Senior Remote OpenShift Platform Engineer (Ontario)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within Canada

Full-time employment

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks an OpenShift Platform Engineer in Canada to design, deploy, and operate enterprise OpenShift environments across bare‑metal, VMware, and cloud, with a focus on security, reliability, and performance. This role emphasizes platform ownership, automation, and cross‑team collaboration.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in infra/plat‑ops and 3+ years hands‑on OpenShift production experience, plus strong RBAC, GitOps, and CI/CD skills.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in infrastructure engineering or platform operations.
• At least 3 years of hands‑on experience engineering and operating OpenShift (OCP) platforms in production environments.
• Strong understanding of container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and the broader OpenShift ecosystem.
• In‑depth knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMware, bare‑metal environments, and public cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience managing hybrid infrastructure and migrating workloads between on‑premises and cloud environments, including the ability to assess cost, performance, and resource trade‑offs.
• Proven expertise in backup and restoration processes, disaster recovery planning, and high‑availability configurations.
• Practical experience securing and hardening infrastructure using role‑based access control (RBAC), SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure‑as‑code or GitOps tools, such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Strong infrastructure troubleshooting, analytical, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain production OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters across bare‑metal infrastructure, VMware, and public cloud environments.
• Act as the primary OpenShift subject matter expert, establishing technical standards, best practices, and platform engineering guidelines across the organization.
• Collaborate with networking, operating systems, database, and application teams to integrate infrastructure services and support business‑critical workloads.
• Lead cluster lifecycle management, including provisioning, patching, upgrades, maintenance, and ongoing platform optimization.
• Design and implement backup and restoration strategies, high‑availability configurations, and disaster recovery procedures to ensure platform resilience.
• Enable workload migrations between on‑premises and cloud environments, supporting hybrid deployments and optimizing performance, infrastructure costs, and resource capacity.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Security best practices

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps

VMware

Public cloud

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks an OpenShift Platform Engineer in Canada to design, deploy, and operate enterprise OpenShift environments across bare‑metal, VMware, and cloud, with a focus on security, reliability, and performance. This role emphasizes platform ownership, automation, and cross‑team collaboration.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in infra/plat‑ops and 3+ years hands‑on OpenShift production experience, plus strong RBAC, GitOps, and CI/CD skills.