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About the role
- OpenShift platform engineer deploying, automating, and securing production clusters for MOTIVE. Managing hybrid infrastructure, lifecycle operations, disaster recovery, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Architect and deploy OpenShift (OCP) clusters in production environments across bare metal, VMWare, and public cloud platforms
- Serve as the primary OCP subject matter expert, driving best practices and standards across the organization
- Work closely with networking, OS, DB, and application teams to integrate services and support workloads
- Lead cluster lifecycle operations, including patching, upgrades, and backup/restore strategies for high availability and disaster recovery
- Enable workload migration between on-premises and cloud environments for performance, cost, and capacity optimization
- Drive infrastructure security and hardening in regulated and large-scale environments
- Automate cluster provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles
- Maintain cluster observability and performance using logging, metrics, and alerting tools
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or platform operations
- 3+ years of hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering in production environments
- Proficient in container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and OpenShift ecosystem tools
- Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMWare, bare metal, and public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with hybrid workload migrations and managing cost/resource trade-offs across environments
- Proven expertise in backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations
- Experience hardening and securing environments with RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps
- OpenShift certifications are a nice-to-have, not required
- Experience in managed services or telco/broadband environments is a nice-to-have
- Familiarity with database and storage integration in containerized workloads is a nice-to-have
- Exposure to compliance and security standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 is a nice-to-have
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