# OpenShift Platform Engineer - DevOps

**Company:** [GSSTech Group](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/cu9XaZB8i9r9X8CdwN62f7.md)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Workplace:** on site

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## Description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift Administration, DevOps automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native technologies.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience managing large-scale OpenShift environments, automating infrastructure deployments, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing GitOps-driven delivery models, and supporting cloud migration initiatives.

This role requires a strong engineering mindset with expertise across Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, automation, platform engineering, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, standardizing, and automating technology platforms while ensuring scalability, security, availability, and operational excellence.

## Requirements

### Key Responsibilities

• Design, install, configure, manage, and automate large-scale OpenShift clusters.

• Develop and implement automation solutions for platform provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.

• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Ansible, and automation frameworks.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and support modern DevOps delivery practices.

• Implement GitOps-driven configuration management and application deployment approaches.

• Support application migration initiatives from traditional environments to cloud and container platforms.

• Design standardized technology stacks and reusable platform components.

• Develop automation solutions to enable zero-touch and unattended deployments.

• Perform platform capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability improvements.

• Collaborate with architects, application teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams to deliver enterprise platform solutions.

• Participate in technical design discussions and provide recommendations on platform architecture.

• Troubleshoot complex platform issues related to OpenShift, Kubernetes, networking, security, and integrations.

• Support production stability by improving automation, reliability, monitoring, and operational processes.

• Contribute to engineering best practices, open-source adoption, and continuous platform improvements.

### Required Technical Skills

### OpenShift / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift Administration.

• Experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and managing enterprise-scale OpenShift clusters.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts and container technologies.

• Understanding of OpenShift virtualization (KubeVirt).

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator certification is preferred.

### DevOps & Automation

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Terraform  
• Jenkins  
• Ansible

Experience with:

• Configuration management  
• Infrastructure automation  
• Orchestration tools  
• CI/CD pipeline implementation

### GitOps & Deployment

• Strong understanding of GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment practices.

• Experience with:

-   ArgoCD
-   Helm Charts
-   Automated deployment workflows

### Programming & Scripting

Strong scripting experience with:

• Bash  
• PowerShell  
• Python  
• Groovy (Jenkins pipeline scripting)

### Cloud & Infrastructure

• Hands-on experience migrating applications to cloud environments.

• Understanding of cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, private connectivity, and hybrid cloud architectures.

• Strong conceptual understanding of infrastructure components and enterprise data center environments.

### Networking & Security Knowledge

Experience with:

• REST/SOAP API communication concepts.

• DNS:

-   Authoritative DNS
-   Non-authoritative DNS
-   Dynamic DNS
-   Bind DNS
-   DNS Forwarders

• SSL/TLS communication:

-   SSL handshake
-   Cipher suites
-   Encryption algorithms

• Certificates:

-   SAN certificates
-   Client authentication certificates
-   Keystores
-   Mutual SSL

• Load balancers  
• Site selectors  
• Firewalls

### Security & Identity Management

Experience with:

• Active Directory:

-   Security OUs
-   Policies

• Vault technologies:

-   CyberArk
-   HashiCorp Vault

• High Availability architecture and implementation.

### Repository & Monitoring Tools

Experience with:

• Artifact management tools:

-   Red Hat Satellite
-   Spacewalk
-   Nexus

• ELK Stack and Beats:

-   Audit Beat
-   File Beat

• OS compliance standards:

-   CIS Benchmarks

### Required Experience

• 8+ years of experience in technology engineering / platform engineering roles.

• Strong experience working in large enterprise environments.

• Proven experience managing enterprise OpenShift/Kubernetes platforms.

• Experience implementing automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code solutions.

• Experience working with Agile delivery methodologies.

### Preferred Experience

• Experience in enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.

• Experience working with financial services or large-scale regulated environments.

• Exposure to SRE principles and DevOps operating models.

• Experience contributing to open-source technologies.

### Key Competencies

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Strategic thinking with a research and development mindset.

• Strong ownership of technical delivery and platform improvements.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, and application teams.

• Understanding of project delivery methodologies and Agile practices.