Senior Open Shift Engineer
Posted Today by Systems Staffing Group, Inc.
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Summary: The OpenShift Platform Engineer role focuses on supporting a critical Webscale 1.6 migration initiative, which involves modernizing OpenShift clusters while ensuring they remain on vendor-supported versions. The position requires hands-on engineering experience and strong troubleshooting skills, along with effective communication with technical and operational teams. Key responsibilities include executing platform migrations, performing upgrades, and collaborating with various teams to ensure a smooth migration process. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Execute the Webscale 1.6 platform migration across the cluster fleet, including blue/green upgrades and standard in-service upgrades.
- Plan, validate, and perform OpenShift and Kubernetes cluster upgrades while minimizing service disruption.
- Support OpenShift cluster migrations across the platform environment.
- Ensure the platform and its add-on services remain on vendor-supported versions throughout the migration.
- Deploy, configure, and support OpenShift and Kubernetes distributions across the fleet.
- Automate upgrade and operational workflows using Bash, Ansible, and Python.
- Manage configuration and platform changes using Git, GitLab, GitHub, and CI/CD workflows.
- Troubleshoot platform, networking, storage, and add-on service issues, including NFS, SDN, and related components.
- Document upgrade procedures, operational runbooks, and best practices.
- Collaborate closely with operations, deployment, and engineering teams to ensure a safe and repeatable migration process.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and team members regarding upgrade planning, execution status, risks, and issue resolution.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.
- Six or more years of relevant work experience, demonstrated through one or a combination of professional work experience, military experience, or specialized training.
- Strong Linux system administration skills.
- Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, upgrading, and supporting OpenShift or Kubernetes environments.
- Strong OpenShift platform engineering experience.
- Experience supporting cluster upgrades, migrations, or large-scale platform modernization efforts.
- Experience with automation tools and scripting, including Bash, Ansible, and Python.
- Working knowledge of the Kubernetes API Server.
- Knowledge of NFS and networking fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of Git, GitLab, GitHub, and CI/CD workflows.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across platform, networking, storage, and add-on services.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £60,000 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
OpenShift Platform Engineer
About the Role
We are seeking a hands-on OpenShift Platform Engineer to support a critical Webscale 1.6 migration initiative. This migration is focused on modernizing a fleet of Webscale and OpenShift clusters while ensuring the platform and its add-on services remain on vendor-supported versions.
The work will include blue/green upgrades, OpenShift cluster migrations, and standard in-service upgrades across the cluster fleet. This role requires strong hands-on engineering experience, solid platform troubleshooting skills, and the ability to communicate clearly with technical and operational teams throughout the migration process.
What You''''ll Do
- Execute the Webscale 1.6 platform migration across the cluster fleet, including blue/green upgrades and standard in-service upgrades.
- Plan, validate, and perform OpenShift and Kubernetes cluster upgrades while minimizing service disruption.
- Support OpenShift cluster migrations across the platform environment.
- Ensure the platform and its add-on services remain on vendor-supported versions throughout the migration.
- Deploy, configure, and support OpenShift and Kubernetes distributions across the fleet.
- Automate upgrade and operational workflows using Bash, Ansible, and Python.
- Manage configuration and platform changes using Git, GitLab, GitHub, and CI/CD workflows.
- Troubleshoot platform, networking, storage, and add-on service issues, including NFS, SDN, and related components.
- Document upgrade procedures, operational runbooks, and best practices.
- Collaborate closely with operations, deployment, and engineering teams to ensure a safe and repeatable migration process.
- Communicate clearly with stakeholders and team members regarding upgrade planning, execution status, risks, and issue resolution.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor''''s degree or four or more years of relevant work experience.
- Six or more years of relevant work experience, demonstrated through one or a combination of professional work experience, military experience, or specialized training.
- Strong Linux system administration skills.
- Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, upgrading, and supporting OpenShift or Kubernetes environments.
- Strong OpenShift platform engineering experience.
- Experience supporting cluster upgrades, migrations, or large-scale platform modernization efforts.
- Experience with automation tools and scripting, including Bash, Ansible, and Python.
- Working knowledge of the Kubernetes API Server.
- Knowledge of NFS and networking fundamentals.
- Working knowledge of Git, GitLab, GitHub, and CI/CD workflows.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across platform, networking, storage, and add-on services.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrable experience with SDN-related concepts and protocols.
- Virtualization and Linux certifications.
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting OpenShift in enterprise environments.
- Experience with OVN-Kubernetes.
- Experience with Multus CNI.
- Experience with a service mesh for managing Layer 7 networking.
- Experience with Service Proxy for Kubernetes.
- Experience with NetApp storage solutions.
- Experience with object storage platforms such as SwiftStack or MinIO.
- Working knowledge of OpenStack.