We are looking for an experienced Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator with strong expertise in enterprise OpenShift environments, automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, cloud migration, and platform engineering.

The ideal candidate should have extensive hands-on experience managing large-scale OpenShift clusters and a strong understanding of the underlying infrastructure, networking, security, virtualization, and automation ecosystem.

🔹 Key Responsibilities

Install, configure, administer, upgrade, and manage large-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
Perform OpenShift platform administration, troubleshooting, monitoring, performance optimization, and capacity management.
Design and implement automation for OpenShift infrastructure and application deployments.
Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment using tools such as Argo CD.
Support migration of enterprise applications and workloads to cloud environments.
Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git-based workflows.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and operational activities.
Develop and maintain Helm charts for application packaging and deployment.
Work closely with development, infrastructure, security, networking, and application teams to resolve complex platform issues.
Integrate OpenShift and enterprise platforms through REST/SOAP APIs.
Develop API consumers/publishers and support integration with external systems.
Support high-availability architectures and ensure platform reliability and resilience.
Troubleshoot complex issues involving OpenShift, networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, certificates, load balancers, firewalls, Active Directory, and infrastructure components.

🔹 Mandatory Technical Skills

Red Hat OpenShift

Strong hands-on expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Administration.
Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification preferred/required.
Extensive experience with installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, troubleshooting, and management of enterprise OpenShift clusters.
Experience with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Expert-level experience with:

Terraform
Ansible
Jenkins

Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, orchestration, and automation practices.

CI/CD & GitOps

Strong experience implementing GitOps-based deployment models.
Hands-on experience with Argo CD / ArgoCD.
Strong knowledge of Jenkins pipeline development.
Ability to write and maintain Jenkinsfiles using Groovy.
Experience with Helm and Helm chart development.

Scripting & Automation
Excellent scripting/programming capabilities using:

Bash
PowerShell
Python
Groovy
Helm / Helm Templates

🔹 API & Integration

Strong understanding of API communications and integrations.
Hands-on experience with REST and SOAP APIs.
Ability to develop and integrate API consumers and publishers.
Understanding of authentication, communication protocols, and enterprise API integration patterns.

🔹 Infrastructure & Networking Knowledge

Strong conceptual and practical understanding of enterprise infrastructure, including:

DNS architecture and troubleshooting
Authoritative and Non-Authoritative DNS
Dynamic DNS
BIND DNS
DNS Forwarders
Load Balancers
Site Selectors
Firewalls
High Availability architectures
Network communication and traffic flows
SSL/TLS communication
SSL handshake and certificate validation
Cipher Suites and encryption algorithms

🔹 Security & Identity

Strong understanding of enterprise security concepts, including:

Active Directory
Security Organizational Units (OUs)
Active Directory policies
Digital certificates
SAN certificates
Client authentication
Keystores
Mutual SSL / mTLS
SSL/TLS security
Secrets and privileged-access management

Experience with enterprise vault and secrets-management technologies such as:

HashiCorp Vault
CyberArk

🔹 OpenShift & Platform Engineering

The candidate should demonstrate a strong understanding of:

OpenShift architecture and components
Kubernetes concepts and orchestration
Containerized application platforms
OpenShift networking
Storage and persistent volumes
Cluster security
High availability and disaster recovery concepts
OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt
Platform automation
Enterprise workload migration
Cloud-native application deployment

🔹 Required Experience

8+ years of overall experience in relevant technical positions, preferably within large enterprise environments.
Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise-scale OpenShift platforms.
Proven experience with automation, orchestration, and Infrastructure as Code.
Experience working with complex enterprise infrastructure and security environments.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work with multiple technical teams and stakeholders in a large-scale enterprise environment.

🔹 Preferred Qualifications

Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification.
Strong hands-on experience with Ansible, Jenkins, and Terraform.
Experience implementing GitOps and Argo CD.
Experience with cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
Experience supporting highly available and business-critical enterprise platforms.
Experience in banking, financial services, or other large regulated environments is highly desirable.