Open Shift Platform Engineer
Key Responsibilities:
- Architect and deploy OpenShift (OCP) clusters in production environments across bare metal, VMWare, and public cloud platforms.
- Serve as the primary OCP subject matter expert, driving best practices and standards across the organization.
- Work closely with internal teams (networking, OS, DB, applications) to integrate services and support workloads.
- Lead cluster lifecycle operations, including patching, upgrades, and backup/restore strategies for high availability and disaster recovery.
- Enable workload migration between on-prem and cloud environments (e.g., hybrid deployments) for optimization of performance, cost, and capacity.
- Drive infrastructure security and hardening, aligning with best practices in regulated and large-scale environments.
- Automate cluster provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Maintain cluster observability and performance using logging, metrics, and alerting tools.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or platform operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering in production environments.
- Proficient in container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and OpenShift ecosystem tools.
- Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMWare, bare metal, and public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with hybrid workload migrations and managing cost/resource trade-offs across environments.
- Proven expertise in backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations.
- Experience hardening and securing environments with RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails.
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps.
Nice-to-Have:
- OpenShift certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration).
- Experience in managed services or telco/broadband environments.
- Familiarity with database and storage integration in containerized workloads.
- Exposure to compliance and security standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).
Remote: Ontario, Canada
85K- 95K
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