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Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer (Hybrid Cloud)
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Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift / Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure & Operations team. In this role, you will be responsible for the engineering, operation, automation, and continuous improvement of the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform supporting mission-critical workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
You will combine platform operations with project delivery, helping to modernize infrastructure through automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native technologies while ensuring the highest standards of security, resilience, compliance, and operational excellence.
This position requires a highly skilled infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in container platforms, Linux, infrastructure automation, and enterprise platform engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Operations
- Operate, maintain, and continuously improve the Bank’s enterprise OpenShift and Kubernetes platform.
- Ensure platform stability, scalability, security, and performance across hybrid cloud environments.
- Perform complete platform lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, maintenance, and decommissioning.
- Participate in a rotating on-call support schedule within a four-person team.
Kubernetes & Container Platform
- Design, implement, and operate enterprise-grade Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Manage networking, storage, security, and cluster services.
- Develop reusable container platform standards, templates, and base images.
- Support business application teams in adopting cloud-native technologies and containerized workloads.
- Provide architectural guidance for high availability, disaster recovery, and workload resilience.
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Automation & Infrastructure as Code
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
- Build reusable automation frameworks using Ansible, Terraform, and GitOps methodologies.
- Improve operational efficiency through scripting and automation.
- Standardize platform configuration management and orchestration.
DevOps & CI/CD
- Design and maintain GitOps workflows using Argo CD.
- Integrate CI/CD pipelines into infrastructure deployment processes.
- Promote DevOps best practices across infrastructure and application delivery teams.
- Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to enable automated application deployment.
Platform Security & Resilience
- Integrate security scanning, compliance controls, and observability into the platform.
- Ensure alignment with Bank security standards, governance, and change management processes.
- Design resilient platform architectures supporting disaster recovery and business continuity.
Technology Strategy & Innovation
- Contribute to the Bank’s hybrid cloud strategy and platform roadmap.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements.
- Drive automation initiatives across the infrastructure landscape.
- Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
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Collaboration
- Work closely with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, Storage, Cloud, and Application Development teams.
- Support development teams building cloud-native, serverless, and containerized applications.
- Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications
Required
- Minimum 5 years of experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes platform engineering within enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux administration, container technologies, and hybrid cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience with OVN-K, Ceph/CSI, Quay, Argo CD/GitOps, Velero, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, and Go scripting.
- Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, CI/CD, Git, and DevOps practices.
- Strong understanding of automation, platform lifecycle management, and cloud-native technologies.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred
- Experience with data centre infrastructure, networking, virtualization, and public cloud integration.
- Knowledge of OAuth, token-based authentication, and REST API integrations.
- Experience working in Agile environments and contributing to technology strategy and platform modernization.
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