Open Shift Platform Engineer

Role overview Design, operate, and improve production OpenShift platforms across on-premises infrastructure and public cloud environments. As the platform’s technical lead, you will set operational standards, support application workloads, and guide hybrid infrastructure decisions while maintaining security, availability, and performance.

Responsibilities - Architect and deploy OpenShift clusters on bare metal, VMware, and public cloud infrastructure. - Establish platform practices and advise teams as the organization’s OpenShift subject matter expert. - Coordinate with networking, operating system, database, and application teams to integrate services and support workloads. - Lead cluster patching, upgrades, backup and recovery planning, and high availability operations. - Plan workload moves between on-premises and cloud environments, balancing performance, capacity, and cost. - Automate provisioning and maintenance, strengthen security controls, and maintain logs, metrics, and alerts.

Requirements - At least 7 years in infrastructure engineering or platform operations, including 3 or more years engineering production OpenShift platforms. - Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, container orchestration, and OpenShift tools. - Experience with infrastructure architecture spanning VMware, bare metal, and public cloud providers. - Practical expertise in hybrid workload migration, high availability, disaster recovery, and backup restoration. - Experience securing platforms with controls such as RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails. - Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code approaches, such as Ansible, Terraform, or GitOps.

Nice to have - OpenShift administration certification, experience in managed services or telecommunications, or knowledge of database and storage integration for container workloads. - Exposure to compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role based in Ontario, Canada. - Listed compensation range: 85,000–95,000; currency and pay period are not specified in the source.