Synechron is seeking a OpenShift Platform Engineer / OpenShift Administrator with strong expertise in OpenShift administration cloud migration automation and infrastructure management.
The role will involve installing configuring automating securing and managing large-scale OpenShift clusters and containerized workloads. The successful candidate will implement Infrastructure as Code CI/CD and GitOps practices while supporting enterprise cloud migration and platform operations.
This position will contribute to business objectives by improving platform stability deployment efficiency scalability availability security disaster recovery readiness and operational consistency across enterprise environments.
Software Requirements
Required Software Skills
- Red Hat OpenShift: Strong hands-on experience administering configuring troubleshooting securing and optimizing large-scale OpenShift clusters.
- Kubernetes/OpenShift: Strong understanding of container platform operations cluster architecture workloads networking storage and platform lifecycle management.
- Terraform: Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code for infrastructure provisioning and platform configuration.
- Ansible: Experience automating infrastructure management configuration deployment and operational tasks.
- Jenkins: Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- GitOps tools and practices: Experience implementing Git-based configuration management and deployment processes.
- KubeVirt: Understanding and experience managing OpenShift Virtualization workloads.
- Cloud migration technologies: Experience supporting application and infrastructure migration to cloud platforms.
- DNS technologies: Strong knowledge of authoritative and non-authoritative DNS Dynamic DNS BIND DNS and DNS forwarders.
- SSL/TLS technologies: Understanding of SSL handshakes cipher suites encryption algorithms certificates and secure communications.
- Active Directory: Experience with Active Directory administration Security OUs and Group Policies.
- Certificate management: Experience with SAN certificates client authentication keystores and mutual SSL (mTLS).
- Vault solutions: Hands-on experience with CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault solutions.
- API technologies: Good understanding of REST and SOAP APIs including developing API consumers and publishers.
- Infrastructure components: Experience managing load balancers firewalls and site selectors.
Preferred Software Skills
- Enterprise-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
- Cloud-native infrastructure and application migration tools.
- Platform observability monitoring logging and alerting solutions.
- Disaster recovery backup and resilience tooling.
- Additional automation and configuration-management tools relevant to enterprise platform operations.
Version and Experience Guidance
- Specific product versions are not prescribed in the requirements.
- Candidates should have experience with current production-supported versions of OpenShift Terraform Jenkins Ansible and related tools.
- Candidates should be able to assess compatibility plan upgrades apply version controls and support platform lifecycle management.
- Experience should include hands-on administration and operational support in enterprise environments.
Overall Responsibilities
- Install configure automate administer and maintain large-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
- Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform Ansible and Jenkins.
- Lead and support application migrations to cloud platforms.
- Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment processes.
- Monitor troubleshoot and optimize OpenShift platform performance availability capacity and security.
- Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift Virtualization using KubeVirt.
- Work with development infrastructure security and operations teams to maintain platform stability and scalability.
- Design and implement high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies for critical services.
- Support enterprise platform architecture infrastructure integration and operational readiness.
- Manage and troubleshoot DNS services SSL/TLS communications certificates Active Directory integrations load balancers firewalls and site selectors.
- Implement and maintain secure secrets and credentials management using Vault solutions such as CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines automation playbooks infrastructure modules and GitOps workflows.
- Define and maintain platform standards operating procedures technical documentation and recovery processes.
- Identify and resolve platform risks related to performance availability security scalability and operational continuity.
- Improve resource utilization and platform sustainability through automation capacity planning workload optimization and efficient infrastructure practices.
Technical Skills (By Category)
Programming Languages
Essential
- Scripting and automation experience using languages supported by Ansible Jenkins Terraform and enterprise platform tooling.
- Ability to develop automation scripts configuration logic API integrations and operational utilities.
- Ability to work with structured configuration formats used in infrastructure and deployment automation.
Preferred
- Experience with Python or other scripting languages used for infrastructure automation.
- Experience developing reusable automation modules scripts and platform integrations.
- Familiarity with scripting for monitoring troubleshooting and operational reporting.
Databases/Data Management
Essential
- Understanding of data persistence and storage requirements for containerized workloads.
- Understanding of configuration secrets certificates logs and platform metadata management.
- Ability to apply appropriate access retention backup and recovery controls to infrastructure-related data.
Preferred
- Experience supporting persistent workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with storage classes persistent volumes backup strategies and disaster recovery requirements.
- Exposure to platform monitoring data centralized logging and operational metrics.
Cloud Technologies
Essential
- Experience with cloud migration and container platform operations.
- Strong understanding of OpenShift and Kubernetes platform architecture.
- Experience managing large-scale containerized workloads.
- Understanding of high availability resilient infrastructure design scalability and disaster recovery.
- Experience supporting cloud-based platform deployment configuration and operations.
Preferred
- Experience with enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Familiarity with cloud-native networking storage identity security and resource management.
- Experience with cloud cost optimization capacity planning and infrastructure sustainability.
- Experience supporting hybrid or multi-environment platform operations.
Frameworks and Libraries
Essential
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
- Ansible for configuration management and automation.
- Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- GitOps practices for configuration management and deployment.
- OpenShift and Kubernetes administration frameworks and platform tools.
- KubeVirt for OpenShift Virtualization workloads.
- REST and SOAP API integration technologies.
- DNS technologies including BIND DNS Dynamic DNS DNS forwarders authoritative DNS and non-authoritative DNS.
- SSL/TLS technologies including SSL handshakes cipher suites encryption algorithms certificates keystores and mTLS.
- Active Directory administration Security OUs and Group Policies.
- Vault solutions including CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.
- Load balancers firewalls and site selectors.
Preferred
- Additional OpenShift and Kubernetes ecosystem tools.
- Platform monitoring logging tracing and alerting frameworks.
- Automation frameworks that support infrastructure lifecycle management.
- Tools for backup disaster recovery configuration compliance and platform security assessment.
Development Tools and Methodologies
Essential
- Experience across platform engineering and infrastructure operations lifecycles including planning implementation testing deployment monitoring troubleshooting and support.
- Experience designing reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks.
- Experience creating and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience implementing GitOps-driven deployment and configuration management.
- Familiarity with version control and collaborative engineering practices.
- Ability to create technical designs operating procedures implementation plans troubleshooting guides and recovery documentation.
- Experience supporting change management incident resolution root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
Preferred
- Experience with infrastructure testing and automated validation.
- Familiarity with policy-as-code and configuration compliance.
- Experience with agile delivery methods and iterative platform improvement.
- Experience implementing platform observability service-level monitoring and operational dashboards.
Security Protocols
Essential
- Strong understanding of SSL/TLS communications including SSL handshakes cipher suites and encryption algorithms.
- Experience managing SAN certificates client authentication keystores and mutual SSL (mTLS).
- Experience with Active Directory administration Security OUs and Group Policies.
- Hands-on experience with CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault solutions.
- Understanding of identity access control secrets management certificate lifecycle management and secure platform administration.
- Experience managing firewalls load balancers site selectors and secure network communications.
- Ability to apply security controls to OpenShift clusters containerized workloads automation pipelines and infrastructure components.
Preferred
- Experience implementing security baselines and compliance controls for OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with vulnerability management security monitoring audit evidence and configuration reviews.
- Experience integrating security checks into CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
- Experience designing security controls for highly available and disaster-recovery environments.
Experience Requirements
- Overall experience: 8 years of professional experience in platform engineering infrastructure engineering DevOps systems administration cloud engineering or a related technical field.
- OpenShift experience: Strong hands-on experience administering configuring automating monitoring and troubleshooting OpenShift clusters.
- Automation experience: Demonstrated experience with Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
- Cloud experience: Experience supporting cloud migration and container platform operations.
- Infrastructure experience: Strong understanding of infrastructure concepts enterprise platform architecture high availability disaster recovery and resilient infrastructure design.
- Security and networking experience: Experience with DNS SSL/TLS Active Directory certificates Vault solutions load balancers firewalls and site selectors.
- Virtualization experience: Understanding of OpenShift Virtualization using KubeVirt.
- Industry preference: Experience supporting enterprise-scale regulated operationally critical or highly available technology environments is preferred.
- Alternative experience pathways: Equivalent combinations of relevant professional experience technical training substantial platform implementations open-source contributions or demonstrated production operations may be considered.
- Outcome evidence: Candidates should demonstrate measurable contributions to platform availability deployment automation migration success operational efficiency security improvement incident reduction or infrastructure scalability.
Day-to-Day Activities
- Administer monitor troubleshoot and optimize OpenShift clusters containerized workloads KubeVirt environments networking storage and platform services.
- Collaborate with development infrastructure security cloud and operations teams through planning sessions technical reviews incident discussions and delivery meetings.
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules Ansible playbooks Jenkins pipelines GitOps configurations migration plans technical documentation and operational procedures.
- Make platform decisions within the assigned scope and escalate risks related to availability security performance capacity disaster recovery and service continuity.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience or demonstrated technical capability may be considered.
- Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in platform engineering DevOps infrastructure management systems administration or a related technical role.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with OpenShift Administration Terraform Jenkins Ansible GitOps cloud migration Kubernetes/OpenShift DNS SSL/TLS Active Directory Vault and high availability.
- Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications are highly desirable; equivalent demonstrated production expertise may also be considered.
- Commitment to continuous professional development through relevant training technical certifications knowledge sharing and ongoing learning in OpenShift Kubernetes cloud platforms automation security and platform engineering.
Professional Competencies
- Applies structured problem-solving to diagnose complex platform infrastructure networking security automation and availability issues.
- Provides technical leadership through sound platform decisions knowledge sharing design reviews and collaborative delivery.
- Communicates clearly with development infrastructure security operations and business stakeholders regarding risks dependencies incidents and technical solutions.
- Adapts to evolving cloud platforms OpenShift capabilities automation tools security requirements migration priorities and operational conditions.
- Identifies practical improvements in platform automation reliability security scalability observability resource utilization and sustainability.
- Manages priorities effectively across platform operations project delivery incident response maintenance upgrades and continuous improvement activities.
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