OpenShift

HCL Technologies Limited; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HCL Technologies Limited seeks a hands-on platform engineer to design, deploy, and operate EKS environments in AWS. You will drive automation, manage Kubernetes/OpenShift components, and collaborate across engineering teams to support production platforms.

The role emphasizes incident response, security best practices, and scalable platform patterns using IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling such as Argo CD.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineer with practical EKS in AWS.
• Strong automation-first mindset and scripting/infra-as-code ability.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple teams.
• Comfortable leading troubleshooting for production environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support large-scale Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Perform cluster upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, and platform maintenance.
• Troubleshoot cluster, node, networking, storage, and deployment issues.
• Manage OpenShift Operators, MachineConfig, RBAC, SCCs, monitoring, and logging solutions.
• Support onboarding of application teams onto the platform.
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and improvements.

Skills

EKS

AWS

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Argo CD

Tools

RBAC

SCCs

Monitoring

Logging

Job description

We are looking for a hands-on platform engineer who:

• Has practical experience building and operating EKS environments in AWS.
• Enjoys solving complex infrastructure and platform challenges.
• Has a strong automation-first mindset.
• Can work independently while collaborating across multiple engineering teams.
• Is comfortable leading troubleshooting efforts and supporting critical production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support large-scale Red Hat OpenShift environments.
• Perform cluster upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, and platform maintenance.
• Troubleshoot cluster, node, networking, storage, and application deployment issues.
• Manage OpenShift Operators, MachineConfig, RBAC, SCCs, monitoring, and logging solutions.
• Support onboarding of application teams onto the platform.
• Participate in production incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.

AWS EKS Platform Enablement

• Design, deploy, and manage Amazon EKS clusters in AWS.
• Implement and maintain EKS networking, IAM integration, security controls, and observability solutions.
• Define and implement platform operating models, governance controls, and platform best practices.
• Support deployment patterns using Helm, Kubernetes manifests, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and Architecture teams on EKS platform evolution.

Automation & DevOps

• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and cloud-native automation tooling.
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines for containerized workloads.
• Support GitOps-based deployment approaches using Argo CD or similar technologies.
• Automate operational tasks, health checks, validation, compliance reporting, and platform deployments.
• Contribute to platform engineering standards, documentation, and reusable deployment patterns.

Security & Compliance

• Implement Kubernetes and OpenShift security best practices.
• Support vulnerability remediation and platform hardening initiatives.
• Integrate container security scanning, secrets management, audit logging, and compliance controls.
• Ensure platform services meet enterprise security and regulatory requirements.