Jobs / Westpac Group
Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift
Westpac Group · Kogarah, NSW, Australia
Kogarah, NSW, AustraliaHybrid
Remuneration
Banking product offers and brand discounts, flexible work arrangements, additional leave options, learning and development opportunities, and volunteering opportunities.
Location
Kogarah, NSW, Australia
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Provides senior technical leadership for an enterprise OpenShift platform, advising on architecture, technical direction, and roadmap while mentoring L3 engineers. Leads design reviews, engineering standards, automation, and GitOps practices, and drives platform security, resilience, capacity, cost efficiency, and risk remediation. The role works with Red Hat OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes across multi-cluster environments, using technologies including ACM, OVN-Kubernetes, ODF, Argo CD, RHACS, and HashiCorp Vault.
Benefits
Banking product offers and employee mortgage ratesBrand discountsFlexible work arrangementsCulture, Lifestyle, and Wellbeing leaveLearning and development opportunitiesVolunteering opportunities
Qualifications
- Expert-level experience with Red Hat OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes, including multi-cluster environments, ACM, OVN-Kubernetes, ODF, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
- Experience designing highly available, resilient, scalable, and secure enterprise container platforms.
- Experience with GitOps and platform automation, including Argo CD, policy as code, CI/CD quality controls, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Knowledge 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.
- Experience leading design decisions, major incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and vendor engagement.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Advise on platform architecture, technical direction, and roadmap in partnership with the service owner.
- Lead design reviews and establish engineering standards and guardrails.
- Drive platform automation, GitOps practices, and reusable engineering patterns.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, regulatory, and reliability requirements.
- Improve platform consistency, resilience, capacity, and cost efficiency, and remediate technical risks.
- Represent the platform in technical forums and manage technical engagement with vendors.
- Lead responses to major incidents and recurring platform issues.
- Mentor L3 engineers and uplift engineering capability.
Skills
Argo CDKubernetesOpenShiftRHELVault
Certifications
RHCARed Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator (EX280)CKACKS
Industry
Banking
Relocation
No