Middle DevOps Engineer – OpenShift, On-Prem

Role Overview

• Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and design solutions that align with engineering standards and support business needs.
• Design, implement, and manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters in on-premises (physical and virtualised) environments.
• Take ownership of systems engineering projects related to OpenShift infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications and optimize deployment and release workflows.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using OpenShift and associated DevOps tools.
• Automate operational and deployment tasks using Ansible and other scripting tools.
• Perform patching and upgrades of OpenShift clusters, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and related components in compliance with change-management procedures.
• Design, implement, and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and redundancy strategies.
• Participate in on-call/standby rotation to support critical platform and infrastructure services and ensure service continuity.
• Support daily operations including trend analysis, root cause analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of platform issues to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Implement and enforce security best practices, including RBAC, vulnerability management, and compliance controls.
• Improve alerting, monitoring, and observability capabilities across OpenShift and related systems.
• Produce and maintain up-to-date documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks.
• Provide knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training to colleagues on OpenShift, GitLab, and related infrastructure technologies.

Requirements

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience or equivalent certifications (including Red Hat OpenShift), with at least 4 years in IT infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Proven hands-on experience deploying, operating, and maintaining OpenShift / Kubernetes platforms in enterprise or on-premise environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitLab CI and/or Jenkins.
• Solid background in Linux system administration, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including design and maintenance of enterprise Linux infrastructure.
• Practical experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible or similar tools.
• Scripting skills using Bash and/or Python for automation and operational tasks.
• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.
• Ability to document architectures, configurations, and standards, and to develop and maintain SOPs and technical documentation.
• Upper-intermediate level of English (both spoken and written).

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Flux
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenShift
• Python

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities