Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift
Pay: $67 per hour Work Mode: Hybrid *Please include your Linkedin on your resume* Job Summary: Seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer with strong Red Hat OpenShift and Linux systems engineering expertise. This role focuses on designing, deploying, and operating enterprise-scale OpenShift platforms in on-prem datacenter environments, working closely with SRE teams and program management. Key Responsibilities: Platform Engineering Design, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters in on-prem datacenter environments. Architect highly available, scalable, and secure OpenShift platforms. Implement cluster lifecycle management (installation, upgrades, patching, scaling). Configure networking, storage, ingress, and security components for OpenShift. Infrastructure Build & Automation Build and automate infrastructure in datacenter environments (compute, storage, networking). Integrate OpenShift with virtualization platforms (VMware/other hypervisors as applicable). Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar. Implement CI/CD pipelines for platform deployments and updates. Linux Systems Engineering Provide deep Linux system administration and troubleshooting support. Optimize OS-level configurations for performance, reliability, and security. Automate system configuration and compliance management. Diagnose and resolve complex kernel, networking, and storage issues. Reliability & Operations Partner closely with the SRE team to establish SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, and alerting. Drive observability implementation (logging, metrics, tracing). Participate in incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and remediation. Ensure platform resiliency, performance tuning, and capacity planning. Program & Cross-Functional Collaboration Work with Program Management to drive large-scale OpenShift implementation milestones. Provide technical input into roadmap planning, timelines, and risk mitigation. Collaborate with security, networking, storage, and application teams. Document architecture, standards, and operational procedures. Security & Compliance Implement RBAC, security policies, and compliance controls within OpenShift. Harden clusters according to enterprise security standards. Support vulnerability management and patch governance processes. Required Qualifications: 5 years of Linux systems engineering experience. 3 years hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x preferred). Experience with on-prem infrastructure and datacenter environments. Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, networking, storage, and virtualization. Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps). Preferred Qualifications: Red Hat certifications (RHCE, OpenShift). Experience with enterprise-scale OpenShift deployments. Familiarity with SRE practices, DevOps/GitOps, and monitoring tools.