Platform Operations Engineer: MAS & OpenShift Expert

Verge IT; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Verge IT is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to support IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) and Red Hat OpenShift environments in enterprise hosting. The role emphasizes high availability, troubleshooting, upgrades, and platform maintenance across MAS, middleware, databases, and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes, cloud networking, automation tooling, and observability platforms, in a managed hosting or CloudOps context. Bachelor's degree preferred.

Qualifications

• Experience with SQL Server, Oracle, or DB2 databases.
• Experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, or infrastructure automation tooling.
• Experience with DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, or Infrastructure-as-Code concepts.
• Experience supporting networking within OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• Familiarity with ingress controllers, routes, reverse proxies, and container networking concepts.
• Experience working with cloud networking and security controls in AWS, Azure, or IBM Cloud.
• Experience with enterprise observability and monitoring platforms such as SolarWinds, Datadog, Dynatrace, or Grafana.
• Experience working within managed hosting, MSP, or CloudOps environments.
• ITIL, cloud, Kubernetes, or security certifications preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support MAS and OpenShift Platform Operations including MAS environments and OCP clusters.
• Monitor and troubleshoot pod, node, ingress, route, storage, and container-related issues.
• Assist with OpenShift upgrades, patching, certificate management, and platform maintenance.
• Coordinate with networking teams for incident resolution and connectivity validation.
• Participate in disaster recovery activities and operational validation of changes.

Job description

Verge IT is seeking a Platform Operations Engineer to support IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) and Red Hat OpenShift environments in enterprise hosting. The role emphasizes high availability, troubleshooting, upgrades, and platform maintenance across MAS, middleware, databases, and infrastructure.

The ideal candidate has experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes, cloud networking, automation tooling, and observability platforms, in a managed hosting or CloudOps context. Bachelor's degree preferred.