OpenShift Platform Engineer - Multiple Teams

Job Summary

Synechron is seeking a OpenShift Platform Engineer / OpenShift Administrator with strong expertise in OpenShift administration, cloud migration, automation, and infrastructure management.

The role will involve installing, configuring, automating, securing, and managing large-scale OpenShift clusters and containerized workloads. The successful candidate will implement Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices while supporting enterprise cloud migration and platform operations.

This position will contribute to business objectives by improving platform stability, deployment efficiency, scalability, availability, security, disaster recovery readiness, and operational consistency across enterprise environments.

Software Requirements

Required Software Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift: Strong hands-on experience administering, configuring, troubleshooting, securing, and optimizing large-scale OpenShift clusters.
• Kubernetes/OpenShift: Strong understanding of container platform operations, cluster architecture, workloads, networking, storage, and platform lifecycle management.
• Terraform: Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code for infrastructure provisioning and platform configuration.
• Ansible: Experience automating infrastructure management, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks.
• Jenkins: Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• GitOps tools and practices: Experience implementing Git-based configuration management and deployment processes.
• KubeVirt: Understanding and experience managing OpenShift Virtualization workloads.
• Cloud migration technologies: Experience supporting application and infrastructure migration to cloud platforms.
• DNS technologies: Strong knowledge of authoritative and non-authoritative DNS, Dynamic DNS, BIND DNS, and DNS forwarders.
• SSL/TLS technologies: Understanding of SSL handshakes, cipher suites, encryption algorithms, certificates, and secure communications.
• Active Directory: Experience with Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies.
• Certificate management: Experience with SAN certificates, client authentication, keystores, and mutual SSL (mTLS).
• Vault solutions: Hands-on experience with CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault solutions.
• API technologies: Good understanding of REST and SOAP APIs, including developing API consumers and publishers.
• Infrastructure components: Experience managing load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors.

Preferred Software Skills

• Enterprise-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
• Cloud-native infrastructure and application migration tools.
• Platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
• Disaster recovery, backup, and resilience tooling.
• Additional automation and configuration-management tools relevant to enterprise platform operations.

Version and Experience Guidance

• Specific product versions are not prescribed in the requirements.
• Candidates should have experience with current, production-supported versions of OpenShift, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and related tools.
• Candidates should be able to assess compatibility, plan upgrades, apply version controls, and support platform lifecycle management.
• Experience should include hands-on administration and operational support in enterprise environments.

Overall Responsibilities

• Install, configure, automate, administer, and maintain large-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Lead and support application migrations to cloud platforms.
• Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment processes.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize OpenShift platform performance, availability, capacity, and security.
• Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift Virtualization using KubeVirt.
• Work with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to maintain platform stability and scalability.
• Design and implement high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies for critical services.
• Support enterprise platform architecture, infrastructure integration, and operational readiness.
• Manage and troubleshoot DNS services, SSL/TLS communications, certificates, Active Directory integrations, load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors.
• Implement and maintain secure secrets and credentials management using Vault solutions such as CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automation playbooks, infrastructure modules, and GitOps workflows.
• Define and maintain platform standards, operating procedures, technical documentation, and recovery processes.
• Identify and resolve platform risks related to performance, availability, security, scalability, and operational continuity.
• Improve resource utilization and platform sustainability through automation, capacity planning, workload optimization, and efficient infrastructure practices.

Technical Skills (By Category)

Programming Languages

Essential

• Scripting and automation experience using languages supported by Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, and enterprise platform tooling.
• Ability to develop automation scripts, configuration logic, API integrations, and operational utilities.
• Ability to work with structured configuration formats used in infrastructure and deployment automation.

Preferred

• Experience with Python or other scripting languages used for infrastructure automation.
• Experience developing reusable automation modules, scripts, and platform integrations.
• Familiarity with scripting for monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational reporting.

Databases/Data Management

Essential

• Understanding of data persistence and storage requirements for containerized workloads.
• Understanding of configuration, secrets, certificates, logs, and platform metadata management.
• Ability to apply appropriate access, retention, backup, and recovery controls to infrastructure-related data.

Preferred

• Experience supporting persistent workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with storage classes, persistent volumes, backup strategies, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Exposure to platform monitoring data, centralized logging, and operational metrics.

Cloud Technologies

Essential

• Experience with cloud migration and container platform operations.
• Strong understanding of OpenShift and Kubernetes platform architecture.
• Experience managing large-scale containerized workloads.
• Understanding of high availability, resilient infrastructure design, scalability, and disaster recovery.
• Experience supporting cloud-based platform deployment, configuration, and operations.

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Familiarity with cloud-native networking, storage, identity, security, and resource management.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure sustainability.
• Experience supporting hybrid or multi-environment platform operations.

Frameworks and Libraries

Essential

• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline implementation.
• GitOps practices for configuration management and deployment.
• OpenShift and Kubernetes administration frameworks and platform tools.
• KubeVirt for OpenShift Virtualization workloads.
• REST and SOAP API integration technologies.
• DNS technologies, including BIND DNS, Dynamic DNS, DNS forwarders, authoritative DNS, and non-authoritative DNS.
• SSL/TLS technologies, including SSL handshakes, cipher suites, encryption algorithms, certificates, keystores, and mTLS.
• Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies.
• Vault solutions, including CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.
• Load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors.

Preferred

• Additional OpenShift and Kubernetes ecosystem tools.
• Platform monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting frameworks.
• Automation frameworks that support infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Tools for backup, disaster recovery, configuration compliance, and platform security assessment.

Development Tools and Methodologies

Essential

• Experience across platform engineering and infrastructure operations lifecycles, including planning, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and support.
• Experience designing reusable Terraform modules and Ansible playbooks.
• Experience creating and maintaining Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience implementing GitOps-driven deployment and configuration management.
• Familiarity with version control and collaborative engineering practices.
• Ability to create technical designs, operating procedures, implementation plans, troubleshooting guides, and recovery documentation.
• Experience supporting change management, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Preferred

• Experience with infrastructure testing and automated validation.
• Familiarity with policy-as-code and configuration compliance.
• Experience with agile delivery methods and iterative platform improvement.
• Experience implementing platform observability, service-level monitoring, and operational dashboards.

Security Protocols

Essential

• Strong understanding of SSL/TLS communications, including SSL handshakes, cipher suites, and encryption algorithms.
• Experience managing SAN certificates, client authentication, keystores, and mutual SSL (mTLS).
• Experience with Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies.
• Hands-on experience with CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault solutions.
• Understanding of identity, access control, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and secure platform administration.
• Experience managing firewalls, load balancers, site selectors, and secure network communications.
• Ability to apply security controls to OpenShift clusters, containerized workloads, automation pipelines, and infrastructure components.

Preferred

• Experience implementing security baselines and compliance controls for OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with vulnerability management, security monitoring, audit evidence, and configuration reviews.
• Experience integrating security checks into CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Experience designing security controls for highly available and disaster-recovery environments.

Experience Requirements

• Overall experience: 8+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, systems administration, cloud engineering, or a related technical field.
• OpenShift experience: Strong hands-on experience administering, configuring, automating, monitoring, and troubleshooting OpenShift clusters.
• Automation experience: Demonstrated experience with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud experience: Experience supporting cloud migration and container platform operations.
• Infrastructure experience: Strong understanding of infrastructure concepts, enterprise platform architecture, high availability, disaster recovery, and resilient infrastructure design.
• Security and networking experience: Experience with DNS, SSL/TLS, Active Directory, certificates, Vault solutions, load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors.
• Virtualization experience: Understanding of OpenShift Virtualization using KubeVirt.
• Industry preference: Experience supporting enterprise-scale, regulated, operationally critical, or highly available technology environments is preferred.
• Alternative experience pathways: Equivalent combinations of relevant professional experience, technical training, substantial platform implementations, open-source contributions, or demonstrated production operations may be considered.
• Outcome evidence: Candidates should demonstrate measurable contributions to platform availability, deployment automation, migration success, operational efficiency, security improvement, incident reduction, or infrastructure scalability.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize OpenShift clusters, containerized workloads, KubeVirt environments, networking, storage, and platform services.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, security, cloud, and operations teams through planning sessions, technical reviews, incident discussions, and delivery meetings.
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules, Ansible playbooks, Jenkins pipelines, GitOps configurations, migration plans, technical documentation, and operational procedures.
• Make platform decisions within the assigned scope and escalate risks related to availability, security, performance, capacity, disaster recovery, and service continuity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; equivalent relevant experience or demonstrated technical capability may be considered.
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure management, systems administration, or a related technical role.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with OpenShift Administration, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitOps, cloud migration, Kubernetes/OpenShift, DNS, SSL/TLS, Active Directory, Vault, and high availability.
• Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications are highly desirable; equivalent demonstrated production expertise may also be considered.
• Commitment to continuous professional development through relevant training, technical certifications, knowledge sharing, and ongoing learning in OpenShift, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, automation, security, and platform engineering.

Professional Competencies

• Applies structured problem-solving to diagnose complex platform, infrastructure, networking, security, automation, and availability issues.
• Provides technical leadership through sound platform decisions, knowledge sharing, design reviews, and collaborative delivery.
• Communicates clearly with development, infrastructure, security, operations, and business stakeholders regarding risks, dependencies, incidents, and technical solutions.
• Adapts to evolving cloud platforms, OpenShift capabilities, automation tools, security requirements, migration priorities, and operational conditions.
• Identifies practical improvements in platform automation, reliability, security, scalability, observability, resource utilization, and sustainability.
• Manages priorities effectively across platform operations, project delivery, incident response, maintenance, upgrades, and continuous improvement activities.

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
 

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

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