Open Shift Platform Engineer

Motive; United States; Remote; USD 61,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Motive is seeking an OpenShift Platform Engineer to architect and deploy OpenShift clusters across on-prem, VMWare, and cloud environments from production readiness to scale. You will partner with networking, OS, database, and application teams to ensure workloads run efficiently and securely in a hybrid setup.

You will own patching, upgrades, backups, DR planning, and cluster hardening, while automating provisioning with CI/CD and IaC.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure engineering or platform ops experience.
• 3+ years hands-on OpenShift (OCP) in production.
• Strong Kubernetes and OpenShift ecosystem knowledge.
• Deep expertise across VMWare, bare metal, and public clouds (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with hybrid workload migrations and cost/resource trade-offs.
• Proven backup/restore, disaster recovery, and high availability know-how.
• Security hardening with RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and auditing.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy OpenShift clusters across on-prem, VMWare, and public cloud.
• Serve as OCP SME, driving best practices and standards.
• Collaborate with networking, OS, DB, and apps teams to support workloads.
• Lead patching, upgrades, backups, and DR strategies.
• Enable workload migrations between on-prem and cloud for performance and cost.
• Improve infrastructure security and hardening in compliant environments.
• Automate provisioning and maintenance via CI/CD and IaC.
• Maintain observability with logging, metrics, and alerts.

Skills

Infra engineering

OpenShift platform

Kubernetes

Hybrid cloud

Backup & DR

Security hardening

CI/CD & IaC

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Open Shift Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and deploy OpenShift (OCP) clusters in production environments across bare metal, VMWare, and public cloud platforms.
• Serve as the primary OCP subject matter expert, driving best practices and standards across the organization.
• Work closely with internal teams (networking, OS, DB, applications) to integrate services and support workloads.
• Lead cluster lifecycle operations, including patching, upgrades, and backup/restore strategies for high availability and disaster recovery.
• Enable workload migration between on-prem and cloud environments (e.g., hybrid deployments) for optimization of performance, cost, and capacity.
• Drive infrastructure security and hardening, aligning with best practices in regulated and large-scale environments.
• Automate cluster provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Maintain cluster observability and performance using logging, metrics, and alerting tools.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or platform operations.
• 3+ years of hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering in production environments.
• Proficient in container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and OpenShift ecosystem tools.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMWare, bare metal, and public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with hybrid workload migrations and managing cost/resource trade-offs across environments.
• Proven expertise in backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations.
• Experience hardening and securing environments with RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails.
• Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps.

Nice-to-Have:

• OpenShift certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration).
• Experience in managed services or telco/broadband environments.
• Familiarity with database and storage integration in containerized workloads.
• Exposure to compliance and security standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Remote: Ontario, Canada

85K- 95K

MOTIVE gives equal opportunity in employment regardless of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, race, nationality, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, or any other factor. MOTIVE will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement, do not submit resumes/CV's directly.