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Senior OpenShift Engineer

DICETEK LLC
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Contract
Senior
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Red Hat OpenShift v4.x administrationHybrid and multi-cloud architectureAzure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO)Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)AnsibleTerraform

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Minimum experience and qualification

  • At least 10 years of IT experience; banking-sector experience is preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent.

Professional qualifications

  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
  • ITIL Foundation in IT Service Management.

Technical competencies

  • Design, architect, and operate enterprise-scale OpenShift v4.x platforms across on-premises, private-cloud, ARO, and ROSA environments.
  • Define hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, connectivity, identity integration, and cloud landing-zone alignment.
  • Build and maintain cluster infrastructure, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration.
  • Own platform installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and health management.
  • Develop architectures, blueprints, design documents, proposals, presentations, and platform roadmaps.
  • Manage Operators, OperatorHub, Tekton, Argo CD/GitOps, and Istio Service Mesh.
  • Automate and standardize with Ansible, Terraform where applicable, Bash, and Python; enable CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
  • Integrate identity providers, registries, monitoring, logging, and certificate management.
  • Enforce RBAC, network policies, cluster hardening, banking regulatory standards, image scanning, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement.
  • Operate observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and EFK/ELK; troubleshoot performance and reliability.
  • Provide 24/7 production support, incident leadership, root cause analysis, and remediation.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship, support platform teams, and collaborate across cloud, infrastructure, security, networking, SRE, and application teams.

Responsibilities

  • Design, architect, and operate enterprise-scale OpenShift v4.x platforms across on-premises, private-cloud, and managed services including ARO and ROSA.
  • Define hybrid and multi-cloud architectures and integrate on-premises clusters with cloud-hosted clusters while maintaining security and operational consistency.
  • Build and maintain OpenShift infrastructure across bare-metal, virtualized, and cloud environments, including networking, storage, ingress, and security integration.
  • Own platform installation, upgrades, patching, capacity planning, scaling, and platform health.
  • Advise on container platforms, application modernization, and cloud-native adoption strategies.
  • Design secure hybrid connectivity and ingress/egress patterns for on-premises and cloud clusters.
  • Develop technical architectures, solution blueprints, and design documents; present proposals and roadmaps to review boards, leaders, and stakeholders.
  • Implement and manage Operators, OperatorHub, Tekton pipelines, Argo CD GitOps, and Istio Service Mesh.
  • Automate and standardize platform operations using Ansible, Terraform where applicable, Bash, and Python; support compliant CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
  • Integrate identity providers, container registries, monitoring, logging, certificate management, and cloud-native services.
  • Enforce platform security and compliance, manage container security tooling, and address image scanning and vulnerabilities.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot platform performance, availability, and reliability; lead root cause analysis, recovery, mentorship, team coordination, and 24/7 production incident response.

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