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What to Expect

• Participate in an in-house engineering squad for engineering excellence in design, development and operational of various engineering productivity products.
• Practice and lead other development communities.
• Opportunities to learn and implement large scale product design and automation
• Responsible to design, develop and maintain the engineering products and tooling.
• Be the guiding subject matter of expert for Devops methodologies, contribute to Automation, Availability, Scalability and Resiliency to the team and the development communities
• This is a senior engineering role has focus in designing, deploying, and operating Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on OpenStack in our on-premises data centers. Youll play a pivotal role in ensuring our container platforms are resilient, secure, and highly automated to support mission-critical workloads.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Design & Deployment

• Work closely with CEP customer on technical requirement gathering and
• Architect and implement production-grade OpenShift clusters on OpenStack, including control plane, compute nodes, storage integrations, and networking.
• Adapt typical OpenShift and OpenStack design into security and compliance construct.
• Provide deep technical advisory and design decision rationales to internal and external stakeholders.
• Define and automate infrastructure provisioning (IaaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Operational Excellence

• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging pipelines (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, Alertmanager).
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and day-to-day cluster health management.
• Implement robust backup, disaster recovery, and upgrade strategies.

Automation & CI/CD

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD) for platform updates, operator deployments, and application rollouts.
• Author scripts and operators to automate routine maintenance, scaling, and self-healing tasks.

Security & Compliance

• Enforce security best practices: RBAC, network policies, SELinux, secrets management (Vault, OpenShift Secrets).
• Collaborate with security teams to implement vulnerability scanning, baseline hardening, and compliance audits.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Partner with development, QA, and networking teams to onboard new applications and troubleshoot platform issues.
• Produce runbooks, run-charts, design docs, and knowledge-base articles.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 5+ years in Linux system administration (RHEL) and virtualization (KVM/QEMU). Experience in VMware would be added advantage.
• 3+ years deploying and operating OpenShift in production environments.
• Strong understanding about network and storage virtualisation.
• Hands-on experience with OpenStack (Ansible-based or OpenStack SDK): Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance.
• Understand about basic infrastructure security and policies will be added advantage.

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.
• Physical, virtual and container-based networking & storage: Calico, OVN, Ceph, Portworx.
• Monitoring/Logging: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stacks.
• Scripting: Bash, Python, or Go.
• Networking fundamentals: VLANs, SDN, L3 routing, load balancing (HAProxy, OVN LB).

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting aptitude in complex distributed systems.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; able to produce clear operational documentation.
• Proactive, self-driven, and comfortable leading cross-functional initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration or OpenStack (RHOS-CL310).
• Familiar with VMware stacks
• Experience with GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux).
• Familiarity with service mesh (Istio, OpenShift Service Mesh) and serverless frameworks.
• Exposure to hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud OpenShift deployments.