Openshift and Ansible Admin

Location : Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Bangalore

The RedHat OpenShift Platform Administrator would need to have at least 5-9 years of experience. In this role, you will primarily focus on administering and supporting the OpenShift Container Platform ecosystem for the organization in both public cloud and on premises. This includes managing container tenant provisioning, isolation, and capacity.

With expertise in Ansible Automation Platform to manage and optimize our OpenShift clusters while developing and implementing effective Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for Red Hat OpenShift. The candidate will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our container orchestration environments.

Additionally, understanding application development lifecycles as well practical experience in working with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools as part of the container lifecycle will be useful.

Principle Responsibilities :

OpenShift Administration :

Manage, monitor, and optimize Red Hat OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability and performance.

Experience in Installing OpenShift cluster using UPI / IPI method.

Manage the container platform ecosystem (installation, upgrade, patching, monitoring)

Implement best practices for cluster security, networking configurations, and resource management.

Experience in managing OpenShift storage, Networking & Knowledge in troubleshooting the deployment / pod issues.

Cluster capacity management and provisioning through automation of underlying hosts

Provides L2 / L3 engineering support & mentor team members.

Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery / Deployment & Management using technologies like Jenkins, Git, Ansible or comparable tools.

Conduct regular backups and perform system upgrades while minimizing downtime.

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to OpenShift, ensuring minimal service interruption.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize the container deployment lifecycle.

Ansible Automation :

Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles to automate deployment, configuration, and management of applications on OpenShift.

Integrate Ansible Automation Platform with existing CI / CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency.

Provide support and guidance to engineering teams on the use of Ansible for automating tasks in the OpenShift environment.

Disaster Recovery Solutions :

Design and implement comprehensive Disaster Recovery strategies for OpenShift clusters.

Conduct risk assessments to identify potential impact scenarios and develop recovery plans.

Test and validate DR solutions through regular simulations and drills to ensure effectiveness.

Document DR processes and maintain thorough records of recovery strategies and procedures.

Collaboration and Support :

Work closely with cross-functional teams including DevOps, Security, and IT Support to foster a culture of collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Provide training and support to team members on OpenShift administration and Ansible Automation practices.

Stay current with emerging trends and technologies related to OpenShift, Ansible, and disaster recovery solutions.

Having good knowledge of ITSM Process - Change Management, Problem Management, Root Couse analysis, Stack Holder Communication.

Experience (Mandatory) :

RedHat Linux administration.

Expertise with the RedHat OpenShift Container Platform & Kubernetes Administration.

Expertise in understanding of OpenShift platform and troubleshooting

Expertise in understanding of Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform

Proficiency in :

Container technologies (Docker, Podman, CRI-O)

Kubernetes orchestration (OpenShift)

Version Control (GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket)

CI / CD Pipeline (Tekton, ArgoCD, Jenkins)

Ansible Automation Platform or Ansible

Experience in Infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, logging, alerting and Ops