Senior OpenShift Engineer

Location

Quebec

Category

Permanent or Contract

Type

Hybrid

Salary

To be confirmed

Language

French

English

Bilingual

Security

None

Seniority Level

Senior

Type

Hybrid

Salary

To be confirmed

About The Hiring Company Opticca Consulting Inc. is a Canadian technology consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, enterprise landing zones, cloud migrations, and managed services. We help public sector and enterprise organizations modernize their infrastructure through secure, scalable, and automated cloud platforms built on Microsoft Azure.

Our consultants work on complex cloud transformation projects, implementing Azure environments using Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) best practices and Infrastructure-as-Code automation.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud transformation projects
• Exposure to enterprise Azure architectures
• Collaborative consulting environment
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible hybrid work environment

About The Opportunity Opticca Consulting is seeking a highly experienced Senior OpenShift Engineer to design, deploy, secure, operate, and continuously improve enterprise Red Hat OpenShift environments.

The role requires a hands-on engineer who can move comfortably between platform architecture, installation, infrastructure integration, automation, day-2 operations, and complex production troubleshooting.

The successful candidate will work closely with application, security, networking, storage, and DevOps teams to deliver resilient container platforms in on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and public-cloud environments.

You can expect to

• Design and implement production-grade OpenShift Container Platform environments across bare metal, virtualized infrastructure, and supported cloud platforms.
• Lead or support cluster installation, expansion, configuration, upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, and disaster-recovery readiness.
• Engineer highly available control-plane, infrastructure, ingress, compute, and storage-node topologies aligned with workload and failure-domain requirements.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise networking, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, proxies, registries, identity providers, PKI, secrets-management, and storage platforms.
• Configure and troubleshoot cluster networking, routes, ingress controllers, network policies, service connectivity, certificates, and east-west/north-south traffic flows.
• Implement platform security controls, including RBAC, Security Context Constraints, compliance profiles, image governance, vulnerability management, audit logging, and cluster hardening.
• Build repeatable platform deployment and operational workflows using Ansible, GitOps, Terraform, Helm, operators, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity management, backup, recovery, and operational runbooks using enterprise observability tooling.
• Diagnose complex incidents involving etcd, operators, nodes, containers, networking, storage, performance, scheduling, and platform dependencies.
• Produce architecture documents, implementation plans, configuration standards, as-built documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials; mentor client and internal teams.

Must haves

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of Linux infrastructure experience, including at least three years of hands-on OpenShift or Kubernetes platform engineering in enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of supported OpenShift 4.x releases, operators, Machine Config, cluster lifecycle, oc/kubectl administration, and core Kubernetes concepts.
• Deep practical understanding of Linux, containers, TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls, routing, and software-defined networking.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage through CSI; familiarity with block, file, object, and software-defined storage patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot high-impact production issues methodically and communicate findings clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, scripting, source control, and automated delivery practices.
• Ability to create clear technical documentation and lead workshops, design reviews, and knowledge-transfer sessions.
• Professional working proficiency in French; English is required for collaboration with clients, vendors, and technical teams outside Quebec. ‍

Preferred Assets

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator or Red Hat Certified OpenShift Application Developer.
• Experience with Advanced Cluster Management, Advanced Cluster Security, OpenShift Data Foundation, Quay, Service Mesh, GitOps, or Pipelines.
• Experience with Portworx, NetApp, Pure Storage, VMware, KVM, Azure, AWS, or disconnected/restricted-network installations.
• Consulting experience and exposure to regulated, security-sensitive, or large-scale environments. ‍

Education and Certification

• College diploma or university degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Applicable Red Hat and industry certifications are valued but do not replace demonstrated hands-on capability.

Nice to haves

Success Profile

• A pragmatic and accountable engineer who combines technical depth with sound judgment, communicates risks early, collaborates across disciplines, and leaves environments more stable, secure, automated, and supportable than they found them.