OpenShift Platform Engineer - DevOps

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift Administration, DevOps automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native technologies.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience managing large-scale OpenShift environments, automating infrastructure deployments, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing GitOps-driven delivery models, and supporting cloud migration initiatives.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset with expertise across Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, automation, platform engineering, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, standardizing, and automating technology platforms while ensuring scalability, security, availability, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Key Responsibilities • Design, install, configure, manage, and automate large-scale OpenShift clusters.
• • Develop and implement automation solutions for platform provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
• • Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible, and automation frameworks.
• • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and support modern DevOps delivery practices.
• • Implement GitOps-driven configuration management and application deployment approaches.
• • Support application migration initiatives from traditional environments to cloud and container platforms.
• • Design standardized technology stacks and reusable platform components.
• • Develop automation solutions to enable zero-touch and unattended deployments.
• • Perform platform capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability improvements.
• • Collaborate with architects, application teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams to deliver enterprise platform solutions.
• • Participate in technical design discussions and provide recommendations on platform architecture.
• • Troubleshoot complex platform issues related to OpenShift, Kubernetes, networking, security, and integrations.
• • Support production stability by improving automation, reliability, monitoring, and operational processes.
• • Contribute to engineering best practices, open-source adoption, and continuous platform improvements.

Required Technical Skills

• OpenShift / Kubernetes • Strong hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift Administration.
• • Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and managing enterprise-scale OpenShift clusters.
• • Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and container technologies.
• • Understanding of OpenShift virtualization (KubeVirt).
• • Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification is preferred.

DevOps & Automation

• Strong hands-on experience with:
• • Terraform • Jenkins • Ansible
• Experience with:
• • Configuration management • Infrastructure automation • Orchestration tools • CI/CD pipeline implementation
• GitOps & Deployment • Strong understanding of GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment practices.
• • Experience with:

ArgoCD

Helm Charts

• Automated deployment workflows
• Programming & Scripting
• Strong scripting experience with:
• • Bash • PowerShell • Python • Groovy (Jenkins pipeline scripting)

Cloud & Infrastructure

• • Hands-on experience migrating applications to cloud environments.
• • Understanding of cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, private connectivity, and hybrid cloud architectures.
• • Strong conceptual understanding of infrastructure components and enterprise data center environments.

Networking & Security Knowledge

• Experience with:
• • REST/SOAP API communication concepts.
• • DNS:

Authoritative DNS

Non-authoritative DNS

Dynamic DNS

Bind DNS

DNS Forwarders

• SSL/TLS communication:

SSL handshake

Cipher suites

Encryption algorithms • Certificates:

SAN certificates

• Client authentication certificates
• Keystores
• Mutual SSL • Load balancers • Site selectors • Firewalls
• Security & Identity Management
• Experience with:
• • Active Directory:

Security OUs

Policies • Vault technologies:

CyberArk

HashiCorp Vault • High Availability architecture and implementation.

Repository & Monitoring Tools

Experience with:

• Artifact management tools:

Red Hat Satellite

Spacewalk

Nexus • ELK Stack and Beats:

Audit Beat

File Beat • OS compliance standards:

CIS Benchmarks

• Required Experience • 8+ years of experience in technology engineering / platform engineering roles.
• • Strong experience working in large enterprise environments.
• • Proven experience managing enterprise OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms.
• • Experience implementing automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code solutions.
• • Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies.

Preferred Experience

• • Experience in enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
• • Experience working with financial services or large-scale regulated environments.
• • Exposure to SRE principles and DevOps operating models.
• • Experience contributing to open-source technologies.

Key Competencies

• • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• • Strategic thinking with a research and development mindset.
• • Strong ownership of technical delivery and platform improvements.
• • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• • Ability to collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and application teams.
• • Understanding of project delivery methodologies and Agile practices.