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.