Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer

Prodapt Solutions; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Prodapt Solutions is seeking a Senior OpenShift/Kubernetes Engineer in Chennai to maintain cluster health, manage deployments, and resolve critical production issues. The role requires hands-on expertise with OpenShift and Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and incident management.

You will support migrations and upgrades across environments while coordinating with cross-functional teams. The candidate should have around 6 years of experience in container platforms and production operations, with

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps / Kubernetes / OpenShift administration.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and admin tasks.
• Experience configuring Jenkins deployments and pipelines.
• Proven production troubleshooting and incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Manage deployments across clusters and troubleshoot issues.
• Configure Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and deployment parameters.
• Perform production troubleshooting across pods, services, and cluster resources.
• Coordinate P1 incidents and root cause analysis within SLAs.
• Perform cluster upgrades and operator upgrades with validation.
• Monitor cluster health and resource usage; guide migrations.

Skills

DevOps/Kubernetes/OpenShift admin

Red Hat OpenShift hands-on

Kubernetes concepts

Jenkins deployments/pipelines

Production troubleshooting

P1 incident handling

Cluster upgrades

Operator upgrades

Pods/Deployments/Services/Ingress

Linux CLI troubleshooting

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Engineer with around 6 years of experience in container platforms, deployment automation, production troubleshooting, and cluster administration. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining cluster health, managing deployments and upgrades, resolving critical production issues, and supporting application migrations.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments.
• Manage and troubleshoot application deployments across OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters.
• Configure and maintain Jenkins deployments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Configure Jenkins pipeline jobs, deployment parameters, and automation workflows.
• Perform production troubleshooting across pods, deployments, services, routes, storage, networking, and cluster resources.
• Handle P1/critical production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution within defined SLAs.
• Perform OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades and validate cluster health after upgrades.
• Manage and perform Operator upgrades, including validation and troubleshooting of Operator-related issues.
• Monitor and maintain overall cluster health, including nodes, workloads, resource utilization, operators, storage, and networking.
• Troubleshoot issues during deployment migrations between environments/clusters.
• Understand the complete application and infrastructure environment to identify dependencies and troubleshoot issues effectively.
• Analyze logs, events, pod status, resource utilization, and deployment configurations to identify root causes.
• Collaborate with application, middleware, DevOps, and infrastructure teams during deployments and production incidents.
• Follow change-management, incident-management, and operational procedures.
• Prepare technical documentation, troubleshooting guides, and post-incident RCA documents.

Required Technical Skills

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps / Kubernetes / OpenShift administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
• Good knowledge of Kubernetes concepts and administration.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins deployments and pipeline configuration.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident-management skills.
• Experience handling P1 / critical production incidents.
• Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades.
• Experience with Operator installation, management, and upgrades.
• Good understanding of pods, deployments, StatefulSets, Services, Routes/Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs/PVs, RBAC, nodes, and namespaces.
• Good understanding of application deployment and migration processes.
• Strong understanding of cluster health monitoring and capacity/resource management.
• Good knowledge of Linux and command-line troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with enterprise production OpenShift environments.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Kafka or other middleware platforms is an advantage.
• Knowledge of monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and incident-management skills.

Key Competencies

• OpenShift/Kubernetes Administration | Jenkins CI/CD | Production Troubleshooting | P1 Incident Management | Cluster Upgrades | Operator Upgrades | Deployment Migration | Cluster Health Management | Root Cause Analysis