Openshift Engineer

Job Summary

The OpenShift Platform Engineer designs, builds, secures, and operates Cotiviti's Red Hat OpenShift container platforms across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments.

They own the cluster lifecycle, automate provisioning and operations through Infrastructure as Code and GitOps, and partner with application, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver a reliable, compliant, and developer-friendly platform.

They also mentor teammates and promote a culture of automation and continuous improvement.

Principal Responsibilities and Essential Duties: Mentoring

• Mentor teammates and peers with less experience in containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and automation.
• Document platform standards, runbooks, and architecture decisions, and lead knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Consult / Design
• Design reference architectures and reusable building blocks for OpenShift clusters, including networking, storage, and multi-tenancy.
• Define best practices for application onboarding, container images, and resource management.
• Meet with customers and respond to RFQ and compliance questions to review the technical implementation of security controls in our core infrastructure.
• Work closely with engineering partners and implementation teams to identify pain points and deliver platform capabilities that eliminate them.
• Analyze capacity, utilization, and cost trends, and implement right-sizing and autoscaling improvements to minimize impact.
• Evaluate new OpenShift releases, Operators, and complementary tools, and define roadmaps for their adoption.
• Build / Run

• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and scale OpenShift clusters across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments.
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps tools such as Argo CD (OpenShift GitOps).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.