Platform Engineer (Openshift/Kubernetes Specialist)

3-5 Years

SGD 5,500 - 9,500 per month

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Job Description

Cluster Lifecycle Engineering: Design and automate the full lifecycle of Red Hat OpenShift clusters across multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), ensuring they are treated as immutable infrastructure.
Automation Development: Build robust, reusable automation for cluster provisioning, version upgrades, and auto-scaling using Ansible, Terraform, and Python.
Advanced Component Management: Implement and fine-tune critical OpenShift components, specifically OVN-Kubernetes for networking and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)/Ceph for software-defined storage.
GitOps & Orchestration: Establish and maintain GitOps workflows (e.g., using ArgoCD or Flux) to ensure the Source of Truth for all cluster configurations remains in Git.
Reliability & Performance: Conduct deep-dive performance tuning and engineer high-availability (HA) solutions to ensure the container platform meets strict government Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
Security & Compliance: Implement Policy as Code to ensure all clusters automatically adhere to IM8 security standards and CIS benchmarks.

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
Experience: Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
Technical Expertise:
- Strong mastery of Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x) and Kubernetes internals (API, etcd, Scheduler).
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform and Ansible.
- Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash for building custom automation tools.
- Knowledge of container networking (SDN, OVN) and storage orchestration (CSI, Ceph/ODF).