The OpenShift Administrator will be responsible for monitoring, installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the Red Hat OpenShift cluster.
This role involves providing technical support, troubleshooting problems, and performing scripting/programming to ensure stable and efficient operation of the OpenShift environment.
Essential functions include performing installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the OpenShift Cluster.
The candidate should have experience in OpenShift UPI and IPI 4.x clusters.
The role requires ensuring that technologies are updated with current, stable, and compliant architecture and applications that meet enterprise standards.
Expert-level experience with Kubernetes networking and troubleshooting (DNS, load balancers, service IPs, node ports, etc.) is necessary.
The administrator will proactively monitor and report performance and utilization of assigned technologies.
Responsibilities include log management and monitoring using tools like Splunk, fluentd, HEC, etc., in an OpenShift environment.
Maintaining the health and optimal state for OpenShift clusters is a key duty.
The role involves managing problem or escalated tickets and tasks and handling out-of-cycle requests from systems/software owners.
The administrator will perform OpenShift cluster upgrades as needed and assist with developing tactical strategies, processes, and procedures related to systems/application administration.
Architecting OpenShift as needed to meet application requirements (compute, storage, networking, and operations) is part of the job.
Mid-level expertise with OpenShift, Dockers, and Containers (minimum 5+ years hands-on) is required.
Experience with testing and deployment pipelines, and using Ansible, Jenkins for CI/CD is necessary.
The candidate may provide input into infrastructure architecture designs and write programming/scripting.
Participation in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises may be required.
The administrator must ensure execution and alignment to architectural standards and blueprints and may contribute input to infrastructure architecture.
On-call activities may be necessary for the environment and technologies.
Requirements:
Extensive working knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes Platform is required.
The candidate must be competent working in one or more environments highly integrated with an operating system.
Extensive experience implementing and administering/managing technical solutions in major, large-scale system implementations is necessary.
High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that align with business objectives and strategy are essential.
The ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities is required.
The candidate should have the ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance.
Clear and articulate communication of technical information is necessary.
The ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment is required.
Experience using Agile methodology is preferred.
Required experience includes 5-8 years of Systems Administration with Unix/Linux environments and 2-5 years of related work experience in OpenShift.
A Bachelor's degree within the IT field or equivalent related work experience is required.
Certifications required include Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, with Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Development preferred.
Benefits:
This position offers tremendous career growth potential within an established and well-respected organization.
The role is fully remote, providing flexibility in work location.
Bright Vision Technologies is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering an inclusive work environment.
The company encourages applications from all qualified individuals, ensuring a diverse workplace.
Accommodations during the recruitment process are available upon request.
