Cloud Platform Engineer – OpenShift
Axelon Services Corporation
San Jose, CA
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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Ansible, Automation, Capacity and Performance Management, Cloud Computing, Computer Security, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Cross-Functional, DevOps, Engineering, Enterprise Protection, Hardware Virtualization, High Availability, Hypervisors, Identify Issues, Incident Management, Kernel Programming, Linux Administration, Linux Operating System, Maintain Compliance, Metrics, Network Configuration Management, Network Operations Center, Operating Systems, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Project/Program Management, Red Hat Linux Operating System, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, Software Engineering, Software Patches, Systems Administration/Management, Systems Engineering, Team Player, VMWare, Virtualization
LOCATION
San Jose, CA
POSTED
5 days ago
Pay: $67 per hour
Work Mode: Hybrid
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Job Summary:
Seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer with strong Red Hat OpenShift and Linux systems engineering expertise. This role focuses on designing, deploying, and operating enterprise-scale OpenShift platforms in on-prem datacenter environments, working closely with SRE teams and program management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters in on-prem datacenter environments.
- Architect highly available, scalable, and secure OpenShift platforms.
- Implement cluster lifecycle management (installation, upgrades, patching, scaling).
- Configure networking, storage, ingress, and security components for OpenShift.
- Build and automate infrastructure in datacenter environments (compute, storage, networking).
- Integrate OpenShift with virtualization platforms (VMware/other hypervisors as applicable).
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines for platform deployments and updates.
- Provide deep Linux system administration and troubleshooting support.
- Optimize OS-level configurations for performance, reliability, and security.
- Automate system configuration and compliance management.
- Diagnose and resolve complex kernel, networking, and storage issues.
- Partner closely with the SRE team to establish SLOs, SLIs, monitoring, and alerting.
- Drive observability implementation (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Participate in incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), and remediation.
- Ensure platform resiliency, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
- Work with Program Management to drive large-scale OpenShift implementation milestones.
- Provide technical input into roadmap planning, timelines, and risk mitigation.
- Collaborate with security, networking, storage, and application teams.
- Document architecture, standards, and operational procedures.
- Implement RBAC, security policies, and compliance controls within OpenShift.
- Harden clusters according to enterprise security standards.
- Support vulnerability management and patch governance processes.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Linux systems engineering experience.
- 3+ years hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x preferred).
- Experience with on-prem infrastructure and datacenter environments.
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, networking, storage, and virtualization.
- Experience with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps).
Preferred Qualifications:
- Red Hat certifications (RHCE, OpenShift).
- Experience with enterprise-scale OpenShift deployments.
- Familiarity with SRE practices, DevOps/GitOps, and monitoring tools.
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