Senior OpenShift Engineer

DICETEK LLC; Abu Dhabi; Sur place; AED 360 000 - 600 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

DICETEK LLC in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced OpenShift Architect to design, implement, and operate enterprise OpenShift platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed services for banking workloads. You will drive hybrid cloud strategies, security, and compliance while guiding modernization initiatives.

The role requires 10+ years of IT experience and a strong background in OpenShift, automation, and multi-cloud integrations, with a focus on regulated environments.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of IT experience, preferably within the banking sector, with broad exposure to enterprise technology platforms.
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.

Responsabilités

• Design, architect, and operate enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed OpenShift services for regulated banking workloads.
• Define hybrid and multi-cloud OpenShift architecture, integrating on-prem OpenShift with cloud-hosted clusters while maintaining security, compliance, and operational consistency.
• Architect OpenShift solutions leveraging Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), including network connectivity, identity integration, and landing zone alignment.
• Build, configure, and maintain OpenShift cluster infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of OpenShift platforms: installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform health management.
• Act as a solution architect and technical advisor for container platforms, guiding application modernization and cloud-native adoption strategies.
• Plan and implement capacity and scaling strategies for OpenShift clusters across cloud and on-prem platforms based on business demand and SLAs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to OpenShift and platform engineers, promoting cloud and hybrid platform best practices.
• Lead or support small platform engineering teams, including task planning, technical reviews, and skill development.

Connaissances

OpenShift administration

Cloud architecture

Platform automation

Security and compliance

Formation

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Outils

OpenShift

Ansible

Terraform

Bash

Python

Argo CD

Tekton

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

Description du poste

Job Location Abu Dhabi (Work From Office)

Job Type Contract

Job Description

At least 10 years of IT experience, preferably within the banking sector, with broad exposure to enterprise technology platforms.

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Professional Qualifications

Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration

• Design, architect, and operate enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift (v4.x) platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed OpenShift services (ARO, ROSA) for regulated banking workloads.
• Define hybrid and multi-cloud OpenShift architecture, integrating on-prem OpenShift with cloud-hosted clusters while maintaining security, compliance, and operational consistency.
• Architect OpenShift solutions leveraging Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) and Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), including network connectivity, identity integration, and landing zone alignment.
• Build, configure, and maintain OpenShift cluster infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of OpenShift platforms: installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform health management.
• Act as a solution architect and technical advisor for container platforms, guiding application modernization and cloud-native adoption strategies.
• Design hybrid connectivity models between on-prem and cloud OpenShift clusters using VPN, private connectivity (e.g., ExpressRoute / Direct Connect-aligned designs), and secure ingress/egress patterns.
• Develop technical architectures, solution blueprints, and design documents for OpenShift-based platforms and cloud-integrated solutions.
• Prepare and deliver technical proposals, architecture presentations, and platform roadmaps to architecture review boards, leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Implement and manage OpenShift ecosystem components, including Operators, OperatorHub, OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), GitOps (Argo CD), and Service Mesh (Istio).
• Drive platform automation and standardization using Ansible, Terraform (where applicable), Bash, and Python across on-prem and cloud OpenShift environments.
• Enable and support CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for cloud and hybrid OpenShift clusters, ensuring controlled and compliant deployments.
• Integrate OpenShift with cloud-native services and enterprise tooling, including identity providers, container registries, monitoring, logging, and certificate management.
• Ensure security, risk, and compliance alignment across hybrid and cloud platforms, enforcing RBAC, network policies, cluster hardening, and banking regulatory standards.
• Integrate and manage container and cloud security tooling, including image scanning, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement (e.g., ACS, Trivy).
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance, availability, and reliability issues across on-prem and cloud OpenShift clusters, providing root cause analysis and remediation.
• Design and operate centralized observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK) for hybrid OpenShift environments.
• Plan and execute capacity and scaling strategies for OpenShift clusters across cloud and on-prem platforms based on business demand and SLAs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to OpenShift and platform engineers, promoting cloud and hybrid platform best practices.
• Lead or support small platform engineering teams, including task planning, technical reviews, and skill development.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, networking, SRE, and application teams to deliver secure, stable, and compliant OpenShift platforms.
• Provide 24/7 production support and incident leadership, ensuring fast recovery and minimal impact to critical banking services.
• Contribute to platform governance, standards definition, and continuous improvement of enterprise container and hybrid cloud platforms.

Skills