Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer

Stefanini EMEA; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini Group is seeking a Senior Compute Engineer specialised in Red Hat OpenShift to strengthen our Compute Operations team and provide Level 3 expert support for enterprise workloads on container and virtualization platforms.

This role focuses on day-to-day operations, stability, upgrades, patching, and platform modernization, including VMware-to-OpenShift transformations, with strong troubleshooting and automation expectations.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on OpenShift administration and operations.
• Solid Linux background (RHEL), with troubleshooting, networking and storage.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals (pods, deployments, RBAC, etcd).
• Experience in production environments with uptime and SLA commitments.

Responsibilities

• Act as the L3 escalation point for complex issues in OpenShift clusters.
• Own major incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Plan and execute OpenShift lifecycle activities (upgrades, patches).
• Support VMware-to-OpenShift virtualization transformation projects.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOPs, and automation to improve stability.

Skills

OpenShift

Linux

Kubernetes

SRE

Scripting

Tools

Ansible

GitOps (ArgoCD)

Python

Bash

Job description

Stefanini Group is seeking a Senior Compute Engineer specialised in Red Hat OpenShift to strengthen our Compute Operations team and provide Level 3 expert support for enterprise workloads on container and virtualization platforms.

This role focuses on day-to-day operations, stability, upgrades, patching, and platform modernization, including VMware-to-OpenShift transformations, with strong troubleshooting and automation expectations.