Platform Engineer (Openshift)

Overview

You will develop the required platform automations, processes, toolchain and policies/best practices to enable government agencies to develop, deploy and operate government services on the cloud in an agile yet secure manner.

Responsibilities:

• Design, engineer, and automate the lifecycle of OpenShift clusters, treating infrastructure as software.
• Develop robust automation for cluster provisioning, upgrades, and scaling using Ansible, Terraform, or Python.
• Implement and maintain OpenShift components such as OVN-Kubernetes networking and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) storage.
• Engineer reliability and performance optimizations to ensure high availability of the container platform.
• Implement GitOps workflows for cluster configuration management.

Requirements:

• Experience: Intermediate: 3+ years
• Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes internals.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Bash or Python.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Knowledge of storage (Ceph/ODF) and networking (SDN, OVN) in a containerized environment.
• Familiarity with GitOps principles and tools.