Red Hat OpenShift Platform Administrator

About the role

The Red Hat OpenShift Platform Administrator is responsible for deploying, operating, and continuously improving OpenShift environments, including Container Platform, Hosted Control Plane, and Virtualization. The role ensures secure, reliable, and high‑performance operation of containerized applications and virtual workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Deploy, administer, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Hosted Control Plane (HCP) clusters.
• Perform lifecycle management: upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and maintenance.
• Manage OpenShift Virtualization workloads and associated storage integrations.
• Automate operations using CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Implement security controls, access management, and compliance measures.
• Monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, and conduct root‑cause analysis.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 2 years of hands‑on experience with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Proven experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton) and GitOps solutions (Argo CD).

Required skills

• Red Hat OpenShift (OCP, HCP, Virtualization/KubeVirt).
• Kubernetes architecture and resource management.
• Linux system administration.
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Tekton).
• GitOps (Argo CD).
• Automation and IaC practices.
• Storage integration (ODF, Portworx, NFS, SAN).
• Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager).
• Networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancers, VLANs, Ingress, Routes).