System Engineer Openshift

Job Description

• Contract Type Consultant

• Mission
• Design, deploy, and maintain Red Hat Open Shift platforms
• Adapt and optimize Open Shift clusters (file system management, access control, quotas, policies) on underlying Unix/Linux systems.
• Install, migrate, and operate Unix/Linux environments according to our standards and processes.
• Plan and manage system storage and related capacity (including persistence of Open Shift volumes).
• Ensure security, resilience, and compliance across environments.
• Participate in on‑call rotations.
• Adapt to heterogeneous environments (AIX/Solaris/RHEL, virtualization) and existing processes.
• Align Unix/Linux operations practices with container, Kubernetes, and Open Shift paradigms.
• Support application migrations to Open Shift with minimal impact, while meeting financial‑sector security requirements.

Main responsibilities

• Knowledge of major Unix/Linux distributions: IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Solaris.

Proven experience deploying and operating Open Shift or Kubernetes in production.

• Understanding of storage and network technologies: memory, disk arrays, NAS/SAN, networking (TCP/IP, VLAN, load balancing).
• Understanding of database concepts: maintenance, recovery, failover, high availability.
• Understanding of routine maintenance, recovery, and handling failover of a Database

Familiarity with at least one enterprise backup solution (e.g., Net Backup, Commvault, Veeam).

• Install, configure, and maintain Red Hat Open Shift clusters (IPI/UPI, bare metal/virtualized/cloud).
• Mastery of Kubernetes/Open Shift concepts: projects, routes, services, deployments, statefulsets, operators, CRD, RBAC, SCC, Network Policy.
• Open Shift lifecycle management: controlled upgrades, patches, channels, image mirroring, oc CLI.
• Security and compliance:
• Configuration of RBAC, SCC, PSa/PSP equivalents, secrets, encryption.
• OIDC/SAML integration with IdPs (e.g., Keycloak, Azure AD).
• Policies and admission control (Gatekeeper/OPA), auditing, hardening.
• Open Shift networking:
• Storage and persistence:
• Observability:
• Logging and metrics (Cluster Logging, Loki/EFK, Prometheus/Grafana), alerting, SIEM integration.
• CI/CD and images:
• Build Configs/Image Streams, registry management (Quay/Artifactory), image policies.
• Operations and SRE:
• Cluster and application backup/restore (Velero, etcd backup).
• Capacity planning, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler), performance tuning.

• Install and configure Open Shift components and RHEL and Unix OSes to host workloads.
• Deploy, maintain, and upgrade Open Shift clusters and their operators.
• Apply and test OS and platform patches; manage compliance and hardening.
• Develop and implement security and management procedures (OS and Open Shift).
• Update standard policies based on environmental changes and audit findings.
• Improve system and cluster performance; propose optimization initiatives.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve system and platform incidents (L2/L3).
• Plan, coordinate, and execute installation, testing, and maintenance of system software and Open Shift components.
• Lead projects within approved timelines, including migrations to Open Shift and workload rationalization.
• Analyze software and hardware environments to detect defects and risks; propose remediations.
• Implement backup and recovery strategies (OS, etcd, applications) and validate their effectiveness.
• Implement and test disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BCP) procedures for OS and Open Shift.

Perform performance maintenance routines to ensure continuous availability.

• Years of experience: 3–7.
• Required experience:
• Minimum 3 years as Unix/Linux systems administrator.
• Proven experience deploying and operating Open Shift or Kubernetes in production.
• Required knowledge:
• OS: RHEL, Open Shift.
• Others
  • Swiss Residence

Core Competencies :
Adherence to the company’s values:
Dedication, Conviction, Agility and Responsibility - Compliance with regulations and internal directives