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Cavendish Professionals are looking to speak to highly skilled Senior OpenShift Platform Engineers with strong hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift platform engineering and administration, with deep knowledge of Kubernetes and container networking.
The successful candidate will have experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift environments, with a focus on Kubernetes networking, scalable and secure container platforms, automation, reliability and operational excellence.
Skills and Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift platform engineering and administration.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture, components and cluster operations, and Kubernetes container networking, including OVN-Kubernetes and Container Network Interface (CNI) frameworks. This role will have a focus on high availability, scalability, performance and security
- Hands-on experience with Cilium, eBPF and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium.
- Experience with network policies, ingress controllers and service mesh technologies.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, Ansible or similar automation tools.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies and container ecosystem tools.
- Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux is preferred.
- Knowledge of observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and OpenTelemetry is preferred.
- Experience integrating Kubernetes platforms with enterprise security solutions and supporting hybrid cloud and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments is preferred.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, administer and optimise enterprise Red Hat OpenShift container platforms across development, testing and production environments.
- Manage and support Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on high availability, scalability, performance and security.
- Implement and troubleshoot container networking solutions, including Kubernetes CNI frameworks and OVN-Kubernetes architectures.
- Design, configure and maintain advanced networking, network policies, service connectivity and ingress/egress controls.
- Deploy, configure and support Cilium and Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium to enable secure, observable and scalable Kubernetes networking.
- Leverage eBPF technologies to enhance networking, security, observability and performance monitoring capabilities.
- Develop automation solutions for platform provisioning, upgrades, patching and lifecycle management.
- Partner with application, security and infrastructure teams to ensure platform stability, compliance and operational excellence.
- Monitor platform health, capacity and performance while identifying opportunities for optimisation.
- Implement and maintain security best practices across Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking and container-related issues in production environments.
- Create technical documentation, operational procedures and architectural standards.
Qualifications and Education:
- 5+ years of experience managing Kubernetes-based container platforms.
- Red Hat OpenShift certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, OpenShift Administration or OpenShift Development certifications) are preferred.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) certification is preferred.
For more information – please apply for this job or send your CV directly and I will call you back to provide you with more details.
Cavendish (Recruitment) Professionals Ltd are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we believe that inclusivity begins with the candidate experience. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief.
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