Senior/Lead OpenShift Engineer

Location: Pune

Work Experience: 10+ years of IT experience with 5+ years in OpenShift platform engineering.

Requirements:

• Extensive hands-on experience with multi-cluster OpenShift environments.
• Proven experience handling large-scale, mission-critical production platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting experience across:
  • Kubernetes core components
  • OpenShift control plane
  • Networking (SDN/OVN, ingress, load balancers)
  • Persistent storage solutions
• Experience leading critical incident management calls.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, etc.).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid environments.
• Deep understanding of container security and cluster hardening.
• Experience with OpenShift upgrades across major versions (Preferred).
• Experience with service mesh and advanced networking configurations (Preferred).
• Knowledge of GitOps frameworks (Preferred).
• Experience designing DR and multi-region failover strategies (Preferred).
• Relevant certifications: OpenShift, Kubernetes, Cloud (Preferred).
• Key Competencies: Leadership under pressure, strategic thinking, strong decision-making ability, high ownership and accountability, excellent communication skills, proactive risk management mindset.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, or equivalent work experience.

Job Description:

Platform Architecture & Cluster Management

• Design, deploy, and manage multiple OpenShift clusters (production, DR, staging) across hybrid/cloud/on-prem environments.
• Architect scalable, resilient, and secure OpenShift platforms supporting high workloads and large resource counts (thousands of pods, services, namespaces, etc.).
• Lead cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, patching, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery readiness, and zero/near-zero downtime deployments.

Operations & Critical Incident Leadership

• Act as technical lead during P1/P0 critical production incidents, driving war-room calls and root cause analysis.
• Resolve cluster-wide outages, control plane failures, networking breakdowns, storage issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Provide leadership-level decision-making during high-impact incidents.
• Develop and implement preventive measures and post-incident action plans.
• Establish operational runbooks and SRE best practices.

Performance & Scale Management

• Manage environments with high resource volume (large node counts, high pod density, heavy traffic workloads).
• Optimize resource utilization (CPU, memory, storage, network).
• Design cluster scaling strategies including autoscaling, node pools, and workload balancing.
• Conduct stress testing and performance benchmarking.

Security & Compliance

• Implement enterprise security controls (RBAC, SCC, network policies, TLS, IAM integration).
• Manage vulnerability, remediation, and cluster hardening.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational security standards.

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement cluster monitoring and logging solutions.
• Proactively monitor cluster health and application performance.
• Establish SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.

Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and mentor platform engineers and Application teams.
• Provide technical governance and architectural direction.
• Collaborate with application teams, security teams, and infrastructure teams.
• Participate in capacity planning and executive-level technical discussions.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across platform engineering.