Remote-First Platform Engineer: OpenShift Automation

LSD Open; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 300,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-From-Home Flexibility

Free Red Hat Certifications

Home Office Budget

Holistic Support

Generous PTO

Job summary

LSD Open seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build and optimise enterprise platforms across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. You will operate autonomously, act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and mentor junior engineers in a high-impact, customer-facing role.

You will support pre-sales, identify growth opportunities and contribute to solution design, while driving platform reliability and security across multiple engagements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on Red Hat OpenShift experience.
• Proven experience with multiple Red Hat technologies.
• Strong CI/CD and GitOps experience: ArgoCD, Flux, GitLab, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana and/or Elastic.
• RHEL administration at scale.
• Experience managing customers from both a technical and commercial perspective.
• Mentoring and supporting other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and optimise platforms across the full technology stack.
• Own platform life cycle, including availability, scalability, security and performance.
• Engineer enterprise Red Hat OpenShift / Kubernetes environments.
• Automate delivery and operations using mature DevSecOps, CI/CD and GitOps practices.
• Act as the primary technical relationship owner for customer engagements.
• Resolve complex platform and MKS issues and lead critical incident resolution.
• Identify continuous improvement, automation and standardisation opportunities.
• Mentor Platform Engineers and Junior Platform Engineers and review delivery quality.
• Support sales, solution design, proposals and pricing.
• Identify up-sell and extension opportunities within existing customer accounts.
• Manage delivery scope, utilisation and margin to protect commercial outcomes.
• Travel across the Middle East, Africa and internationally as required.

Skills

OpenShift

CI/CD

GitOps

RHEL

AWS

Observability

Kubernetes

Mentoring

Customer engagement

Education

RHCA

3 Red Hat certifications

CKA/CKAD/CKS advantageous

AWS certifications advantageous

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

GitLab

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic

Ansible

Job description

LSD Open seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build and optimise enterprise platforms across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments. You will operate autonomously, act as a trusted technical advisor to customers and mentor junior engineers in a high-impact, customer-facing role.

You will support pre-sales, identify growth opportunities and contribute to solution design, while driving platform reliability and security across multiple engagements.