Senior OpenShift Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ukraine.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to collect requirements and design solutions that meet engineering standards while addressing business needs.

• Architect, implement, and oversee Red Hat OpenShift clusters in both on-premises (physical and virtualized) settings.

• Assume responsibility for systems engineering projects related to OpenShift infrastructure.

• Work alongside development teams to containerize applications and enhance deployment and release processes.

• Create and sustain CI/CD pipelines utilizing OpenShift and relevant DevOps tools.

• Automate operational and deployment processes with Ansible and other scripting tools.

• Conduct patching and upgrades of OpenShift clusters, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and related components in accordance with change-management protocols.

• Develop, implement, and uphold backup, disaster recovery, and redundancy strategies.

• Participate in on-call/standby rotations to support critical platform and infrastructure services, ensuring service continuity.

• Assist in daily operations, including trend analysis, root cause analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving platform issues to maintain high availability and reliability.

• Enforce security best practices, encompassing RBAC, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.

• Enhance alerting, monitoring, and observability capabilities across OpenShift and associated systems.

• When OpenShift-related workload is minimal, engage in general system administration tasks, including Linux server management, infrastructure upkeep, and support of data center services as part of the infrastructure team.

• Generate and sustain comprehensive documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks.

• Facilitate knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training for colleagues on OpenShift, GitLab, and related infrastructure technologies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years of relevant professional experience; alternatively, equivalent professional certifications (including Red Hat OpenShift training) combined with at least 5 years of experience.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in deploying, operating, and maintaining OpenShift and GitLab CI platforms.

• Extensive experience with infrastructure automation practices, particularly with Ansible.

• Strong background in Linux system administration within enterprise or datacenter environments.

• Proficient in documenting architectures, configurations, and standards, and developing and maintaining SOPs and training materials.

• Upper-intermediate proficiency in English (both spoken and written).

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Professional development opportunities