Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering

• Design, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters in on-prem datacenter environments.

• Architect highly available, scalable, and secure OpenShift platforms.

• Implement cluster lifecycle management (installation, upgrades, patching, scaling).

• Configure networking, storage, ingress, and security components for OpenShift.

• Infrastructure Build & Automation

• Build and automate infrastructure in datacenter environments (compute, storage, networking).

• Integrate OpenShift with virtualization platforms (VMware/other hypervisors as applicable).

• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines for platform deployments and updates.

• Linux Systems Engineering

• Provide deep Linux system administration and troubleshooting support.

• Optimize OS-level configurations for performance, reliability, and security.

• Automate system configuration and compliance management.

• Diagnose and resolve complex kernel, networking, and storage issues.

• Reliability & Operations

• Partner closely with the SRE team to establish SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, and alerting.

• Drive observability implementation (logging, metrics, tracing).

• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and remediation.

• Ensure platform resiliency, performance tuning, and capacity planning.

• Program & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work with Program Management to drive large-scale OpenShift implementation milestones.

• Provide technical input into roadmap planning, timelines, and risk mitigation.

• Collaborate with security, networking, storage, and application teams.

• Document architecture, standards, and operational procedures.

• Security & Compliance

• Implement RBAC, security policies, and compliance controls within OpenShift.

• Harden clusters according to enterprise security standards.

• Support vulnerability management and patch governance processes.

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Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering (RHEL preferred).

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x preferred).

• Proven experience building infrastructure in on-prem datacenter environments.

• Strong understanding of:

o Kubernetes architecture

o Networking (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, SDN)

o Storage (SAN, NAS, CSI drivers)

o Virtualization platforms (VMware, etc.)

• Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Red Hat certifications (RHCE, OpenShift Certification).

• Experience implementing OpenShift at enterprise scale (multi-cluster environments).

• Experience working in SRE-driven environments.

• Knowledge of DevOps/GitOps practices.

• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).

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Key Competencies

• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

• Ability to work in cross-functional, matrixed organizations.

• Ownership mindset and proactive problem-solving.

• Ability to operate in large-scale, complex enterprise environments