Platform Engineer-SD

Roles & 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

Manage day-to-day operations of Container Platform administration for business-critical systems, including cluster deployment, patching, configuration, migration, version upgrades, and vulnerability mitigation.

• Handle cluster capacity management and provisioning through automation of underlying hosts.

• Provide L2, and L3 operational and engineering support, including prompt incident response, investigation, root cause analysis, and resolution.

• Create and maintain system documentation, playbooks, and configuration records for the Container platform.

• Lead platform changes through the change request process and provide regular status reports to stakeholders.

• Monitor agreed service levels and implement service continuity measures, including backup/restore procedures and disaster recovery planning to ensure continuous business operations.

• Mentor less experienced internal staff and vendor personnel on procedural matters. recommendation and guidance to Support team.

• Automate deployment process

Requirements:

• Minimum 8 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.

Key Domain/Technical Skills: (Indicate up to 3 areas)

• Containerization, Linux administration, Virtualization, Networking, and Security

• Providing first class level 3 support

• Java Spring Boot, Helm, Kustomize, OpenShift, Kubernetes

• Ansible, Python or similar scripting language

• DevOps tooling (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, etc)