OpenShift Container Platform Engineer

Role: OpenShift Platform Engineer

Contract - 12 months renewable

OpenShift platform engineer will be responsible for ensuring the uptime, performance, and compliance of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) in accordance to bank standards. As an OpenShift Engineer, you will work with architecture, development, operations, and security teams to develop scalable and secure containerized environments using Red Hat OpenShift.

Having a strong background in Containerization, Linux administration, Virtualization, Networking, and Security will be required in successfully fulfilling this role; and in providing first class level 3 support.

Additionally, understanding application development lifecycles as well practical experience in working with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools as part of the container lifecycle will be useful.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and configure OpenShift clusters and containerized applications.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation related to design, configuration, usage, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, etc., for all OCP environments.
• Provide Technical assessment and advisory in relation to design, installation, configuration, including system upgrade and migration of OCP environment, including the operators for OCP.
• Collaborate with development teams to onboard and optimize applications on the OpenShift platform.
• Implement best practices for containerization, orchestration, and automation using OpenShift.
• Troubleshoot Red Hat OCP configuration and services and container issues, working in collaboration with other relevant IT areas and vendor support towards a quick and effective resolution.
• Work on container security solutions and ensure compliance with security policies.
• Manage OpenShift clusters for performance, availability, and capacity planning.
• Perform assessments and health checks of existing solutions and provide best practice recommendation and guidance to Support team.
• Automate deployment process.

Experience (Mandatory):

• Minimum 10 years of practical experience in the implementation of OpenShift/Kubernetes environments
• Expertise with the RedHat OpenShift Container Platform/Kubernetes.
• Experience in dealing with container configuration management, especially Helm and app-of-apps concepts.
• Experience working with infrastructure as code technologies such as Ansible, Terraform.
• Knowledge of application development, ideally Java Spring Boot.
• Experience in CI/CD Pipeline.