Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer

Platform Engineering & Administration

Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift and/or Kubernetes clusters across development, test, and production environments.

Manage cluster lifecycle activities including installation, upgrades, patching, scaling, backup, restore, and decommissioning.

Administer platform components such as ingress, networking, storage, image registries, operators, namespaces, quotas, and policies.

Ensure platform availability, performance, security, and operational stability.

Container Platform Operations

Support and troubleshoot production issues related to OpenShift, Kubernetes, containers, nodes, pods, networking, storage, and service mesh.

Maintain cluster health, resource consumption, and workload behavior, and take proactive action to prevent outages or degradation.

Perform root cause analysis for incidents and drive long-term fixes.

Work closely with SRE, infrastructure, and support teams to maintain SLAs and operational readiness.

Automation & DevOps Enablement

Build and maintain automation for cluster provisioning, configuration, and platform operations using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and scripting.

Support CI/CD integration for containerized application deployment and promotion across environments.

Enable development teams with reusable patterns, templates, and guardrails for application deployment on OpenShift/Kubernetes.

Improve operational efficiency through automation and standardization.

Security & Compliance

Implement and manage role-based access control, secrets management, certificate handling, policy enforcement, and platform hardening.

Ensure container platform aligns with enterprise security, compliance, and governance requirements.

Partner with security teams on image scanning, vulnerability remediation, network segmentation, and runtime security controls.

Support audit readiness and compliance reporting where required.

Collaboration & Engineering Support

Partner with application teams to onboard workloads to OpenShift/Kubernetes.

Guide teams on container best practices, deployment troubleshooting, scaling, observability, and operational readiness.

Work with network, storage, cloud, and security teams to resolve cross-platform issues.

Create and maintain platform documentation, SOPs, runbooks, and technical standards.