OpenShift Engineer

Delan Associates, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Delan Associates, Inc. is seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to manage enterprise OpenShift 4.x environments and related automation. The role focuses on onboarding applications, upgrades, and storage automation within a containerized ecosystem.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on OpenShift, ArgoCD, and Portworx experience, plus strong skills in deployment automation and operator maintenance for enterprise-scale deployments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on OpenShift 4.x administration in enterprise settings.
• Experience with ArgoCD and Portworx in production.
• Experience with deployment automation and storage management.
• OpenShift upgrades and large-scale onboarding

Responsibilities

• Onboarding new applications to the OpenShift platform
• Performing platform upgrades and patching activities
• Managing and patching OpenShift operators
• Supporting storage and deployment automation technologies
• Participating in project and operational meetings
• Providing platform support during scheduled maintenance windows when necessary

Skills

OpenShift administration

ArgoCD

Portworx storage

On-prem experience

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift 4.x

Job description

Top Skills - Must Haves

Redhat Openshift 4.x ArgoCD GitOps Portworx (MUST)

Top Skills' Details

• Red Hat OpenShift 4.x administration and engineering
• ArgoCD for GitOps-based deployments and application lifecycle management
• Portworx storage administration and support
• Really wants someone with portworx and On-prem experience so they can hit the ground running

The ideal candidate will have strong experience administering and supporting Red Hat OpenShift 4.x environments in an enterprise setting. Candidates should be comfortable working within a containerized platform ecosystem and have hands-on experience with both deployment automation and storage management solutions.

Responsibilities

• Onboarding new applications to the OpenShift platform
• Performing platform upgrades and patching activities
• Managing and patching OpenShift operators
• Supporting storage and deployment automation technologies
• Participating in project and operational meetings
• Providing platform support during scheduled maintenance windows when necessary

Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)

Resume Must-Haves

• Recent hands-on OpenShift 4.x experience
• Direct experience with ArgoCD and Portworx
• Enterprise Kubernetes/container platform support experience
• Examples of OpenShift upgrades, migrations, or large-scale application onboarding efforts
• Relevant Red Hat certifications and cloud/platform engineering experience

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with OpenShift upgrades, patching, and operator maintenance
• Strong troubleshooting and operational support experience within Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
• Experience onboarding and supporting enterprise applications
• Ability to support occasional after-hours maintenance activities, including planned upgrades and patching events

Target candidates who have recently supported enterprise OpenShift environments and can demonstrate hands-on expertise with platform operations, automation, storage management, and application onboarding. Candidates coming from Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Engineering, or Kubernetes Administration backgrounds will likely be strong fits.

Originally posted on Himalayas