Senior OpenShift Engineer

• Design and implement scalable OpenShift solutions, ensuring optimal performance and reliability across multi-cluster environments. • Automate deployment pipelines using CI/CD practices, enabling rapid application updates and seamless integration into existing workflows. • Monitor and troubleshoot OpenShift clusters, utilizing tools like Prometheus and Grafana to proactively identify and resolve issues. • Manage user access and security policies within OpenShift, safeguarding applications and data against unauthorized access. • Minimum Experience At least 10 years of IT experience, preferably within the banking sector, with broad exposure to enterprise technology platforms. Minimum Qualification Bachelor Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent Professional Qualifications Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration ITIL® Foundation – IT Service Management Technical Competencies • Design, architect, and operate enterprise‑scale Red Hat OpenShift (v4.x) platforms across on‑prem, private cloud, and managed OpenShift services (ARO, ROSA) for regulated banking workloads. • Define hybrid and multi‑cloud OpenShift architecture, integrating on‑prem OpenShift with cloud‑hosted clusters while maintaining security, compliance, and operational consistency. • Architect OpenShift solutions leveraging Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), including network connectivity, identity integration, and landing zone alignment. • Build, configure, and maintain OpenShift cluster infrastructure across bare‑metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration. • Own the end‑to‑end lifecycle of OpenShift platforms: installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform health management. • Act as a solution architect and technical advisor for container platforms, guiding application modernization and cloud‑native adoption strategies. • Design hybrid connectivity models between on‑prem and cloud OpenShift clusters using VPN, private connectivity (e.g., ExpressRoute / Direct Connect–aligned designs), and secure ingress/egress patterns. • Develop technical architectures, solution blueprints, and design documents for OpenShift‑based platforms and cloud‑integrated solutions. • Prepare and deliver technical proposals, architecture presentations, and platform roadmaps to architecture review boards, leadership, and key stakeholders. • Implement and manage OpenShift ecosystem components, including Operators, OperatorHub, OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), GitOps (Argo CD), and Service Mesh (Istio). • Drive platform automation and standardization using Ansible, Terraform (where applicable), Bash, and Python across on‑prem and cloud OpenShift environments. • Enable and support CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for cloud and hybrid OpenShift clusters, ensuring controlled and compliant deployments. • Integrate OpenShift with cloud‑native services and enterprise tooling, including identity providers, container registries, monitoring, logging, and certificate management. • Ensure security, risk, and compliance alignment across hybrid and cloud platforms, enforcing RBAC, network policies, cluster hardening, and banking regulatory standards. • Integrate and manage container and cloud security tooling, including image scanning, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement (e.g., ACS, Trivy). • Monitor and troubleshoot performance, availability, and reliability issues across on‑prem and cloud OpenShift clusters, providing root cause analysis and remediation. • Design and operate centralized observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK) for hybrid OpenShift environments. • Plan and execute capacity and scaling strategies for OpenShift clusters across cloud and on‑prem platforms based on business demand and SLAs. • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to OpenShift and platform engineers, promoting cloud and hybrid platform best practices. • Lead or support small platform engineering teams, including task planning, technical reviews, and skill development. • Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, networking, SRE, and application teams to deliver secure, stable, and compliant OpenShift platforms. • Provide 24/7 production support and incident leadership, ensuring fast recovery and minimal impact to critical banking services. • Contribute to platform governance, standards definition, and continuous improvement of enterprise container and hybrid cloud platforms. Skills OpenShift Administration Hybrid Cloud Architecture IT Service Management