Sr. Consultant: OpenShift & ArgoCD

Insight Global; San Jose (CA); Vor Ort; USD 190.000 - 235.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Insight Global seeks a Senior Consultant with deep OpenShift, GitOps, and Argo CD expertise to design and optimize Kubernetes-based platforms. You will lead deployments, author runbooks, and mentor client teams while aligning with security and compliance requirements.

The role emphasizes hands-on OpenShift cluster management, Argo CD workflows, and strong collaboration with platform engineering, DevOps, and security teams. Certifications and IaC experience are valued.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in DevOps/platform engineering/Kubernetes-focused consulting.
• 3+ years with Red Hat OpenShift administration/engineering.
• Experience with OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD) and multi-cluster patterns.
• Strong knowledge of GitOps principles and Argo CD deployments.
• Kubernetes fundamentals: workloads, networking, storage, RBAC.
• IaC/automation: Ansible or Terraform.
• Scripting in Bash or Python a plus.
• Certifications such as RHCSA/RHCE/RHCA or CKA/CKAD preferred.

Aufgaben

• Design, implement, and optimize modern application delivery platforms.
• Mentor client teams and drive adoption of GitOps practices across engineering.
• Create technical documentation and runbooks for operations.
• Lead technical conversations with engineers and stakeholders.
• Ensure security/compliance with RBAC and secrets management.

Kenntnisse

OpenShift administration

GitOps

ArgoCD

Kubernetes

IaC (Ansible/Terraform)

Linux scripting (Bash/Python)

Communication leadership

Tools

OpenShift

ArgoCD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Ansible

Jobbeschreibung

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is seeking a Senior Consultant with deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift, GitOps methodologies, and Argo CD to support the design, implementation, and optimization of modern application delivery platforms. This individual will act as a technical leader and trusted advisor, working closely with platform engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to build scalable, secure, and repeatable Kubernetes-based environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience deploying and managing OpenShift clusters, implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD to enable declarative, version-controlled deployments, and establishing standardized CI/CD integrations with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Azure DevOps. This consultant will be responsible for defining best practices around multi-environment promotion strategies, repository structures, and deployment patterns using Helm, Kustomize, and Operators, while also ensuring alignment with enterprise security and compliance requirements through policies such as RBAC, secrets management, and policy-as-code frameworks. Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible or Terraform, as well as Kubernetes administration fundamentals, is required. The role also includes mentoring client teams, creating technical documentation and runbooks, and driving adoption of GitOps practices across engineering organizations.

Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or Kubernetes-focused consulting roles.
• 3+ years of hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift administration and/or engineering (install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot).
• Experience with OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Strong working knowledge of GitOps principles and design, deployment, and implementation of Argo CD (applications, app-of-apps patterns, sync waves, health checks, RBAC, Projects, multi-cluster patterns).
• Proficiency with Kubernetes fundamentals: workloads, services, ingress, storage, networking, scheduling, and cluster operations.
• Experience with IaC and automation: Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Comfort operating in Linux environments; scripting in Bash/Python a plus.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical conversations with both engineering teams and stakeholders.
• Experience with OpenShift ecosystem components such as:
  • OpenShift Hosted Control Planes (HCP)
  • OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)
  • Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)
  • Service Mesh (Istio), OpenShift Virtualization, Quay, etc.

Certifications: Red Hat (RHCSA/RHCE/RHCA), CKA/CKAD, or equivalent.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].