Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift

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Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift.

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EngineeringDevops Engineer

Create your best future and join Westpac as a Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift.

The Principal Platform Engineer is expected to hold the highest level of technical expertise within the OBCS team, acting as the lead technical adviser and supporting the development of L3 engineers. The role will work in partnership with the SOM to define the platform architecture, technical direction and roadmap, while the SOM retains overall accountability for the architecture and service outcomes.

This role will be responsible for leading design reviews, establishing engineering standards and guardrails, driving automation and GitOps practices, and ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, regulatory and reliability requirements. It will also drive platform consistency, resilience, capacity, cost efficiency and technical risk remediation, represent OBCS across key technical forums, manage technical engagement with vendors, and provide leadership during major incidents and recurring platform issues.

  • Expert-level experience with Red Hat OpenShift 4.x and Kubernetes, including multi-cluster environments, ACM, OVN-Kubernetes networking, ODF storage, platform upgrades and lifecycle management.
  • Strong platform architecture experience, with the ability to design highly available, resilient, scalable and secure enterprise container platforms across complex environments.
  • Strong experience with GitOps and platform automation, including Argo CD, policy as code, CI/CD quality controls and reusable engineering patterns.
  • Deep understanding 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 principles.
  • Strong technical leadership skills, with experience leading design decisions, major incident resolution, root-cause analysis and technical vendor engagement.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering, architecture, security and senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated experience mentoring senior engineers and uplifting engineering capability across teams.
  • Desirable: RHCA, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator (EX280), CKA or CKS certification. Demonstrated practical experience is valued over certification.
Why join us?                                                     

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:
  • Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
  • Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave. 
  • Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank. 
  • Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives.

To get started, simply click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button

We’re all about creating a supportive and inclusive community. We welcome everyone – no matter your age, gender, background, or abilities. We also provide additional support to welcome our veterans, Indigenous Australians and neurodiverse community.

If you need any adjustments during the recruitment process, you can find more information and contact details on our FAQs and how to contact us page, under the ‘Diversity, sustainability and flexibility’ section.

We may close this job advertisement earlier than the advertised closing date if suitable candidates are identified. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Kogarah, Australia
On-site at the office
Who can apply
AU

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12 days ago
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Principal Platform Engineer – OpenShift