Open Shift Platform Engineer

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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