Role
Lead consultant
Technology
OpenShift (On-Prem & Azure)
Business Unit
MFGADM
Compensation
Competitive (including bonus)
Your role
We are seeking a highly motivated and hands‑on Lead Consultant with strong expertise in OpenShift (on‑premises and Azure cloud) to join our team. This role will be responsible for designing, implementing, migrating, and automating platform and application workloads on OpenShift.
The ideal candidate will have deep experience managing large‑scale, mission‑critical Kubernetes environments and a passion for building reliable, scalable, and secure platform solutions.
Key responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage OpenShift clusters across on‑premises and Azure environments
- Lead platform modernization, migration, and transformation initiatives to OpenShift
- Automate deployment, scaling, and lifecycle management of applications and infrastructure
- Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure‑as‑code, and automation scripts
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve issues across container platforms
- Implement and enforce security, compliance, and operational best practices
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to optimize application deployment
- Support and enhance observability, logging, and monitoring frameworks
Required
- Strong hands‑on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (on‑prem and Azure cloud)
- Proven experience managing large‑scale Kubernetes infrastructure
- Experience with cluster installation, upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management
- Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker/CRI‑O)
- Expertise in platform automation using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed environments
- Working knowledge of networking, storage, and security in Kubernetes
Preferred Qualifications
- Background in programming/scripting (e.g., Shell Script, Python, Golang, NodeJS, Java)
- Experience with Azure cloud services (AKS, networking, identity, etc.)
- Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux, Crossplane)
- Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio)
- Certification in Kubernetes/OpenShift (CKA, CKAD, RHCA, etc.)
Personal
- High analytical skills
- A high degree of initiative, flexibility and adaptability
- High customer orientation
- Quality awareness
- Good verbal and written communication skills