OpenShift Platform Engineer - DevOps

Location
Bengaluru
Workplace
On-site

About this role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift Administration, DevOps automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native technologies.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience managing large-scale OpenShift environments, automating infrastructure deployments, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing GitOps-driven delivery models, and supporting cloud migration initiatives.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset with expertise across Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, automation, platform engineering, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, standardizing, and automating technology platforms while ensuring scalability, security, availability, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, install, configure, manage, and automate large-scale OpenShift clusters.
  • Develop and implement automation solutions for platform provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.
  • Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible, and automation frameworks.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and support modern DevOps delivery practices.
  • Implement GitOps-driven configuration management and application deployment approaches.
  • Support application migration initiatives from traditional environments to cloud and container platforms.
  • Design standardized technology stacks and reusable platform components.
  • Develop automation solutions to enable zero-touch and unattended deployments.
  • Perform platform capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability improvements.
  • Collaborate with architects, application teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams to deliver enterprise platform solutions.
  • Participate in technical design discussions and provide recommendations on platform architecture.
  • Troubleshoot complex platform issues related to OpenShift, Kubernetes, networking, security, and integrations.
  • Support production stability by improving automation, reliability, monitoring, and operational processes.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices, open-source adoption, and continuous platform improvements.
Required Technical SkillsOpenShift / Kubernetes
  • Strong hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift Administration.
  • Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and managing enterprise-scale OpenShift clusters.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and container technologies.
  • Understanding of OpenShift virtualization (KubeVirt).
  • Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification is preferred.
DevOps & Automation

Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Terraform
    • Jenkins
    • Ansible

Experience with:

  • Configuration management
    • Infrastructure automation
    • Orchestration tools
    • CI/CD pipeline implementation
GitOps & Deployment
  • Strong understanding of GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment practices.
  • Experience with:
  • ArgoCD
  • Helm Charts
  • Automated deployment workflows
Programming & Scripting

Strong scripting experience with:

  • Bash
    • PowerShell
    • Python
    • Groovy (Jenkins pipeline scripting)
Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Hands-on experience migrating applications to cloud environments.
  • Understanding of cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, private connectivity, and hybrid cloud architectures.
  • Strong conceptual understanding of infrastructure components and enterprise data center environments.
Networking & Security Knowledge

Experience with:

  • REST/SOAP API communication concepts.
  • DNS:
  • Authoritative DNS
  • Non-authoritative DNS
  • Dynamic DNS
  • Bind DNS
  • DNS Forwarders
  • SSL/TLS communication:
  • SSL handshake
  • Cipher suites
  • Encryption algorithms
  • Certificates:
  • SAN certificates
  • Client authentication certificates
  • Keystores
  • Mutual SSL
  • Load balancers
    • Site selectors
    • Firewalls
Security & Identity Management

Experience with:

  • Active Directory:
  • Security OUs
  • Policies
  • Vault technologies:
  • CyberArk
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • High Availability architecture and implementation.
Repository & Monitoring Tools

Experience with:

  • Artifact management tools:
  • Red Hat Satellite
  • Spacewalk
  • Nexus
  • ELK Stack and Beats:
  • Audit Beat
  • File Beat
  • OS compliance standards:
  • CIS Benchmarks
Required Experience
  • 8+ years of experience in technology engineering / platform engineering roles.
  • Strong experience working in large enterprise environments.
  • Proven experience managing enterprise OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms.
  • Experience implementing automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code solutions.
  • Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies.
Preferred Experience
  • Experience in enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
  • Experience working with financial services or large-scale regulated environments.
  • Exposure to SRE principles and DevOps operating models.
  • Experience contributing to open-source technologies.
Key Competencies
  • Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strategic thinking with a research and development mindset.
  • Strong ownership of technical delivery and platform improvements.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and application teams.
  • Understanding of project delivery methodologies and Agile practices.

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