Red Hat OpenShift Administrator

Futops; Jaipur; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Futops in Jaipur, India, seeks an OpenShift Deployment, Administration & Cluster Management expert with 4+ years of on-premises experience to manage enterprise OpenShift clusters across dev, staging, and prod.

You will enforce RBAC, network policies, perform upgrades, and lead multi-tenant onboarding with Tekton and Argo CD, while coordinating with Red Hat stakeholders and client teams.

Qualifications

• Mandatory Experience: B.Tech/MCA with 4 years + of professional experience in managing on premise Container Management Platform. Should have Experience Certificates, Graduation Certificates & Marksheets
• OpenShift Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) administration, core Kubernetes concepts, and standard CLI tools.
• GitOps & CI/CD: Proven track record of implementing GitOps workflows. Direct, production-level experience with Argo CD and Tekton is highly preferred (experience with similar tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Flux alongside a willingness to adapt will be considered).
• Packaging: Strong proficiency in writing and managing Helm Charts to package complex applications

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and scale OpenShift clusters across development, staging, and production environments.
• Monitor cluster health, performance, and capacity; troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and storage issues.
• Implement and enforce RBAC, network policies, and cluster hardening.
• Handle cluster upgrades, patching, and backup/disaster recovery procedures.
• Troubleshooting production critical issues and Priority 1 tickets with Red Hat Global Support Service.
• Proficient in setting up OpenShift Clusters on multiple hypervisors including bare metals.
• Act as the bridge between infrastructure and development teams to onboard multi-tier applications onto OpenShift.
• Define multi-tenancy strategies, resource quotas, and limit ranges for onboarding teams.
• Provide guidance to developers on containerizing workloads and cloud-native best practices.
• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native CI pipelines using Tekton; manage CD workflows with Argo CD.
• Integrate security scanning, automated testing, and quality gates into deployment pipelines.
• Standardize deployments with Helm Charts and Kustomize; manage Helm repositories.
• Coordinate with Red Hat stakeholders and client teams; produce engagement reports and SOPs.
• Create SOPs for operational activities, critical updates, upgrades for roll-outs; provide daily and other reports.

Skills

OpenShift administration

Kubernetes concepts

GitOps

Tekton

Argo CD

Helm

Kustomize

CI/CD pipelines

Security best practices

Networking/storage troubleshooting

Education

B.Tech/MCA

Tools

Argo CD

Tekton

GitLab CI

Jenkins

OpenShift CLI (oc)

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

OpenShift Deployment, Administration & Cluster Management

Manage, maintain, and scale enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters across development, staging, and production environments.

Monitor cluster health, performance, and capacity; troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, and storage issues.

Implement and enforce robust security practices, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), network policies, and cluster hardening.

Handle cluster upgrades, patching, and backup/disaster recovery procedures.

Troubleshooting the production critical issues \ Priority 1 tickets in conjunction with Red Hat Global Support Service.

Proficient in setting up Openshift Clusters on multiple hypervisors including bare metals.

Application Onboarding & Developer Enablement

Act as the primary bridge between infrastructure and development teams to onboard multi-tier applications onto OpenShift.

Define and implement multi-tenancy strategies, resource quotas, and limit ranges for onboarding teams.

Provide guidance to developers on containerizing workloads and cloud-native best practices.

CI/CD Pipeline Automation (GitOps)

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native CI pipelines using Tekton (OpenShift Pipelines).

Manage continuous delivery (CD) workflows using Argo CD (OpenShift GitOps) to ensure declarative, automated, and repeatable application deployments.

Integrate security scanning, automated testing, and quality gates directly into the deployment pipelines.

Configuration Management & Packaging

Standardize application deployments by creating, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise Helm Charts and Kustomize.

Manage Helm repositories and ensure version-controlled, reusable configuration patterns across different environments.

Others

Work along with Various Client Stakeholders from Customer location

Work along with Redhat Stakeholders including but not limited to Redhat Support, Account Team, Consulting & Delivery team

Provide a report containing details of the engagement activities, findings and status

Creating SOP ( standard operating procedures) for Operational Activities, critical updates, upgrades for roll-outs

Provide Daily Report, other reports as required.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Mandatory Experience: B.Tech/MCA with 4 years + of professional experience in managing on premise Container Management Platform. Should have Experience Certificates, Graduation Certificates & Marksheets

OpenShift Expertise: Deep technical knowledge of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) administration, core Kubernetes concepts, and standard CLI tools.

GitOps & CI/CD: Proven track record of implementing GitOps workflows. Direct, production-level experience with Argo CD and Tekton is highly preferred (experience with similar tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Flux alongside a willingness to adapt will be considered).

Packaging: Strong proficiency in writing and managing Helm Charts to package complex applications