We are looking for an experienced OpenShift Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of OpenShift, Kubernetes, and virtualization technologies. You will be responsible for designing, deploying, and managing virtualized workloads within OpenShift clusters while ensuring high availability, security, and performance.

Key Responsibilities: 

 List of Competencies Azalio is looking for in the RHOCP candidate.

1. RHOCP Commissioning and Deployment: 

• Good hands-on experience in deployment of RHOCP on BareMetal Servers with external SAN Storage
• Every release is bringing new issues. E.g. OCP 4.16 bonding is not working. Candidate needs to be on the toe knowing the releases changes w.r.t our usage of RHOCP
• Up to date with all the OpenShift platform deployment variants and releases

1. RHOCP Skills and Upgrades: 

• OCP upgrades.
• Operator upgrades.
• Understand clearly the upgrade paths of RHOCP mainly w.r.t our usage and context of OCP releases and upgrade cycles.

1. Security Hardening of RHOCP, Operators, OCP-V etc.
2. Advance Storage Technologies such as LVM, ISCSI, Multipath, SAN & NAS, Red Hat CEPH Storage (ODF)
3. Advance OCP Networking: Bonding, Bridging, Switching, VLAN Configuration, OVN, OVS, NAD, NNCP, Multus secondary network etc.
4. Disaster Recovery solution using OCP.
5. Kernel and Performance tuning: Memory, I/O tuning, queue depths tuning, boosting storage IOPS by tuning at RHCOS level, OCP level etc.
6. Knowledge of Middleware services on OCP like Observability stack (monitoring, auditing and logging), Service Mesh, Secret Management (Vault) etc.
7. Backup and Restore of OCP and its workload
8. Candidate must be hands-on lab environment, good at Root cause analysis and has advance troubleshooting capabilities.
9. Candidate is having Red Hat Certification in key areas of RHOCP (Deployment, Configuration, Administration, Workload onboarding, OCP-V etc.)
10. Candidate helps us in prototyping and identifying appropriate solutions to achieve system requirements for OpenShift platform.
11. Candidate understands our product requirements and helps in dimensioning and defining deployment architecture.
12. Candidate can suggest improvements for the platform deployment and configuration on a continuous basis.
13. Candidate can support us in debugging and resolving issues from field and internal verification rounds.

     Preferred Skills:

• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Tekton)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Relevant certifications (RHCE, Red Hat OpenShift Specialist) preferred

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Red Hat certifications are a plus

Behavioral Competency:

• Have good attention to detail and accuracy.
• Be able to engage with customers and to identify their true needs (beyond problems presented); managing expectations.
• Proactive and self-managing: able to initiate and plan new work and carry on job duties and meet timeframes without direct supervision.
• Willing to approach undefined problems with innovation, creativity, and adaptability. 

     Required Experience: 5-10 years