Openshift Consultants

Openshift consultants -

Associate - 1 - 3 Years

Consultant - 4 - 8 Years

Senior Consultants - 9+ years

Location - Hyderabad

Role & responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

1. Cluster Deployment & Architecture

• Design, plan, and deploy enterprise-grade Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift clusters across bare-metal,

VMware, and cloud platforms.

• Configure, tune, and optimize cluster components for high availability, enterprise security, and performance.
• Automate cluster provisioning and infrastructure configuration using Ansible, Terraform, and Helm.

2. Infrastructure Automation & GitOps

• Develop complex Ansible playbooks and Terraform scripts to automate day-to-day IT and cluster operations.
• Implement declarative application deployment and environment synchronization using GitOps tools such as ArgoCD.
• Author and maintain Helm charts and Kustomize configurations for packaging and standardizing platform services.

3. Cluster Lifecycle Management

• Monitor and maintain OpenShift clusters, including upgrades, updates, security patching, and node configuration.
• Manage persistent storage solutions including Ceph, CSI, NFS, and volume configurations for multi-tenant environments.
• Participate in on-call support, incident response, and root-cause analysis to minimize production disruption.

4. Advanced Observability & Telemetry

• Diagnose and resolve complex cluster networking issues, control-plane errors, worker-node bottlenecks, and application issues.
• Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and metrics solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Loki.
• Develop data-driven alerting mechanisms and dashboards to proactively manage cluster health and capacity.

5. Security, Compliance & Service Mesh

• Implement RBAC, CNI network policies, and cluster security configurations for multi-tenant cloud-native environments.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security frameworks and regulatory standards.
• Configure and manage Istio service mesh technologies for secure service-to-service communication, ingress, and egress.

Preferred candidate profile

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related engineering field. Equivalent work experience may be considered.

• Experience: 3 - 6 years of hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift clusters in production.

• Lifecycle Management: Proven experience managing complete Kubernetes/OpenShift lifecycle activities, including upgrades, security patching, and node scaling.

Key Skills & Competencies

• OpenShift/Kubernetes: Strong knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift architecture, networking (CNI/Calico/Cilium), and CSI storage.

• Automation: Strong proficiency in Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, and Helm.

• Observability & CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins and GitLab CI.

• Certifications: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280), CKA, or CKAD is highly preferred.