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), although a competitive remuneration package can be applied for an experienced candidate
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
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.
You will be responsible for the full lifecycle management of Kubernetes platforms, operating at scale and high-performance environments, including:
- 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.
- Operating a GitOps-driven platform, enabling fully declarative, version-controlled infrastructure and software delivery.
- Developing and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines using modern DevOps toolchains
- Engineering secure platforms, implementing controls such as RBAC, runtime security controls, logging, workload isolation, and network policies.Managing and integrating 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
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including developers, security professionals, and researchers, to translate requirements into effective technical solutions.
- Ensuring compliance with Monash University's technical, operational, and security standards across all systems.
To excel in this role, you should possess:
- 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 its 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.
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
Some 20,000 staff work for Monash around the world. We have 95,000 students, four Australian campuses, and campuses in Malaysia and Indonesia. We also have a major presence in India and China, and a significant centre and research foundation in Italy.
In our short history, we have skyrocketed through global university rankings and established ourselves consistently among the world's best tertiary institutions. We rank in the world’s top-50 universities in rankings including the QS World University Rankings 2026.
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Today, we have the momentum to create the future we need for generations to come. Accelerate your change here.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
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 at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Joseph Pineda, Infrastructure Delivery Lead, joseph.pineda@monash.edu
Position Description: Senior Systems Engineer
Applications Close: Monday 4 May 2026, 11:55pm AEST
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