OpenShift Platform Engineer

Job Summary

The OpenShift Platform Engineer designs, builds, secures, and operates 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:

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
• 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
• Manage cluster Operators, storage, ingress, and networking components, such as OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift Data Foundation
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing, and tune cluster performance and reliability
• Plan, test, and document backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability procedures, including etcd backup and restore
• Review code and configuration changes from peers and partners to ensure secure and supportable solutions

Security Operations

• Troubleshoot complex production issues as an escalation point for the platform, and lead root-cause analysis and corrective action
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and maintain the operational readiness of all