OpenShift Platform Engineer

Role: OpenShift Platform Engineer

Work location: Alpharetta GA (Hybrid)

Type: Contract

Cluster & Infrastructure Management

• Managed OpenShift clusters across bare metal VMs and containerized environments to meet diverse application needs.
• Administration of OpenShift environments using GitOps tools ArgoCD and Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Maintain cluster-wide RBAC access policies and operational readiness for production workloads.
• Perform performance tuning and troubleshooting of CPU memory and I/O issues.
• Manage and maintain ISTIO OSSM3 operators Kiali Grafana and familiarization with the upgrade.
• Infrastructure as Code & Automation
• Design develop and maintain automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) for infrastructure and application deployment.
• Knowledge of Terraform and IAC leveraging terraform.
• Integrate AAP with ServiceNow and Git for automated change management and version control.
• Automate OpenShift lifecycle operations-including cluster upgrades-via GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Built Infrastructure-as-Code solutions enabling cluster autoscaling certificate rotation service mesh deployment and end-to-end OpenShift provisioning.
• Provisioning of clusters for the Service mesh Migration.
• Security Networking & Service Mesh
• Implement security solutions including Aqua Security WIZ and cluster-wide log monitoring tools.
• Configure advanced networking for VMs using Multus and SR-IOV to support multi-interface and high-performance workloads.
• Install and manage Istio-based service mesh to improve traffic visibility resilience and policy control.
• Manage workloads via Deployments StatefulSets PVCs Secrets ConfigMaps and Ingress configurations.
• Configure Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) to support autoscaling of Kubernetes workloads.
• Configure Vertical Pod Autoscaler (KEDA) to support autoscaling.
• Able to remediate security vulnerability and present the remediation plan on Kubernetes to the management and external security auditors.
• Very high level understanding of the security posture and rule of least privilege to maintaining the platform wide firewall rules.
• Monitoring High Availability & Operations
• Implement monitor and alert for VMs and nodes using Prometheus Grafana and OpenShift Monitoring Stack.
• Improve uptime through enhanced observability and proactive remediation supporting critical production systems.
• Reduce incident response time through improved on-call strategies and incident playbooks.
• Migrate OpenShift 4.14 clusters to service mesh-enabled architectures for enhanced reliability and traffic management.
• Implementation of Dynatrace for observability.
• Maintain of the support schedule and oncall rotation with weekly call to review the issues.
• Collaboration & Governance
• Partner with senior engineers architects and cross-functional teams to deliver secure and scalable cloud solutions.
• Develop automated workflows for ServiceNow-driven namespace management user onboarding cluster patching and Red Hat case creation.
• Maintain cloud documentation architecture diagrams and best practices in internal knowledge repositories.

Skillsets :

Operating System/Platforms:

Google Kubernetes Engine OpenShift Kubernetes Azure AWS IAC Apache Active MQ VMware ESXi V-Center RHEL.

Application/Software:

RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes AAP Docker Quay Ansible AWX Tower Terraform Jenkins Artifact Registry Prometheus Grafana APM GitHub/Gitlab IAM & Admin Billing VPC Subnets Firewall Load Balancer Hashicorp Vault Certificate Manager Secret Manager App Engine Cloud Run Functions Cronjobs Filestore NFS S3 AMQ MySQL PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server IIS Tufin VMware vSphere ESXi vCenter vMotion DRS HA vSAN Splunk Kafka Apache Weblogic WebSphere Dynatrace WIZ devOps tool Putty.