Senior OpenShift Engineer

Dallas, IA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Senior OpenShift Engineer

Location:Dallas Texas (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Reports To: IT Manager Role Summary

Lead the architecture implementation and operations of our on premises OpenShift 4.x platform. Youll ensure reliability scalability and security while guiding best practices for CI/CD (Azure DevOps & GitHub) and automation. This position plays a key role in modernizing workloads migrating VMs and enabling development teams.

Responsibilities:

Platform Architecture & Engineering

Architect and deploy on prem OpenShift clusters including infrastructure nodes workers load balancers storage and networking.
Oversee cluster scaling resiliency HA configurations node tuning and MachineConfig operations.

CI/CD GitOps & Dev Enablement:

Lead GitOps strategy using Argo CD integrated with Azure DevOps & GitHub repositories.
Architect standardized pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions where applicable.
Build golden templates Helm charts Operators and self-service onboarding patterns.

Operations & Reliability:

Own Day-2 operations: cluster upgrades patching certificate management disaster recovery and cluster health.
Manage monitoring and observability with Prometheus Alertmanager and Grafana.
Lead incident response (including on-call rotation) root-cause analysis and platform SLOs.

Security & Compliance:

Implement security controls: RBAC SCCs/Pod Security network policies image security signing and vulnerability management.
Integrate identity (OIDC/SSO/AD) and secrets management tools.
Lead compliance reviews and ensure platform adherence to internal and external standards.

Leadership & Mentorship:

Provide technical direction and mentor mid-level/junior engineers.
Lead design reviews and platform roadmap planning.
Engage with Red Hat support and TAM for escalated issues and best practices.

Required Qualifications:

6 10 years in infrastructure/platform engineering including 3 5 years with OpenShift 4.x.
Hands-on experience operating on prem OpenShift (IPI/UPI installs bare metal virtualization integration).
Strong Linux (RHEL) administration networking (CNI VLANs DNS TLS) and storage (CSI/NFS/iSCSI/Ceph).
Proficiency with Ansible and Terraform.
Experience with pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub.
Proficiency in scripting (bash/Python) and Git-based workflows.

Preferred:

Red Hat certs: EX280 EX288 EX460 or CNCF CKA/CKS.
Experience with OpenShift Service Mesh Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) and backup/restore (OADP/Velero).
VM migration experience (e.g. VMware OpenShift Virtualization).
Expertise with OpenShift Virtualization (CNV/KubeVirt).

Job Title: Senior OpenShift Engineer Location:Dallas Texas (Onsite) Type: Contract Reports To: IT Manager Role Summary Lead the architecture implementation and operations of our on premises OpenShift 4.x platform. Youll ensure reliability scalability and security while guiding best practices for C...