OpenShift Infrastructure Support Specialist | IT Gulf | UAE

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Job Title:

Open Shift Infrastructure Support Specialist | IT People Gulf | Dubai, UAE
🏢 Recruiting Company: IT People Gulf
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Job Location:

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
💼 Job Type: Full-Time, Onsite
📧 Application Method: sa

💡 Position Summary
The Open Shift Infrastructure Support Specialist will play a critical role in managing, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise-grade Red Hat Open Shift platforms and virtualization environments. This role ensures high availability, scalability, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud and on-premise systems.

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Job Description
As an Open Shift Infrastructure Support Specialist, you will oversee complex Open Shift clusters, perform upgrades, ensure environment resiliency, and optimize container orchestration in production-grade deployments. You will support Kube Virt/Red Hat Open Shift Virtualization, manage integrations with VMware and OLVM, and automate infrastructure tasks using modern Dev Ops tooling. The role requires deep Linux administration experience, advanced troubleshooting capabilities, and a strong understanding of storage, networking, and cloud-native architectures.

You will also troubleshoot OS patching and firmware upgrades, support virtualization infrastructure, and contribute to continuous automation improvements within a fast-paced enterprise environment.

• Administer, maintain, and optimize Red Hat Open Shift environments, ensuring high availability and cluster resiliency.
• Manage Open Shift virtualization (Kube Virt), virtual machine lifecycle, and performance.
• Perform cluster upgrades, blue‑green deployments, and zero‑downtime rollouts.
• Manage Kubernetes/Open Shift container orchestration, scheduling, and scaling.
• Support VMware, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM), and virtualization operations.
• Develop automation using Shell scripting, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, and ArgoCD.
• Troubleshoot advanced Linux issues across Red Hat, Unix, Solaris, and NIX systems.
• Implement and administer TCP/IP-based services: DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, etc.
• Manage OS patching, firmware upgrades, and root‑cause troubleshooting.
• Work with Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk for system lifecycle and patch management.
• Support storage, networking protocols, and infrastructure integration activities.

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure/IT operations roles.
• Extensive hands‑on experience with Red Hat Open Shift, including virtualization (Kube Virt).
• Strong Kubernetes/Open Shift cluster administration skills in multi‑master, HA environments.
• Strong experience managing VMware and OLVM virtualization platforms.
• Advanced scripting and automation experience (Shell, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, ArgoCD).
• 5+ years of advanced Linux administration across Red Hat, Unix, Solaris, and NIX systems.
• Expertise in Linux troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Solid understanding of storage concepts, network services, and TCP/IP protocols.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk.
• Ability to troubleshoot OS patches, firmware upgrades, and system‑level faults.

• Exposure to cloud‑native CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with container security and compliance standards.
• Experience with service mesh or advanced Open Shift add‑ons.
• Understanding of multi‑cluster Open Shift deployments and DR strategies.

💡 Recruitment Pro Tip
Showcase real‑world experience with Open Shift upgrades, cluster resiliency, and Kube Virt/virtualization workflows—practical, scenario‑based achievements significantly boost your chances in roles requiring deep Open Shift infrastructure expertise.