DevOps PaaS - Sr. Technology Engineer

Synechron; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron in Bengaluru, India, is seeking a Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer to lead administration of large-scale OpenShift clusters, implement IaC, and drive GitOps across enterprise environments. The role demands hands-on expertise with OpenShift, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and cloud migrations, along with strong security and HA considerations.

You will collaborate with development, security, and infrastructure teams to design scalable platform solutions, ensure high availability,

Qualifications

• Hands-on OpenShift administration expertise.
• Experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and GitOps.
• Experience migrating apps to cloud platforms and securing clusters.
• Strong understanding of HA, disaster recovery, and enterprise IAM.
• Knowledge of DNS, SSL/TLS, and Vault solutions for secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, automate, and manage large-scale OpenShift clusters.
• Design infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Lead and support application migrations to cloud platforms.
• Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize OpenShift performance, availability, and security.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and security teams for platform stability.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift virtualization (KubeVirt).

Skills

OpenShift Administration

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud migration

Container platform operations

DNS concepts

SSL/TLS

Active Directory

Vault (CyberArk/HashiCorp)

KubeVirt

High Availability

Job description

Job Title: Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer / OpenShift Administrator

Experience: 8+ Years

Location: BLR GTP

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift administration, cloud migration, automation, and infrastructure management. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience managing large‑scale OpenShift clusters, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and driving DevOps/GitOps practices in enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, automate, and manage large-scale Red Hat OpenShift Clusters.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Lead and support application migrations to cloud platforms.
• Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment processes.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize OpenShift platform performance, availability, and security.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure platform stability and scalability.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical services.
• Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift virtualization (KubeVirt).

Required Skills & Expertise

• Strong hands‑on experience with OpenShift Administration.
• Expertise in Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with cloud migration and container platform operations.
• Good understanding of REST/SOAP APIs, including developing API consumers and publishers.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure concepts and enterprise platform architecture.
• Understanding of OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).
• Expertise in DNS concepts:
  • Authoritative & Non-Authoritative DNS
  • Dynamic DNS & BIND DNS
  • DNS Forwarders
• Strong understanding of SSL/TLS communications, including:
  • SSL Handshake
  • Cipher Suites
  • Encryption Algorithms
• Experience with Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies.
• Knowledge of Certificates Management:
  • SAN Certificates
  • Client Authentication
  • Keystores
  • Mutual SSL (mTLS)
• Experience managing Load Balancers, Firewalls, and Site Selectors.
• Hands‑on experience with Vault solutions such as CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.
• Strong understanding of High Availability (HA) and resilient infrastructure design.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise‑scale Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications are highly desirable.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Mandatory Skills:

OpenShift Administration, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitOps, Cloud Migration, Kubernetes/OpenShift, DNS, SSL/TLS, Active Directory, Vault (CyberArk/HashiCorp), High Availability.

S YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all.

We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

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