Best Practices, Communication Skills, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Documentation Standards, High Availability, Linux Operating System, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Network Administration/Management, Operating Systems, People Management, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Root Cause Analysis, Software Patches, Standards Development, Technical Leadership
Mandatory Skills: Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher Managed Kubernetes Clusters. Design and deployment
Role Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher Managed Kubernetes Clusters for one of our major enterprise initiatives. The ideal candidate will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and provide technical leadership, guidance, and best practices for container platform architecture and operations.
Key Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher (RKE/RKE2) Kubernetes clusters.
• Architect highly available, scalable, and secure container platforms.
• Install, configure, upgrade, and patch OpenShift and Rancher clusters.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK stack, etc.).
• Troubleshoot cluster, networking, storage, and application issues.
• Perform root cause analysis and optimize platform performance.
• Act as an SME for OpenShift and Rancher technologies, providing guidance to customers and application teams.
• Create documentation, standards, and operational runbooks.
Required Skills & Experience:
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Rancher (RKE/RKE2).
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operations.
• Experience supporting mixed OS environments (Windows and Linux).
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Relevant certifications such as RHCA, CKA, CKAD.
• Active participation in the Kubernetes community is a plus