Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer

Overview:

We are looking for a Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer with around 6 years of experience in container platforms, deployment automation, production troubleshooting, and cluster administration. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining cluster health, managing deployments and upgrades, resolving critical production issues, and supporting application migrations.

Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Manage and troubleshoot application deployments across OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Configure and maintain Jenkins deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure Jenkins pipeline jobs, deployment parameters, and automation workflows.
• Perform production troubleshooting across pods, deployments, services, routes, storage, networking, and cluster resources.
• Handle P1/critical production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution within defined SLAs.
• Perform OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades and validate cluster health after upgrades.
• Manage and perform Operator upgrades, including validation and troubleshooting of Operator-related issues.
• Monitor and maintain overall cluster health, including nodes, workloads, resource utilization, operators, storage, and networking.
• Troubleshoot issues during deployment migrations between environments/clusters.
• Understand the complete application and infrastructure environment to identify dependencies and troubleshoot issues effectively.
• Analyze logs, events, pod status, resource utilization, and deployment configurations to identify root causes.
• Collaborate with application, middleware, DevOps, and infrastructure teams during deployments and production incidents.
• Follow change-management, incident-management, and operational procedures.
• Prepare technical documentation, troubleshooting guides, and post-incident RCA documents.

Required Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps / Kubernetes / OpenShift administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and administration.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins deployments and pipeline configuration.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management skills.
• Experience handling P1 / critical production incidents.
• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades.
• Experience with Operator installation, management, and upgrades.
• Good understanding of pods, deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Routes/Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs/PVs, RBAC, nodes, and namespaces.
• Good understanding of application deployment and migration processes.
• Strong understanding of cluster health monitoring and capacity/resource management.
• Good knowledge of Linux and command-line troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with enterprise production OpenShift environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Kafka or other middleware platforms is an advantage.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and incident-management skills.

Key Competencies

OpenShift/Kubernetes Administration | Jenkins & CI/CD | Production Troubleshooting | P1 Incident Management | Cluster Upgrades | Operator Upgrades | Deployment Migration | Cluster Health Management | Root Cause Analysis

Requirements:

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Manage and troubleshoot application deployments across OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Configure and maintain Jenkins deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure Jenkins pipeline jobs, deployment parameters, and automation workflows.
• Perform production troubleshooting across pods, deployments, services, routes, storage, networking, and cluster resources.
• Handle P1/critical production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution within defined SLAs.
• Perform OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades and validate cluster health after upgrades.
• Manage and perform Operator upgrades, including validation and troubleshooting of Operator-related issues.
• Monitor and maintain overall cluster health, including nodes, workloads, resource utilization, operators, storage, and networking.
• Troubleshoot issues during deployment migrations between environments/clusters.
• Understand the complete application and infrastructure environment to identify dependencies and troubleshoot issues effectively.
• Analyze logs, events, pod status, resource utilization, and deployment configurations to identify root causes.
• Collaborate with application, middleware, DevOps, and infrastructure teams during deployments and production incidents.
• Follow change-management, incident-management, and operational procedures.
• Prepare technical documentation, troubleshooting guides, and post-incident RCA documents.

Required Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps / Kubernetes / OpenShift administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and administration.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins deployments and pipeline configuration.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management skills.
• Experience handling P1 / critical production incidents.
• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades.
• Experience with Operator installation, management, and upgrades.
• Good understanding of pods, deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Routes/Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs/PVs, RBAC, nodes, and namespaces.
• Good understanding of application deployment and migration processes.
• Strong understanding of cluster health monitoring and capacity/resource management.
• Good knowledge of Linux and command-line troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with enterprise production OpenShift environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Kafka or other middleware platforms is an advantage.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and incident-management skills.

Key Competencies

OpenShift/Kubernetes Administration | Jenkins & CI/CD | Production Troubleshooting | P1 Incident Management | Cluster Upgrades | Operator Upgrades | Deployment Migration | Cluster Health Management | Root Cause Analysis