Open Shift Platform Engineer

Motive; Canada; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

MOTIVE is hiring an OpenShift Platform Engineer to architect and deploy OpenShift clusters across bare metal, VMware, and public cloud. You will serve as the OCP SME, collaborate with multiple teams, and drive lifecycle operations, security, and automation.

In this role, you will enable workload mobility between on-prem and cloud and ensure high availability and disaster recovery through robust backup strategies. Remote work in Canada with Ontario focus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering or platform operations.
• 3+ years of hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering in production environments.
• Proficient in container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and OpenShift ecosystem tools.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMware, bare metal, and public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with hybrid workload migrations and managing cost/resource trade-offs across environments.
• Proven expertise in backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations.
• Experience hardening and securing environments with RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy OpenShift (OCP) clusters in production across bare metal, VMware, and public cloud.
• Serve as the primary OCP SME, driving best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with networking, OS, DB, and applications teams to integrate services.
• Lead cluster lifecycle operations including patching, upgrades, and backup/restore for HA/DR.
• Enable workload migration between on-prem and cloud environments (hybrid deployments).
• Drive infrastructure security and hardening to align with regulated, large-scale environments.
• Automate provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD and IaC principles.
• Maintain cluster observability with logging, metrics, and alerting.

Skills

OpenShift platform engineering

Kubernetes internals

Infrastructure architecture

Hybrid workload migrations

Security hardening

CI/CD pipelines

IaC principles

Tools

VMware

Public cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps tooling

Monitoring/logging tools

Job description

Open Shift Platform Engineer### Open Shift Platform EngineerApply: Remote, Ontario, Canada: Full time: Posted 5 Days Ago: End Date: November 20, 2026 (11 days left to apply): JR108295**Open Shift Platform Engineer****Key Responsibilities:*** + **Architect and deploy** OpenShift (OCP) clusters in production environments across bare metal, VMWare, and public cloud platforms. + Serve as the **primary OCP subject matter expert**, driving best practices and standards across the organization. + Work closely with internal teams (networking, OS, DB, applications) to integrate services and support workloads. + Lead **cluster lifecycle operations**, including patching, upgrades, and **backup/restore** strategies for high availability and disaster recovery. + Enable **workload migration** between on-prem and cloud environments (e.g., hybrid deployments) for optimization of performance, cost, and capacity. + Drive **infrastructure security and hardening**, aligning with best practices in regulated and large-scale environments. + Automate cluster provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles. + Maintain cluster observability and performance using logging, metrics, and alerting tools.**Required Skills & Experience:*** + 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or platform operations. + 3+ years of **hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering** in production environments. + Proficient in **container orchestration**, **Kubernetes internals**, and OpenShift ecosystem tools. + Deep knowledge of **infrastructure architecture** across VMWare, bare metal, and public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure). + Experience with **hybrid workload migrations** and managing cost/resource trade-offs across environments. + Proven expertise in **backup/restore** procedures, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations. + Experience hardening and securing environments with **RBAC**, **SELinux**, **TLS**, **logging**, and **audit trails**. + Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools such as **Ansible**, **Terraform**, **GitOps**.**Nice-to-Have:*** + OpenShift certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration). + Experience in managed services or telco/broadband environments. + Familiarity with database and storage integration in containerized workloads. + Exposure to compliance and security standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).Remote: Ontario, Canada85K- 95KMOTIVE gives equal opportunity in employment regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, or any other factor. MOTIVE will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement, do not submit resumes/CV's directly.By answering to this job post, you consent the use of your data by MOTIVE, for as long as necessary. We conduct regular data-cleansing and updating exercises to make sure the information we have is relevant and accurate. If you have any doubt or request to make relatively to your personal data, please send an e-mail.### About usMotive is the world's leading provider of device and service management solutions. Our Device Management Software enables communication service providers to remotely manage multiple brands and types of home broadband access devices. Our Service Management Software improves customer care service, with coverage spanning more than 150 deployments around the globe and more than 1 billion devices under management.