Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer
Remote
6 months
Position Overview
The Red Hat OpenShift Platform Engineer will build, expand, patch and operate enterprise OpenShift clusters supporting a rapidly growing container platform.
The engineer will balance production maintenance with net-new cluster provisioning and support the migration of workloads from a legacy HashiCorp Nomad-based platform to OpenShift. This role requires strong OpenShift, Kubernetes, Red Hat Linux and platform-troubleshooting experience.
Key Responsibilities
Provision and configure net-new Red Hat OpenShift clusters
Execute OpenShift patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation and platform maintenance
Troubleshoot cluster, node, operator, networking, storage and certificate-related issues
Validate cluster health, capacity, resilience and readiness before and after changes
Support the operational work required to migrate workloads from the legacy Nomad platform to OpenShift
Assist the existing on-call team with defined platform activities and incident troubleshooting
Create and improve runbooks, provisioning procedures and reusable automation
Maintain complete technical documentation and cross-region handoffs
Participate in scheduled after-hours and weekend maintenance when production coordination requires
Required Qualifications
Hands-on production experience administering Red Hat OpenShift
Experience with OpenShift cluster provisioning, upgrades and day-two operations
Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
Strong understanding of Kubernetes nodes, pods, deployments, services, operators and scheduling
Experience using the oc CLI, platform logs, events and metrics to diagnose failures
Experience with cluster networking, persistent storage, identity/access and certificate dependencies
Experience working within formal change-management, incident-management and security processes
Ability to support the assigned regional shift and scheduled maintenance rotation
Preferred Qualifications
OpenShift automation using Ansible, Terraform, GitOps or similar tooling
Experience building multiple enterprise clusters from standardized patterns
Experience migrating workloads from HashiCorp Nomad or another container platform
Red Hat or OpenShift certification
Experience within banking, financial services or another regulated industry
Tools and Technologies
Red Hat OpenShift
Kubernetes
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
Ansible / Terraform / GitOps (preferred)
HashiCorp Nomad (migration source)
Thanks,
Vinod.