Openshift Developer

EY; Chennai District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

EY in Chennai is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to deploy and manage containerized applications on OpenShift and Kubernetes. You will design and maintain Helm charts, manifests, and CI/CD pipelines, coordinating releases across multiple environments.

Bring 5–8 years of hands-on experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. Strong scripting skills and collaboration across dev and ops are essential for reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or IT.
• 5–8 years of experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes, and DevOps.
• Strong hands-on deployment on OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• In-depth knowledge of OpenShift resources (projects, pods, deployments, routes, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, RBAC).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Tekton).
• Familiar with Git workflows, release tagging, and artifact promotion.
• Linux administration, shell scripting, networking basics, DNS, certificates.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and manage stacks on OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Support end-to-end container deployment across environments.
• Create deployment manifests, Helm charts, templates, ConfigMaps, Secrets, routes, services, and PVCs.
• Build CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent tools for automated builds, deployments, promotions, and rollback.
• Coordinate release deployments, environment promotions, validations, and post-deployment checks.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, pod issues, image pull errors, networking issues, storage issues, and runtime errors.
• Work with developers and operations teams to onboard applications to OpenShift and improve deployment reliability.
• Automate repetitive deployment and operational activities using Shell, Bash, Python, or Ansible.
• Monitor application health, logs, resource utilization, and platform events to support incident resolution and service availability.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, SOPs, configuration documents, release notes, and operational handover documents.

Skills

OpenShift

Kubernetes

DevOps

CI/CD

Jenkins

Git

Linux

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Helm

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and manage application stacks on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms.
• Support end-to-end containerized application deployment across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Create and maintain deployment manifests, Helm charts, templates, ConfigMaps, Secrets, routes, services, and persistent volume configurations.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent tools for automated build, deployment, promotion, and rollback.
• Coordinate release deployments, environment promotions, application validations, and post-deployment checks.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, pod issues, image pull errors, networking issues, storage issues, pipeline failures, and application runtime errors.
• Work with developers and operations teams to onboard applications to OpenShift and improve deployment reliability.
• Automate repetitive deployment and operational activities using Shell, Bash, Python, or Ansible.
• Monitor application health, logs, resource utilization, and platform events to support incident resolution and service availability.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, SOPs, configuration documents, release notes, and operational handover documents.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology.
• 5–8 years of relevant experience in OpenShift, Kubernetes, DevOps, release engineering, or application deployment support.
• Strong hands‑on experience in deploying and supporting application stacks on Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of OpenShift resources including projects/namespaces, pods, deployments, services, routes, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, and RBAC.
• Experience with container images, image registries, build configurations, deployment configurations, and application rollout strategies.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Tekton, or similar platforms.
• Working knowledge of Git, branching strategies, release tagging, artifact promotion, and deployment governance.
• Experience in Linux administration, shell scripting, networking basics, DNS, certificates, and application connectivity troubleshooting.
• Ability to analyze logs, events, pipeline output, pod status, resource limits, and application errors to resolve deployment issues.
• Strong communication, documentation, coordination, and problem‑solving skills in a multi‑team delivery environment.

Good to Have Skills

• Exposure to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or hybrid cloud infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, OpenShift GitOps, or OpenShift Pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code or automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or OpenShift monitoring stack.
• Awareness of container security practices, image scanning, secrets management, RBAC, and security context constraints.
• Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, DevOps, or cloud certifications will be an added advantage.