Senior Red Hat OpenShift Administrator / Engineer

GSS Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GSS Group is seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Administrator to manage large-scale OpenShift clusters and drive automation across the platform.

You will work on Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Argo CD, and Helm-based deployments, collaborating with security, networking, and development teams to ensure resilience and scalable operations.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Administration and enterprise OpenShift clusters.
• RH OpenShift Administrator certification preferred/required.
• Experience with installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, troubleshooting, and management of OpenShift environments.
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, upgrade, and manage large-scale OpenShift clusters.
• Perform platform administration, troubleshooting, monitoring, and capacity management.
• Design and implement automation for OpenShift infrastructure and deployments.
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Implement GitOps-driven configuration management using Argo CD.
• Support migration of workloads to cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Git workflows.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, and operations.
• Develop Helm charts for packaging and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve platform issues.

Skills

Red Hat OpenShift Administration

OpenShift Platform Administration

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitOps

Argo CD

Cloud migration

Platform engineering

REST/SOAP APIs

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Argo CD

KubeVirt/OpenShift Virtualization

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator with strong expertise in enterprise OpenShift environments, automation, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, GitOps, cloud migration, and platform engineering.

The ideal candidate should have extensive hands-on experience managing large-scale OpenShift clusters and a strong understanding of the underlying infrastructure, networking, security, virtualization, and automation ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, administer, upgrade, and manage large-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Perform OpenShift platform administration, troubleshooting, monitoring, performance optimization, and capacity management.
• Design and implement automation for OpenShift infrastructure and application deployments.
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment using tools such as Argo CD.
• Support migration of enterprise applications and workloads to cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git-based workflows.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, and operational activities.
• Develop and maintain Helm charts for application packaging and deployment.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure, security, networking, and application teams to resolve complex platform issues.
• Integrate OpenShift and enterprise platforms through REST/SOAP APIs.
• Develop API consumers/publishers and support integration with external systems.
• Support high-availability architectures and ensure platform reliability and resilience.
• Troubleshoot complex issues involving OpenShift, networking, DNS, SSL/TLS, certificates, load balancers, firewalls, Active Directory, and infrastructure components.

Mandatory Technical Skills

Red Hat OpenShift

• Strong hands-on expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Administration.
• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification preferred/required.
• Extensive experience with installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, troubleshooting, and management of enterprise OpenShift clusters.
• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization / KubeVirt.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Expert-level experience with:
• • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, orchestration, and automation practices.

CI/CD & GitOps

• Strong experience implementing GitOps-based deployment models.
• Hands-on experience with Argo CD / ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge of Jenkins pipeline development.
• Ability to write and maintain Jenkinsfiles using Groovy.
• Experience with Helm and Helm chart development.

Scripting & Automation
Excellent scripting/programming capabilities using:

• Bash
• PowerShell