Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited

About The Client

Client is an Indian multinational technology company specializing in information technology services and consulting. Headquartered in Mumbai, it is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries.

Essential Job Functions:

- Define and Uphold Reliability Standards: Establish and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for the OpenShift platform and its core services.

- Automate Everything: Design, build, and maintain robust automation to handle the full lifecycle of OpenShift clusters, including provisioning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and disaster recovery.

- Reduce Toil: Proactively identify and eliminate manual, repetitive operational work by developing and maintaining automation scripts (Python, Go, Bash) and Ansible playbooks.

- Incident Response and Root Cause Analysis: Lead high-severity incident response and conduct deep, blameless post-mortems to identify and implement permanent solutions to prevent recurrence.

- Proactive Health Management: Develop and implement automated health checks and self-healing capabilities to ensure cluster and application resilience.

- Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the top-tier technical authority for OpenShift Container Platform architecture, networking (OVN-Kubernetes, SDN), load balancing, cross cluster management, storage (OpenShift Data Foundation/Ceph), and security.

- Observability: Architect and manage a comprehensive observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Fluentd) to provide deep insights into platform and application performance.

- CI/CD and GitOps: Engineer and optimize CI/CD pipelines for both platform components and tenant applications, championing GitOps principles for declarative configuration management.

- Capacity and Performance: Conduct advanced performance tuning, load testing, and capacity planning to ensure the platform can meet future demand

Qualifications

Experience

- 8+ years of overall experience in roles such as Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Linux Systems Engineering.





- 5+ years of hands-on, intensive experience administering, automating, and troubleshooting Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x preferred) in large-scale production environments.

- Proven experience in a senior or lead engineering role, demonstrating ownership of complex projects and mentorship of others.

Technical Skills

- Expert-Level OpenShift: Deep, authoritative knowledge of OCP installation (IPI/UPI), upgrades, cluster administration, node management, and disaster recovery.

- Kubernetes Mastery: A fundamental and deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and components (etcd, kube-apiserver, scheduler, etc.) and Operators (OLM).

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong proficiency with Ansible and Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.

- Programming/Scripting: Advanced scripting and software development skills in Python or Go, as well as Bash.

- Observability: Hands-on experience building and managing monitoring and logging solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Alertmanager, ELK Stack, Splunk, Fluentd/Vector/OTEL).

- CI/CD & GitOps: Expertise with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Tekton ,Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).

- Core Infrastructure: Strong proficiency in Linux/RHEL administration, networking (SDN, OVS, routing, firewalls, load balancer), and storage (Ceph, NFS, block storage, Object).

Education & Certifications

- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

- Preferred Certifications: Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Reliability (EX380/EX480).

Certified Kubernetes

Administrator (CKA)



is a strong plus.

Soft Skills

- Analytical Mindset: Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex technical issues across multiple platform layers.

- Ownership and Accountability: A strong sense of ownership and the drive to see issues through to resolution.

- Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of explaining complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- Composure: Ability to remain calm and effective under pressure during critical incidents.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to respond/submit their updated resumes, and for additional job opportunities, please visit Jobs In India – VARITE.

Unlock Rewards: Refer Candidates and Earn.

If you're not available or interested in this opportunity, please pass this along to anyone in your network who might be a good fit and interested in our open positions. VARITE offers a Candidate Referral program, where you'll receive a one-time referral bonus based on the following scale if the referred candidate completes a three-month assignment with VARITE.

Experience Level Bonus Referral:

0-2 years

INR 5,000

2-6 years

INR 7,500

6+ years

INR 10,000

About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Prospect Employer:

VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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