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 SkillsOpenShift / 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:
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:
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ArgoCD
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Helm Charts
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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:
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Authoritative DNS
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Non-authoritative DNS
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Dynamic DNS
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Bind DNS
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DNS Forwarders
- SSL/TLS communication:
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SSL handshake
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Cipher suites
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Encryption algorithms
- Certificates:
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SAN certificates
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Client authentication certificates
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Keystores
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Mutual SSL
- Load balancers
- Site selectors
- Firewalls
Security & Identity Management
Experience with:
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Security OUs
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Policies
- Vault technologies:
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CyberArk
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HashiCorp Vault
- High Availability architecture and implementation.
Repository & Monitoring Tools
Experience with:
- Artifact management tools:
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Red Hat Satellite
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Spacewalk
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Nexus
- ELK Stack and Beats:
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Audit Beat
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File Beat
- OS compliance standards:
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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.
