DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – OpenShift & Virtualization

Responsibilities

• Devlop, deploy, and manage production grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters (multi AZ, hybrid cloud, and edge) that satisfy banking grade SLAs for availability, latency, and security.
• Design, provision, and maintain virtualized compute/storage/network layers (VMware vSphere, KVM, Hyper V, or similar) that host OpenShift and legacy workloads.
• Automate the full lifecycle of infrastructure and applications using Terraform, Python scripts, and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines (GitOps – Argo CD, Tekton, Jenkins, GitLab CI) for containerized banking services, enabling zero downtime releases and roll backs.
• Embed security & compliance (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, RBI/CBI) through policy as code, RBAC, network segmentation, secret management, and automated vulnerability scanning.
• Monitor, observe, and troubleshoot performance (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Elastic, Jaeger) across OpenShift, VMs, and underlying hardware; lead RCA and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with application & security teams to containerize monolithic banking apps, optimize resource requests/limits, and enforce DevSecOps best practices..
• Drive GitOps and IaC standards across the organization; create reusable Terraform modules, Python libraries, and operator patterns for repeatable deployments.
• Mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and champion a culture of automation, observability, and reliability.
• Stay current with emerging OpenShift features, virtualization trends, and AI Ops tools that can add value to the bank's digital transformation.

Technical Skills:

• OpenShift - 7- 10 years of production experience – cluster installation, upgrades, operators, service mesh, GitOps
• Virtualization - Deep expertise with VMware vSphere / KVM / Hyper V (vCenter, NSX, storage virtualization, resource planning).
• Infrastructure as code - Terraform (modules, workspaces, remote back ends) + strong Python (3.x) for API automation, custom tooling, and testing..
• CI/CD & GIT Ops - Hands on with Argo CD, Tekton, Jenkins, GitLab CI; Helm charts and OpenShift Operators.
• Observability - Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/Elastic, Jaeger/Zipkin, alerting & dashboarding.