RH OpenShift Container Platform 4 - Platform Deployment Senior Consultant

RH OpenShift Container Platform 4 - Platform Deployment Senior Consultant

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4 Senior Consultant to lead the design, deployment, configuration, and implementation of enterprise-grade OpenShift Container Platform environments. The consultant will work closely with infrastructure, cloud, security, and application teams to deploy highly available, secure, and scalable OpenShift platforms.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with OpenShift 4.x, Kubernetes, Linux, container technologies, networking, storage, automation, and enterprise platform deployment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x clusters in enterprise environments.
• Perform end-to-end OpenShift installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, and platform lifecycle management.
• Deploy OpenShift using IPI, UPI, and assisted installation methodologies where applicable.
• Configure and troubleshoot OpenShift control plane, worker nodes, operators, networking, storage, and cluster services.
• Implement highly available and production-ready OpenShift environments.
• Configure OpenShift networking, including OVN-Kubernetes, routes, ingress, load balancing, DNS, and network policies.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise LDAP/Active Directory, identity providers, certificates, monitoring, logging, and security solutions.
• Configure persistent storage using enterprise storage platforms and CSI-based solutions.
• Implement and manage RBAC, Security Context Constraints (SCC), service accounts, secrets, and security policies.
• Work with OpenShift Operators and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) to deploy and manage platform components.
• Automate infrastructure and platform deployment using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Bash, and/or Python.
• Troubleshoot complex OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, and container-related issues.
• Perform cluster health checks, capacity planning, performance optimization, and production readiness assessments.
• Develop technical documentation, deployment procedures, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Collaborate with application and DevOps teams to onboard workloads and establish deployment standards.
• Support CI/CD and DevOps integrations involving tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, Argo CD, Tekton, and OpenShift Pipelines.
• Participate in platform migrations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior engineers and consultants.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.x
• Advanced Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration
• OpenShift cluster installation and deployment
• OCP 4.x architecture and lifecycle management
• IPI / UPI deployment experience
• OpenShift networking and OVN-Kubernetes
• DNS, DHCP, load balancers, ingress, routes, and network policies
• OpenShift storage and CSI
• OpenShift Operators / OLM
• RBAC, SCC, security, certificates, and authentication
• LDAP / Active Directory integration
• Container technologies including CRI-O, Podman, and Docker
• Linux shell scripting
• Ansible automation
• Experience with Git and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Monitoring and logging concepts
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Installation and Configuration
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development
• Experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, VMware, or bare-metal OpenShift
• OpenShift Virtualization
• Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (ACS)
• OpenShift Service Mesh
• Argo CD / GitOps
• Jenkins / Tekton / OpenShift Pipelines
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Elasticsearch / OpenShift Logging
• Disaster recovery and multi-cluster architecture
• Experience working in large enterprise environments

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in Linux, infrastructure, Kubernetes, container platforms, or cloud technologies.
• 4+ years of hands-on OpenShift experience, preferably OCP 4.x.
• Proven experience leading enterprise OpenShift deployments and complex platform implementation projects.
• Strong consulting, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.