Platform Engineer (Openshift/Kubernetes Specialist)

Key Responsibilities

• Cluster Lifecycle Engineering: Design and automate the full lifecycle of Red Hat OpenShift clusters across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring they are treated as immutable infrastructure.

• Automation Development: Build robust, reusable automation for cluster provisioning, version upgrades, and auto-scaling using Ansible, Terraform, and Python.

• Advanced Component Management: Implement and fine-tune critical OpenShift components, specifically OVN-Kubernetes for networking and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)/Ceph for software-defined storage.

• GitOps & Orchestration: Establish and maintain GitOps workflows (e.g., using ArgoCD or Flux) to ensure the "Source of Truth" for all cluster configurations remains in Git.

• Reliability & Performance: Conduct deep-dive performance tuning and engineer high-availability (HA) solutions to ensure the container platform meets strict government Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Security & Compliance: Implement "Policy as Code" to ensure all clusters automatically adhere to IM8 security standards and CIS benchmarks.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Experience: Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

• Technical Expertise:

  • Strong mastery of Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x) and Kubernetes internals (API, etcd, Scheduler).

  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform and Ansible.

  • Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash for building custom automation tools.

  • Knowledge of container networking (SDN, OVN) and storage orchestration (CSI, Ceph/ODF).

Preferred Qualifications (Bonus)

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration/Automation.

• Experience with Cloud Native monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).

• Prior experience working within the GCC 2.0 ecosystem or GovTech stacks.