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