OpenShift Platform Engineer

Insight Global; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to support Red Hat OpenShift environments at RBC. The role involves upgrading OpenShift, mentoring staff, and ensuring best practices. Ideal candidates should have 6+ years of experience, strong skills in Ansible automation, and proficiency in Linux administration. This role is based in Toronto, Ontario.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience required.
• Proficient in Ansible automation, able to write and read playbooks.
• Experience with on-prem OpenShift environments.
• Strong Linux administration skills.

Responsibilities

• Upgrade OpenShift environments and troubleshoot related issues.
• Coordinate project kickoff meetings and manage resources.
• Participate in escalated support activities for OpenShift technologies.

Skills

Ansible automation

Linux administration

DevOps tooling

OpenShift

Job description

Position Overview

Join the OpenShift Platform Engineering team on-premises at RBC. You will assist RBC in supporting Red Hat OpenShift 4.12 and 4.14 environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively participate in upgrading OpenShift.
• Provide suggestions and share knowledge on configuring Red Hat OpenShift and related Open Source and vendor technologies.
• Assist with projects, planning, architecture designs, installation, configuration, and patching of OpenShift instances.
• Perform standard system administration tasks such as designing, building, supporting, and troubleshooting OpenShift.
• Conduct OpenShift performance tuning, optimization, and system hardening.
• Review RBC health check and maintenance scripts.
• Ensure best practices for infrastructure settings.
• Develop and maintain executive and operational dashboards to visualize progress on success metrics.
• Participate in escalated support activities for OpenShift-related issues.
• Document OpenShift architecture, design, and integrated components in RBC internal knowledge repositories.
• Mentor RBC staff on OpenShift technology.
• Contribute to developing an RBC security standard for containers.

Project (Delivery) Manager Responsibilities

• Conduct project kickoff meetings with the client and consultant.
• Collaborate with the Client Project Manager to determine key objectives.
• Coordinate Red Hat support/engineering resources as needed.
• Provide briefings on resource utilization and activity.

Skills and Requirements

• 6+ years of experience.
• Proficiency in Ansible automation, including writing and reading playbooks.
• Experience with on-prem OpenShift.
• Strong Linux administration skills. Experience with Ansible Platform Tower.
• Familiarity with DevOps tooling such as Jenkins and CICS.

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