Senior OpenShift Engineer

About the role

This role is a senior OpenShift engineer who designs, architects and operates enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift platforms for regulated banking workloads, across on-premises, private cloud and managed OpenShift services (ARO, ROSA). It also covers hybrid and multi-cloud architecture, platform governance and 24/7 production support.

Key responsibilities

• Design, architect and operate OpenShift v4.x platforms on bare-metal, virtualized and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress and security.
• Build hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, integrating on-prem OpenShift with cloud-hosted clusters and defining secure ingress/egress patterns.
• Manage the full lifecycle: installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling and platform health.
• Implement Operators, OperatorHub, Tekton, Argo CD and Istio, and enable CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Integrate with identity providers, container registries, monitoring, logging and certificate management.
• Ensure security, risk and compliance, including RBAC, network policies, cluster hardening and banking regulatory standards, with image scanning and vulnerability management.
• Set up centralized observability (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK) and provide 24/7 incident leadership.
• Deliver technical proposals, architecture presentations and roadmaps to architecture review boards and leadership.
• Mentor platform engineers, lead small platform teams and collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, networking and SRE teams.

Required profile

• At least 10 years of IT experience, preferably in the banking sector.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
• ITIL Foundation certification.

Required skills

• Red Hat OpenShift v4.x, ARO and ROSA
• Ansible, Terraform, Bash and Python
• Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK, Tekton, Argo CD, Istio
• CI/CD and GitOps workflows