Introduction
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.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Platform Design & Implementation: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms, including core components, networking, storage, and security configurations.
- 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.
- 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.
- Troubleshooting & Support: Provide expert-level support and troubleshooting for platform-related issues, ensuring high availability and performance of critical services.
- 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.
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- 5+ years of experience in platform engineering or related roles, with proven ability to work independently on end-to-end assignments.
- Hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and maintaining OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms, including networking, storage, and security.
- Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) to automate provisioning, configuration, and management in hybrid cloud environments.
- Experience in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, ArgoCD, Tekton) for application deployment on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Advanced troubleshooting skills and ability to act as a subject matter expert, mentoring teams and promoting cloud-native best practices and security standards.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Experience with monitoring and logging stacks in a Kubernetes environment (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, Ansible, Terraform, Vault).
- Understanding of GitOps principles and tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux CD) for continuous delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to create and deliver engaging presentations to diverse stakeholders, from engineers to senior leadership.