At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.
We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow
Job DescriptionWe are seeking a detail-oriented and highly analytical Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Engineer with proven migration experience to join our team in Australia. This role focuses on designing, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade virtualization solutions on Red Hat OpenShift, while playing a key role in supporting our broader cloud transformation initiatives.
You will lead end-to-end virtualization migration projects, including workload assessments, risk analysis, and cutover planning, ensuring smooth and low-risk transitions. The role involves optimizing virtualized compute, storage, and networking resources, maintaining OpenShift clusters, and resolving complex platform issues through deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
Working closely with infrastructure, security, and application teams, you will ensure solutions align with organizational standards and compliance requirements. You will also develop and maintain documentation such as runbooks and architecture guidelines, implement automation to streamline operations, monitor performance and capacity, and provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to junior engineers and support teams.
QualificationsEssential Skills and Experience:
- Significant years of experience with Red Hat OpenShift platform administration and management
- Experience with multi-cluster OpenShift deployments. virtualisation and management
- Proven expertise in virtualization technologies, including KVM, hypervisors, and container-based virtualization
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing large-scale virtualization migration projects
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, container orchestration, and OpenShift-specific features
- Proficiency in Linux/RHEL system administration and command-line operations
- Experience with storage technologies, networking protocols, and virtual infrastructure design
- Solid understanding of performance tuning, capacity planning, and infrastructure optimization
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical issues
- Strong organizational and documentation skills with attention to detail
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Red Hat Certified Specialist (RHCS) or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) certifications
- Proficiency in automation tools such as Ansible, Python, or Bash scripting
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity planning, and high availability solutions
- Familiarity with cloud migration strategies and hybrid cloud environments
- Experience with monitoring and logging solutions for virtualized environments
- Understanding of security best practices in virtualized and containerized infrastructures
Why join us:
NCS Australia is where you can feel at home, nurturing your talents and skills as we make tomorrow together, one day at a time. Our benefits include paid parental leave, initiatives focused on your well-being and discounted health insurance. You will also enjoy discounts on various products and services and be regularly recognised and rewarded for high performance. We are committed to your career development through our Capability Fingerprint, industry and partner training programs, special interest groups, and an AI-driven learning platform. No matter where you are in your career, we offer meaningful work and opportunities for growth.
NCS Australia is an equal-opportunity employer, and we take pride in our commitment to valuing and supporting our people and the communities we serve.We are dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we strongly encourage applications from the Veterans, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander community.
At NCS Australia, we are committed to supporting adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, as well as during employment. We actively support and encourage people with disability to apply.
Agencies:
We’ve got this. We request that you do not contact NCS employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team. NCS exclusively accepts resumes from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal. Agencies that submit resumes must have a valid fee agreement and be assigned to the particular requisition by the Talent Acquisition team. Any resumes that are submitted outside of this process will become the sole property of NCS. If a candidate is hired outside of this process, no fee or payment will be given.
Work rights and background checks:
To be eligible for a position with us, applicants will need to have valid work rights for Australia and be willing to undergo a comprehensive background checking process, including probity and police checks
