Open Shift Platform Engineer

Openshift Platform engineer REMOTE CONTRACT TO HIRE Notes from the manager: Must have expertise and experience installing and/or updating Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform We tend to see a lot of candidates that have no experience installing/upgrading the platform, but instead operations folks who use the platform and services installed with the platform. We want the engineers who are architecting and installing the platforms and supporting them entirely from the ground up In general, if they have a strong background with Kubernetes that is a major plus OpenShift is essentially Kubernetes under the hood, some other Kubernetes platforms similar to OpenShift are Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)…our team’s focus is OpenShift though If they have experience with DevOps/GitOps and programming/scripting (i.e. Java, C++, bash, python, Go) skills, this is a plus as well This all ties into automation, which we like. So, if they have these skills then they have experience with automating things (we like this Ansible/Terraform are technologies around automation that we like to see, not necessarily a requirement or something we work with every day, but again shows that they have experience with the automation stuff Experience with Public Clouds is a plus as well, primarily with Microsoft Azure And just some little things we like to hear as well: Hobbies and passion for technology Comfortable on the command line/terminal Strong verbal skills who can lead discussions and advise development teams for the platform they support (OpenShift)

OpenShift Expertise: In-depth understanding of OpenShift architecture and components. Proven experience in designing, deploying, and managing OpenShift clusters. Familiarity with OpenShift networking, storage, and security concepts. Kubernetes Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, as OpenShift is built upon it. Ability to manage Kubernetes resources, deployments, services, and ingress controllers. Containerization: Proficiency in container technologies such as Docker. Experience with creating Docker images and managing container lifecycles. Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code: Skill in infrastructure automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, or similar. Ability to define infrastructure as code to deploy and manage OpenShift environments. CI/CD Integration: Experience integrating OpenShift with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Familiarity with tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar. Required Qualifications • 4+ Years of experience of OpenShift Container Platform. Must have experience in installation both IPI & UPI, upgrade, configuration of various OpenShift resources (Customization of ingress Gateway, ServiceMesh, Quay, MachineConfigPools, MachineSets), trouble shooting OpenShift on On-Premise as well as Public Cloud provider platform • 5+ Years of expereicne in designing and supporting Enterprise Infrastructure • 5+ years of depth knowledge of Linux Operating system and VMware hypervisor • 5+ Years of expereicne in designing and implementing new on-premises and Public cloud resources while implementing best practices and industry standards • 3+ Years of experience in migrating on-premises infrastructure to Public cloud • 3+ Years of experience working in container platform monitoring and alerts for resource availability such as Prometheus, App Dynamics, Dynatrace • 2+ years of experience working in environment having different Public Cloud services (EC2, S3, VPCs, Subnets, SG’s, Resource Groups, etc ) deployment • Deep understanding of system capacity and availability concepts • High degree of knowledge in IAM Roles, Policies and RBAC • High degree of knowledge in IT security • Understand enterprise level application architecture diagrams • Strong problem determination and debugging skills • Knowledge in automation and scription languages • High degree of knowledge in networking and load balancer such as Big IP (F5) • Proficiency in Linux OS, shell scripting, Ansible/Puppet scripting • Work closely with application development on day-to-day tasks along with project planning and implementation • Demonstrated experience utilizing verbal and written communication and conversation skills • Highly skilled negotiator with proven ability to reach mutually satisfactory agreements by using a persuasive communication style Preferred Qualifications Experience of other container platform technology (Kubernetes) such as AKS, GKE, and EKS Vast understanding of cloud services and solutions in platforms such as Azure Experience working with Azure PaaS, Azure networking, and Azure site reliability solutions (specific examples of each will be requested) Strong practical knowledge of Linux server operating systems (on-premises & IaaS) Experience with DevSecOps Experience with Container image scanning tool such as Prisma Familiarity with AWS, Azure and other public and private cloud services Knowledge of one or more middleware and database technologies (WebSphere Liberty, JBoss EAP, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB)