Senior OpenShift Engineer

Job Location Abu Dhabi (Work From Office)

Job Type Contract

At least 10 years of IT experience, preferably within the banking sector, with broad exposure to enterprise technology platforms.

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Open Shift Administration

• Design, architect, and operate enterprise-scale Red Hat Open Shift (v4.x) platforms across on-prem, private cloud, and managed Open Shift services (ARO, ROSA) for regulated banking workloads.
• Define hybrid and multi-cloud Open Shift architecture, integrating on-prem Open Shift with cloud-hosted clusters while maintaining security, compliance, and operational consistency.
• Architect Open Shift solutions leveraging Azure Red Hat Open Shift (ARO) and Red Hat Open Shift Service on AWS (ROSA), including network connectivity, identity integration, and landing zone alignment.
• Build, configure, and maintain Open Shift cluster infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Open Shift platforms: installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform health management.
• Act as a solution architect and technical advisor for container platforms, guiding application modernization and cloud-native adoption strategies.
• Design hybrid connectivity models between on-prem and cloud Open Shift clusters using VPN, private connectivity (e.g., Express Route / Direct Connect-aligned designs), and secure ingress/egress patterns.
• Develop technical architectures, solution blueprints, and design documents for Open Shift-based platforms and cloud-integrated solutions.
• Prepare and deliver technical proposals, architecture presentations, and platform roadmaps to architecture review boards, leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Implement and manage Open Shift ecosystem components, including Operators, Operator Hub, Open Shift Pipelines (Tekton), Git Ops (Argo CD), and Service Mesh (Istio).
• Drive platform automation and standardization using Ansible, Terraform (where applicable), Bash, and Python across on-prem and cloud Open Shift environments.
• Enable and support CI/CD pipelines and Git Ops workflows for cloud and hybrid Open Shift clusters, ensuring controlled and compliant deployments.
• Integrate Open Shift with cloud-native services and enterprise tooling, including identity providers, container registries, monitoring, logging, and certificate management.
• Ensure security, risk, and compliance alignment across hybrid and cloud platforms, enforcing RBAC, network policies, cluster hardening, and banking regulatory standards.
• Integrate and manage container and cloud security tooling, including image scanning, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement (e.g., ACS, Trivy).
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance, availability, and reliability issues across on-prem and cloud Open Shift clusters, providing root cause analysis and remediation.
• Design and operate centralized observability solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK) for hybrid Open Shift environments.
• Plan and execute capacity and scaling strategies for Open Shift clusters across cloud and on-prem platforms based on business demand and SLAs.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to Open Shift and platform engineers, promoting cloud and hybrid platform best practices.
• Lead or support small platform engineering teams, including task planning, technical reviews, and skill development.
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, security, networking, SRE, and application teams to deliver secure, stable, and compliant Open Shift platforms.
• Provide 24/7 production support and incident leadership, ensuring fast recovery and minimal impact to critical banking services.
• Contribute to platform governance, standards definition, and continuous improvement of enterprise container and hybrid cloud platforms.