12 Month Contract 2 X 12 Month Extension Ability to obtain a NV1 Clearance Sydney CBD Office Address WFH Flexibility Our Client, a large Federal Government Department located in the CBD of Sydney is seeking to engage an experienced Platform Engineer for a long term contract position with Kubernetes platform deployment experience and strong Ansible skills. The Platform Engineer position sits within a team of highly skilled platform engineers that has operation accountability and responsibility for designing, deploying, monitoring and patching the Agency's foundational applications. The team is also responsible to work with the various agile teams to deliver new and updated business applications into production, the majority of new applications being deployed onto Kubernetes . The team has operational accountability and All activities are required to follow modern Infrastructure as Code practices, leveraging automated CI/CD pipelines for deployments. The Platform Engineer will have the following skills and experience: Infrastructure as code deployment experience onto Kubernetes (ideally with Kustomize); Certificated Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification; Kubernetes platform deployment experience (ideally with Kubespray); Strong Ansible skills; Git source control knowledge; Experience using Atlassian Jira/Confluence to manage work activities; Knowledge of Apache Proxy with mod_security. The Agency's production environment is run on managed hardware (i.e. all production infrastructure is on premise). Cloud infrastructure is leveraged but only for development activities. The network is classified as Protected, so security risk identification and mitigation is a key focus area for the team, following the Australian Government's ISM. This procurement is being initiated to procure an appropriately skilled Platforms Engineer to meet project and BaU requirements. Upcoming project work includes; Managed File transfer product implementation, productionising an AWS Landing Zone, internal LLM Chatbot deployment, Gitlab Implementation/migration and strategic API gateway delivery. For a copy of the full job description, including application instructions please get in touch with Alison at the Recruitment Hive by clicking the Apply Now button. Alternatively, you can reach Alison on (02)6299 1006 to discuss the position in further detail. Job ID AC9995 Applications close on Tuesday the 15th of October at 11:00AM.