Job Description

Project Role : Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use up-to-date frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills : Kubernetes

Good to have skills : NA

Minimum 3 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education

Summary:

Seeking a hands-on OpenShift Platform Engineer to support, operate, and continuously improve an enterprise OpenShift platform hosting mission-critical middleware and AI-enabled applications. The role focuses on platform operations, developer enablement, CI/CD integration, environment support, and platform reliability. The successful candidate will work closely with Development, SRE, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Security teams to ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, resilient, and production-ready.

Roles Responsibilities:

- Perform day-to-day operational support of OpenShift clusters across development, testing, and production environments.
- Manage OpenShift projects, namespaces, RBAC permissions, resource quotas, secrets, service accounts, routes, and deployment configurations.
- Support application teams with container onboarding, deployment troubleshooting, performance tuning, and platform best practices.
- Monitor platform health, capacity, utilization, and availability using enterprise monitoring and observability tools.
- Investigate and resolve platform-related incidents, deployment failures, and production issues within agreed service levels.
- Collaborate with SRE, Infrastructure, and Development teams to improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release processes, and deployment automation frameworks.
- Implement and enhance automation for recurring operational activities wherever possible.
- Assist with platform upgrades,



patching activities, and validation of new OpenShift features and capabilities.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards, vulnerability remediation requirements, and operational controls.
- Participate in root cause analysis, problem management, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
- Support middleware and AI application workloads running on the OpenShift platform.
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide support during planned maintenance windows and critical production incidents when required.

Required Experience Skills
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure support, or container platform administration.
- Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Experience supporting enterprise containerized applications in production environments.
- Knowledge of Linux administration, shell scripting, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Understanding of container technologies including Docker and Podman.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, ingress, load balancing, DNS, and security controls within container platforms.
- Experience working with Git-based source control and deployment workflows.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Skills/Additional Information
- Experience with GitOps tools such as Argo CD or OpenShift GitOps.
- Exposure to Ansible, Terraform, or Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Experience supporting AI, data processing, or middleware platforms.
- OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications are advantageous.
- Experience in highly available, mission-critical enterprise environments.
- Leverage AI tools (e.g., Copilot) to improve productivity in testing processes.

Qualification 15 years full time education

📌 Custom Software Engineer (Tamil Nadu)
🏢 Accenture
📍 Tamil Nadu