OpenShift Engineer

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Location:

Riyadh, KSA (Onsite)

The Open Shift Engineer is responsible for the design, deployment, administration, configuration, maintenance, automation, and lifecycle management of Red Hat Open Shift environments. The role involves ensuring platform availability, scalability, performance, and security while collaborating closely with internal teams, vendors, and application owners to support enterprise containerized workloads and infrastructure operations.

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain Open Shift environments across bare-metal and virtualized platforms in alignment with business and technical requirements.
• Administer and support Kubernetes and Open Shift clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational stability.
• Perform cluster lifecycle management activities including installation, upgrades, patching, scaling, backup, recovery, and decommissioning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform, container, infrastructure, and application-related issues within Open Shift environments.
• Automate platform provisioning, deployment, and operational tasks using Ansible, Git Ops, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate Open Shift platforms with enterprise networking components including Load Balancers, DNS, Ingress Controllers, Firewalls, and MetalLB.
• Configure and manage storage integrations including SAN, NFS, Ceph, and Open Shift Data Foundation (ODF).
• Implement and maintain platform security and compliance controls including RBAC, IAM, image security, vulnerability management, and secrets management.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance using enterprise monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK Stack.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams to support onboarding, deployment, and operational activities.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, operational procedures, technical standards, and runbooks.
• Provide technical guidance and operational support to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise IT standards, operational policies, and best practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Minimum 3+ years of hands‑on experience in administering and supporting Red Hat Open Shift environments.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts including Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, Operators, and Name spaces.
• Strong experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Good knowledge of container technologies and container orchestration platforms.
• Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Ansible, Shell Scripting, or Python.
• Experience with Git Ops, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls, and Ingress Controllers.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NFS, Ceph, and ODF.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK Stack.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication, coordination, and technical documentation skills.