Business Transformation Consultant-Application Automation

Our Platform Engineering Services team is expanding and we're looking for a skilled Platform Engineer with deep expertise in OpenShift and the Kubernetes ecosystem. You'll play a crucial role in building maintaining and optimizing our cloud-native platforms enabling our development teams to innovate faster and more reliably.

1.        Platform Design & Implementation: Design implement and maintain scalable highly available and secure OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms including core components networking storage and security configurations.

2.        Automation & IaC Development: Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform to automate platform provisioning configuration and management across hybrid cloud environments.

3.        CI/CD Pipeline Enablement: Collaborate with development and operations teams to establish robust CI/CD pipelines ensuring seamless and automated deployment of applications to Kubernetes/OpenShift clusters.

4.        Troubleshooting & Support: Provide expert-level support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues ensuring high availability and performance of critical services.

5.        Mentorship & Best Practices: Act as a subject matter expert sharing knowledge and advocating for cloud-native best practices performance optimization and security standards within the organization.

1.         Deep Kubernetes Expertise: Proven hands-on experience with Kubernetes administration including cluster deployment networking (CNI) storage (CSI) security contexts and troubleshooting in a production environment.

2.         OpenShift Proficiency: Strong practical experience with Red Hat OpenShift including installation upgrades cluster operations and managing OpenShift-specific features like Operators Routes and Security Context Constraints.

3.         Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in using Terraform for automating infrastructure provisioning and management ideally in both cloud (GCP Azure AWS) and on-premise (e.g. VMware vSphere) contexts.

4.         Containerization & Registry: Solid understanding of containerization technologies and experience with container registries (e.g. Quay Harbor).

5.         Infrastructure and Operation System: Familiar with Operating System operations and configurations (e.g. Linux RHEL) as well as the principles of DNS and network configuration(e.g. Load Balancer Virtual IP Concepts).

1.        Experience with monitoring and logging stacks in a Kubernetes environment (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Loki ELK stack Ansible Terraform Vault).

2.         Understanding of GitOps principles and tools (e.g. Argo CD Flux CD) for continuous delivery.

3.         Demonstrated ability to create and deliver engaging presentations to diverse stakeholders from engineers to senior leadership.