IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator

InnovationTeam; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

InnovationTeam is seeking an OpenShift CP4I Operations/Administrator to design, deploy, secure, and manage an enterprise hybrid-cloud integration platform. You will work across CP4I components on OpenShift, ensuring high availability and scalable pipelines in a challenging environment.

Responsibilities include cluster deployment, operator-driven CP4I management, security enforcement, storage design, and proactive diagnostics. Strong OpenShift, CP4I, and DevOps tooling experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical discipline
• Core Engineering Track Record: Deep, practical engineering experience managing production-grade OpenShift clusters and CP4I components
• Architecture & Pattern Competency: Knowledge of SDN/OVN, Ingress/Route, Istio, network policies, and container security
• Security & Protocol Familiarity: Understanding of enterprise integration patterns, containerized queues, and API lifecycles
• Analytical Evaluation: Strong debugging and analytical skills for container density and compute sizing

Responsibilities

• Plan, architect, install, and configure OpenShift clusters across hybrid environments
• Manage and configure CP4I components via IBM operators (MQ, API Connect, ACE, Event Streams)
• Enforce RBAC and manage OAuth integrations and TLS certificates
• Design storage and lifecycle plans with zero-downtime upgrades and patching
• Troubleshoot cluster degradation, PV failures, and network issues using monitoring tools

Skills

OpenShift

CP4I

RBAC

Istio

Container security

GitOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

CLI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

RHOCP

OKD

Kubernetes

CoreOS

IBM CP4I

IBM MQ

API Connect

ACE

Event Streams

DataPower

Ansible

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

OLM Operators

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Tekton

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Position Overview

The IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator is a systems infrastructure specialist responsible for designing, deploying, securing, and maintaining our enterprise hybrid-cloud integration architecture. Sitting at the intersection of Cloud DevOps and Middleware Engineering, this role focuses on the end-to-end administration of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) to guarantee high availability and continuous automated pipeline scaling.

Core Responsibilities

• Cluster & CP4I Deployment: Plan, architect, install, and configure Red Hat OpenShift clusters across hybrid cloud environments, provisioning the core IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) platform using Operator Lifecycle Managers (OLM)
• Integration Component Management: Manage and lifecycle-configure core CP4I capabilities via their respective IBM operators, including IBM MQ, API Connect, App Connect (ACE), Event Streams (Kafka), and Aspera
• Security & Identity Governance: Secure cluster infrastructures by enforcing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), managing Red Hat OpenShift OAuth integrations, Keycloak/IAM identity layers, and SSL/TLS certificate configurations
• Compute, Storage & Lifecycle: Architect container persistent storage layers using Software-Defined Storage engines and schedule seamless cluster upgrades, security patching, and node updates with a zero-downtime objective
• Performance Diagnostics & Triage: Configure APM surveillance dashboards, automate multi-tenant provisioning using GitOps paradigms, and systematically troubleshoot complex cluster degradation events, persistent volume failures, and pod networking drops

Requirements

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical system discipline
• Core Engineering Track Record: Deep, practical engineering experience managing production-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters and administering IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components
• Architecture & Pattern Competency: Solid knowledge of Software-Defined Networking (SDN/OVN), Ingress/Route architectures, service meshes (Istio), network policies, and container security compliance scanning
• Security & Protocol Familiarity: Strong technical comprehension of enterprise integration patterns, containerized message-queuing mechanics, and API lifecycle architectures
• Analytical Evaluation: Exceptional analytical and systemic debugging capabilities, possessing a high technical attention to container density logs and compute sizing variables

Technical Toolkit & Systems

• Core Development Environments: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP), OKD, Kubernetes, CoreOS, IBM CP4I, IBM MQ, API Connect, ACE, Event Streams, DataPower
• Programming Languages & UI Engines: Linux CLI, Bash, Python scripting, OpenShift CLI (oc), kubectl
• Networking, Core APIs & Engines: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), Ceph, Portworx, CSI plugins, AWS EBS/EFS
• Dependency & Repository Managers: Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Customize, OLM Operators, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Logging, Sysdig
• Enterprise Project Management Suites: Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO), or Microsoft TFS

Collaboration & Soft Skills

• High-Stakes Resolution & Composure: Maintains absolute composure and structured focus when critical, production cluster failures or microservice outages emerge. Coordinates systematic fixes and clear mitigation strategies under pressure, keeping high-availability platforms operational
• Distributed Workspace Collaborative Partner: Highly capable of performing smoothly across remote or hybrid team environments, translating complex container infrastructure realities into actionable deployment guidelines for integration teams
• Pristine Quality Advocate: Constantly champions structural automation, infrastructure-as-code consistency, and strict platform compliance, steering teams away from localized, manually modified configuration anti-patterns
• Language & Communication Excellence: Fluent English (written and verbal) is required. Spoken and written Arabic is highly advantageous and preferred