Urgent Need: OpenShift Platform Engineer - Remote

Hi Abdel,
Hope you are doing well.
This is Tahir from Drevol LLC. Please find below the job description for your reference and please let me know if you are interested in this position.
Job Title: OpenShift Platform Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months

Mentoring:

· Mentor teammates and peers with less experience in containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and automation

· Document platform standards, runbooks, and architecture decisions, and lead knowledge-sharing sessions

Consult / Design:

· Design reference architectures and reusable building blocks for OpenShift clusters, including networking, storage, and multi-tenancy

· Define best practices for application onboarding, container images, and resource management

· Meet with customers and respond to RFQ and compliance questions to review the technical implementation of security controls in our core infrastructure

· Work closely with engineering partners and implementation teams to identify pain points and deliver platform capabilities that eliminate them

· Analyze capacity, utilization, and cost trends, and implement right-sizing and autoscaling improvements to minimize impact

· Evaluate new OpenShift releases, Operators, and complementary tools, and define roadmaps for their adoption

Build / Run:

· Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and scale OpenShift clusters across on-premises, private, and public cloud environments

· Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps tools such as Argo CD (OpenShift GitOps)

· Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions

· Manage cluster Operators, storage, ingress, and networking components, such as OVN-Kubernetes and OpenShift Data Foundation

· Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing, and tune cluster performance and reliability

· Plan, test, and document backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability procedures, including etcd backup and restore

· Review code and configuration changes from peers and partners to ensure secure and supportable solutions

Security Operations:

· Troubleshoot complex production issues as an escalation point for the platform, and lead root-cause analysis and corrective action

· Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and maintain the operational readiness of all environments

· Harden clusters and enforce security policies using RBAC, Security Context Constraints, network policies, and policy engines such as OPA Gatekeeper

· Manage image security, including vulnerability scanning, signing, and trusted registries such as Quay

· Implement cloud security standards, threat modeling methodologies, secure code practices, and processes in tandem with security and software engineers

· Collaborate closely with the Security team to ensure our systems achieve and maintain HITRUST certification and compliance