH/flexible work is allowed under this RFQ.
Maximum hours – 40 hours per week
Security clearance – must be able to obtain Negative Vetting Level 1
About the organisation
Services Australia is at the frontline of government service delivery, supporting millions of Australians, and is front and centre of a vision to be a world leader in government service delivery. It’s using cutting-edge technology to build world class platforms and capabilities to help Australians get on with their lives.
Job details
Infrastructure Engineers implement, manage and retire the infrastructure (including physical, virtual, networking and cloud infrastructure) that supports digital services.
Services Australia requires the Infrastructure Engineer/s to manage and maintain ICT platforms operating on RHEL Standard Operating Environment (SOE) Ecosystem, including all technical landscape design, installation, configuration, deployment, technical security and operation of ICT components and databases.
Key duties and responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities may include:
- Manage the automation, implementation and maintenance of Midrange Unix Infrastructure
- Modernise the current IBM Power Private Cloud environment
- Migrate the Network File System (NFS) from Solaris and retire Hitachi Network Attached Storage (HNAS)
- Patch Solaris environments including upgrading SOE versions
Technical skills
- Unix System Administration for Solaris
- Linux System Administration for RHEL
- Ansible Automation Platform
- Red Hat OpenStack/OpenShift
- IBM Power
- Networking (configuration, operation and troubleshooting)
- Scripting
- Virtual Machine Provisioning
- IBM Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX)
Criteria
The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience in Unix and Linux System Administration.
- Demonstrated experience in Virtual Machine Provisioning.
- Demonstrated experience in Networking (configuration, operation and troubleshooting).
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrated knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Red Hat OpenStack/OpenShift
- Demonstrated knowledge of IBM Power.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Scripting and of Unix System Administration for Solaris.