Senior Systems Engineer
Job No.: 692887
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: Fixed-term appointment until 1 June 2029
Remuneration: $124,343 - $137,251 pa HEW Level 08 (plus 17% employer superannuation)
The Opportunity
Monash University MAVERIC is a next‐generation, high‐performance compute platform and AI supercomputer that will support data‐intensive and latency‐sensitive workloads. We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Systems Engineer to lead the management and optimisation of our enterprise‐grade, on‐premises Kubernetes platform. This role will be responsible for engineering and maintaining a secure, automated, and highly observable platform and will be pivotal in enabling teams to run workloads that leverage bleeding‐edge technology to advance global research.
Responsibilities
* Manage large‐scale, production‐grade on‐premises Kubernetes platforms, operating across multiple clusters with a focus on ensuring security, performance, high availability, scalability, and resilience.
* Deep understanding and implementation of advanced Kubernetes networking architectures, utilising CNI plugins, ingress controllers, and service meshes.
* Operate a GitOps‐driven platform, enabling fully declarative, version‐controlled infrastructure and software delivery.
* Develop and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps toolchains.
* Engineer secure platforms, implementing controls such as RBAC, runtime security controls, logging, workload isolation, and network policies.
* Manage and integrate high‐performance storage solutions and virtualisation platforms to support resource‐intensive workloads running concurrently.
* Establish observability and platform reliability, implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and applying SRE principles.
* Collaborate with cross‐functional teams, including developers, security professionals, and researchers, to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
* Ensure compliance with Monash University's technical, operational, and security standards across all systems.
Qualifications
* A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
* Extensive experience in designing and administering on‐premises Kubernetes platforms, with a strong grasp of control plane components and cluster internals.
* Proficiency in Kubernetes networking and security, including hands‐on experience with CNI plugins, ingress controllers, RBAC, runtime security controls, and network policies.
* Experience with high‐performance storage systems, virtualisation technologies, and data centre infrastructure.
* Strong skills in Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation tools such as ArgoCD, Ansible, Azure DevOps, and Github.
* Solid foundation in Linux systems, distributed systems, and high‐performance computing concepts, and infrastructure platform fundamentals.
* Excellent problem‐solving abilities and effective communication skills, with the capacity to work collaboratively across diverse teams.
Benefits
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements, enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments, including support for parents.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
Contact
Joseph Pineda, Infrastructure Delivery Lead, joseph.pineda@monash.edu
Applications Close
Monday 4 May 2026, 11:55pm AEST
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