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
