OpenShift Developer

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced OpenShift Developer / Microservices Developer with strong hands-on experience in developing, containerizing, deploying, and supporting cloud-native applications on Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes.

The candidate will be responsible for building scalable and resilient microservices, developing REST APIs, working with containers, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and deploying applications across OpenShift environments. OpenShift provides Kubernetes-based capabilities for building, deploying, scaling, securing, and managing cloud-native applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain microservices-based applications.
• Develop and integrate RESTful APIs and backend services.
• Containerize applications using Docker/Podman.
• Deploy and manage applications on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP).
• Work with Kubernetes concepts including:
• Pods
• Deployments
• Services
• ConfigMaps
• Secrets
• Namespaces
• Ingress/Routes
• Persistent Volumes
• Create and maintain OpenShift deployment configurations,YAML manifests, templates, and Helm charts.
• Configure application scaling, health checks, readiness/liveness probes, and resource limits.
• Troubleshoot application, container, networking, deployment, and runtime issues.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment processes.
• Integrate applications with Git-based source control and DevOps tools.
• Monitor application logs, metrics, and performance within OpenShift.
• Work with development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, and architecture teams.
• Participate in application modernization initiatives, including migration from monolithic applications to microservices.
• Implement security best practices for containerized applications and OpenShift deployments.
• Support production deployments, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.

Mandatory Technical Skills

OpenShift / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift / OCP.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes architecture and container orchestration.
• Experience with oc and/or kubectl CLI.
• Hands-on experience with deployments, services, routes, config maps, secrets, namespaces, pods, replicas, and persistent storage.
• Experience troubleshooting applications running on OpenShift.

Microservices

• Strong understanding of Microservices Architecture.
• Experience developing independently deployable microservices.
• REST API development and integration.
• Understanding of API Gateway, service discovery, load balancing, fault tolerance, and distributed systems.
• Experience with asynchronous/event-driven architecture is an advantage.

Programming
Candidates should have strong development experience in one or more

• Java / Spring Boot
• Quarkus
• Node.js
• Python
• .NET

For Java-based roles, strong Java + Spring Boot + Microservices + OpenShift experience should be treated as a core combination. Red Hat also specifically positions Quarkus for cloud-native microservices development and OpenShift deployment.

Containerization

• Docker / Podman
• Dockerfile / Containerfile
• Container image creation and optimization
• Image registries
• Image tagging and versioning
• Container security
• Understanding of container networking and storage

CI/CD & DevOps

Hands-on experience with some of the following:

• Jenkins
• GitLab CI/CD
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• OpenShift Pipelines / Tekton
• Argo CD
• GitOps
• Maven / Gradle
• SonarQube

OpenShift supports CI/CD and GitOps-based development workflows for creating a consistent path from development through production.

API & Integration

• REST APIs
• JSON / XML
• API Gateway
• OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect
• JWT
• Authentication and authorization
• API security
• External system integrations
• Experience with Kafka or other messaging platforms is preferred.

Experience

• 5 to8 years of overall software development experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on Microservices development.
• 2+ years of hands-on OpenShift/Kubernetes experience.
• Strong experience in production deployments and troubleshooting.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Good understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-native development practices.

Looking for an Immediate resource or serving notice can apply!!!

Location: oman (onsite)