We are looking for a Senior OpenShift & Platform Engineer to lead the design, deployment, and lifecycle management of containerized platform solutions for our customers and internal product workloads. The role demands robust hands-on expertise across Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and the broader Red Hat ecosystem, combined with the ability to architect solutions, troubleshoot complex production issues, and mentor junior engineers. This position requires a deep architectural understanding of OpenShift and its layered products, moving beyond operational tasks to strategic platform evolution and advanced problem-solving.

This is a senior individual contributor role with a clear technical leadership path. You will work directly with customer architects, product teams, and Red Hat counterparts on enterprise-grade engagements.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) environments across on-premise, hybrid, and cloud deployments.
- Architect and implement scalable, secure, and highly available Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters for production workloads.
- Lead implementation of associated Red Hat products including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD), OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) / Advanced Cluster Security (ACS).
- Design and implement advanced ACM policies for multi-cluster management, governance, and automated OCP cluster provisioning with custom configurations.
- Collaborate with application teams to architect and facilitate seamless application onboarding onto OpenShift, providing guidance on best practices for containerization, secrets management, and configuration.
- Define and enforce platform standards: cluster sizing, networking (SDN/OVN), storage, ingress, RBAC, security policies, and disaster recovery, with a deep architectural understanding.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows,



container image management, and registry operations (Quay).
- Drive observability across the platform stack logging, monitoring, alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK, Loki) and integrate with enterprise tooling.
- Troubleshoot complex, cross-layer production issues spanning application, container, OS, network, and storage, demonstrating architectural insight.
- Proactively identify and resolve complex technical challenges, providing transparent assessments of feasibility and implementing robust, tested solutions.
- Conduct platform upgrades, patching, and capacity planning with minimal downtime.
- Work with security and compliance teams to harden platforms in line with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
- Author technical design documents, runbooks, SOPs, and knowledge-base articles.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to internal capability building.
- Engage directly with customer stakeholders during pre-sales scoping, solution design, and post-implementation reviews.
- Developing and packaging platform solutions using GitOps principles, Kustomize, and Helm charts, ensuring environment-specific configurations (dev/uat/prod).

Must-Have Skills & Experience

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in platform / DevOps / infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years on Red Hat OpenShift in production environments.
- Deep architectural understanding and strong expertise in Kubernetes core concepts: workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, operators, CRDs, and Helm.
- In-depth understanding of OpenShift networking concepts, including SDN, OVN, and router mechanisms (e.g., HAProxy, Ingress Controllers).




- Proven experience deploying and operating OpenShift 4.x clusters across at least two of: bare metal, VMware, AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud.
- Solid command of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, system performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Proven experience designing, implementing, and managing complex policies and automated cluster provisioning using Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).
- Hands-on experience with at least three of the following: Ansible Automation Platform, OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD), OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), Quay, ODF, ACM, ACS, Service Mesh (Istio).
- Expertise in packaging and deploying applications/platform components using Helm and Kustomize.
- Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or Go; deep experience with Ansible playbooks and roles.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / OpenTofu) and GitOps practices.
- Deep working knowledge of networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, ingress, SDN.
- Familiarity with security practices: container image scanning, vulnerability management, secrets management (Vault), pod security standards.
- Strong written and verbal communication; able to interface with both engineering teams and customer leadership.

Good to Have

- Red Hat Certifications: RHCE, EX180/EX188 (Containers), EX280 (OpenShift Administration), EX380 (Automating Cluster Management), EX370 (OpenShift Virtualization), or CKA/CKAD.
- Experience with OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt) and hybrid VM + container workloads.
- Exposure to AI/ML workload orchestration on OpenShift (OpenShift AI / RHOAI, GPU operator).
- Experience supporting BFSI, Telecom, Government, or large enterprise customers.
- Familiarity with ITIL service management practices.

Educational Qualifications

- B.E. / B.Tech / MCA / M.Sc. (Computer Science / IT) or equivalent.
- Strong practical experience and relevant Red Hat / Kubernetes certifications will be given due weightage

📌 Senior OpenShift & Platform Engineer (Day 3) (Pune)
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