Oracle Cloud Infra Admin - Devops And Openshift Engineer - Senior (Noida)

The opportunity We are seeking a Senior OpenShift Engineer (37 years hands-on experience) to drive end-to-end deployment, lifecycle management and day-to-day operations of Red Hat OpenShift clusters across on-premises (bare-metal and virtualized) and cloud environments, including hybrid architectures. You will bring strong expertise in OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt), CI/CD toolchain integration and operating in air-gapped or disconnected environments, partnering closely with network, storage, security and application teams to ensure platform reliability, performance and compliance across the organisation. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OpenShift Cluster Deployment & Operations - Install and operate OpenShift on-prem and in the cloud (UPI/IPI), including control plane and worker setup. - Perform cluster upgrades, certificate management, and etcd backup/restore with DR readiness. - Monitor and troubleshoot using Prometheus/Grafana and maintain runbooks for common incidents. OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) - Manage OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) to run and live-migrate VMs alongside containers. - Configure VM networking (Multus/SR-IOV) and storage integration (ODF/Ceph, NFS, Fibre Channel). - Enable VM image import and backup/restore using CDI and OADP/Velero. CI/CD Pipelines & DevSecOps - Build and support CI/CD pipelines on OpenShift using Jenkins. - Manage artifact and image repositories (Nexus) and support disconnected setups. - Implement DevSecOps controls: SonarQube quality gates, image scanning (ACS/Trivy) and GitOps delivery (Argo CD). Networking, Storage & Platform Integration - Configure networking: VLANs, OVN-Kubernetes policies, egress and load balancing (HAProxy/MetalLB). - Integrate identity and security basics: LDAP/AD, RBAC, wildcard DNS and TLS certificates. - Provision storage classes and set resource controls (quotas and LimitRanges) for namespaces. Automation, IaC & Air-Gapped Environments - Automate provisioning and day-2 tasks using Ansible, Helm and Kustomize. - Support air-gapped installs by mirroring OpenShift releases/operators/images and managing ICSP/IDMS. - Use Terraform for supporting services (DNS, load balancer, IPAM) and maintain drift control via GitOps. Security, Compliance & Reliability - Apply platform security: SCCs, Pod Security standards and NetworkPolicy; align with CIS hardening. - Integrate secrets and audit controls (Vault, SIEM) and support reliability through tuning and RCA. - Create clear diagrams/runbooks/SOPs and support on-call and knowledge transfer for L1/L2 teams. Skills and attributes for success - Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with infrastructure, security, network and application teams. - Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset for resolving platform and production issues. - Proactive team player with strong ownership mindset (self-starter) for day-2 operations and continuous improvement. - Ability to create high-quality technical documentation (runbooks, SOPs, architecture notes and KT material). - Well organised and detail-oriented, with discipline around change management, compliance and operational readiness. To qualify for the role, you must have - College degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technology field (or equivalent practical experience). - 37 years of hands-on experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering, cluster operations and lifecycle management. - Knowledge of automation and IaC practices/tools (Ansible, Terraform, GitOps) and CI/CD fundamentals. - Ability to handle incident management, troubleshooting, RCA documentation and customer/production escalations. - Strong stakeholder management skills to collaborate across network, storage, security and application teams. Additionally, good to have - Experience with work tracking and release/change tools (JIRA, Azure DevOps) for platform delivery and operations. - Hands-on exposure to DevOps automation and GitOps tooling (Jenkins, Argo CD), plus scripting (Bash/Python). - Knowledge of configuration management and packaging practices (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize) for repeatable platform builds. - Understanding of delivery/operations processes (Agile/Scrum, ITIL change & incident management, basic SRE practices). - Observability stack Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki. - Certification: EX280 Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration EX316 Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Virtualization CKA Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CNCF) Ideally, youll also have - Ability to define processes for teams. - Experience in project audits and reviews. - Ability to drive process improvement initiatives. - Ability to analyse risks and metrics of projects. What we look for - A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment. - An chance to be a part of The