OpenShift Platform Engineer - DevOps

About the role

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Experience with

• Active Directory:
• Security OUs
• Policies
• Vault technologies:
• CyberArk
• HashiCorp Vault
• High Availability architecture and implementation.

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.