[Remote] OpenShift Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AgreeYa Solutions is a global Systems Integrator seeking an experienced OpenShift Platform Engineer to join their OpenShift platform team on a contract basis. The role involves operational management and support of the enterprise OpenShift platform in a regulated financial services environment, focusing on enhancing platform reliability and user experience.
Responsibilities
- Manage and support Red Hat OpenShift clusters hosted on x86 infrastructure
- Provide day-to-day operational support for the OpenShift platform, ensuring high availability and performance and BAU maintenance
- Implement and enhance automation across platform operations (provisioning, scaling, patching, incident response)
- Maintain and improve platform reliability, observability, and resilience using SRE principles
- Contribute to incident, problem, and change management processes in line with regulated environment standards
- Partner with application teams to support onboarding, troubleshooting, and platform usage
- Diagnose and resolve complex platform and application issues across the stack (compute, storage, networking, containers)
- Work closely with infrastructure teams supporting VMware virtualised environments
- Ensure compliance with security, audit, and regulatory requirements
- Produce and maintain clear technical documentation and operational runbooks
Skills
- Proven experience managing OpenShift on x86-based infrastructure & container technologies
- Strong focus on incident management, root cause analysis, and recovery
- Experience working with VMware vSphere / virtualised infrastructure environments
- Strong troubleshooting skills across: Networking, Storage, Container orchestration, Platform performance
- Demonstrable experience in production operations & support environments
- Experience supporting internal application teams consuming platform services
- Ability to work under pressure in critical service environments
- Experience with automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, scripting)
- Competence in at least one scripting/programming language (e.g., Python, Bash, Go)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling
- Proven experience working within financial services or similarly regulated environments
- Strong understanding of: Governance, risk, and compliance requirements, Change control and audit practices, Secure platform operations
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams (platform, infrastructure, applications)
- Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
- Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
- Hands-on, 'get things done' operator
- Strong ownership and accountability
- Customer-focused, supporting internal platform users (application teams)
- SRE mindset – focused on improving reliability, reducing toil, and automating repetitive tasks
- Exposure to SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, observability)
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools
- Familiarity with hybrid or multi-cloud environments
- Knowledge of security best practices in container platforms
- Red Hat certifications (e.g., RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift certification) are advantageous
Benefits
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
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