OpenShift DevOps Engineer – Terraform, Ansible & GitOps

Job Summary

Synechron is seeking a DevOps PaaS OpenShift Administrator with 7 years of experience in platform engineering DevOps infrastructure administration and cloud migration. The role will focus on installing automating managing and supporting large-scale OpenShift clusters and Platform as a Service (PaaS) position will contribute to business objectives by improving platform availability deployment automation infrastructure consistency application migration operational resilience security and scalability across enterprise environments.

Software Requirements

Required

• Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps platform engineering infrastructure administration cloud engineering or a related technical role.

• Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments; 8 years of relevant experience is preferred.

• Hands-on experience installing configuring automating upgrading and managing large-scale OpenShift clusters.

• Strong practical experience with:

  • Terraform.

  • Jenkins.

  • Ansible.

  • GitOps-based configuration management and deployment.

• Experience migrating applications to cloud environments.

• Strong knowledge of OpenShift administration cluster operations troubleshooting scaling high availability and lifecycle management.

• Experience with API communication using REST and SOAP.

• Ability to develop or configure API consumers and publishers.

• Knowledge of infrastructure concepts networking compute storage operating systems and platform dependencies.

• Experience with configuration management orchestration and Infrastructure as Code.

• Experience with Helm charts Argo CD Jenkinsfiles Groovy Bash PowerShell or Python.

• Knowledge of DNS SSL/TLS communication certificates load balancers firewalls identity services and secrets management.

• Familiarity with source control release management incident management monitoring and operational support.

Preferred

• Experience with OpenShift virtualization using KubeVirt or equivalent virtualization technologies.

• Knowledge of authoritative and non-authoritative DNS dynamic DNS BIND DNS forwarding and resolution flows.

• Experience with Active Directory security organizational units policies and directory-based authentication.

• Knowledge of SSL/TLS handshakes cipher suites encryption algorithms keystores SAN certificates client authentication and mutual TLS.

• Experience with load balancers site selectors firewall rules and traffic-routing configurations.

• Familiarity with enterprise vault and secrets-management platforms.

• Experience with platform modernization workload migration disaster recovery capacity planning and high-availability design.

• Knowledge of sustainability practices resource optimization and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure management.

Overall Responsibilities

• Install configure automate manage and support large-scale OpenShift clusters and PaaS environments.

• Maintain high availability reliability scalability security and operational performance of OpenShift platforms.

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management using Ansible.

• Design implement and manage Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-driven deployment processes.

• Create and maintain Helm charts Argo CD configurations Jenkinsfiles and deployment automation.

• Support the migration of applications from existing environments to cloud and OpenShift platforms.

• Collaborate with development architecture security infrastructure operations and application teams to define platform requirements.

• Troubleshoot cluster networking storage deployment configuration API certificate and application platform issues.

• Support REST and SOAP API communication and develop or configure API consumers and publishers where required.

• Configure and maintain DNS SSL/TLS certificates load balancers firewalls identity integrations and secrets-management capabilities.

• Support OpenShift virtualization and related platform services where applicable.

• Implement monitoring alerting logging capacity management backup recovery and operational readiness practices.

• Identify and implement improvements to automation platform stability deployment speed security and resource utilization.

• Maintain technical documentation for platform architecture cluster configurations deployment processes operational procedures and recovery plans.

• Ensure platform solutions align with security standards governance requirements regulatory obligations and sustainability considerations.

Technical Skills (By Category)

Programming Languages and Scripting

Essential

• Bash scripting for platform administration automation and operational support.

• Groovy for Jenkins pipeline development and Jenkinsfile creation.

• Python for automation integration platform utilities and operational tooling.

• PowerShell for infrastructure and platform administration where required.

• Helm templating for application packaging and deployment configuration.

• Ability to write maintainable reusable and testable automation scripts.

Preferred

• Experience developing reusable Python modules and automation frameworks.

• Familiarity with YAML JSON and other configuration and data-exchange formats.

• Knowledge of scripting standards error handling logging testing and secure credential management.

Databases/Data Management

Essential

• Understanding of platform data dependencies persistent storage data availability and data protection.

• Knowledge of storage classes persistent volumes backups replication and recovery considerations in container platforms.

• Ability to support applications with different database connectivity availability and performance requirements.

• Understanding of secure data handling and access control for platform-hosted applications.

Preferred

• Familiarity with database deployment and integration on OpenShift or cloud platforms.

• Knowledge of data migration storage optimization backup validation and disaster recovery.

• Understanding of database connectivity through REST SOAP and other integration methods.

• Experience supporting stateful workloads in containerized environments.

Cloud Technologies

Essential

• Hands-on experience migrating applications to cloud environments.

• Understanding of cloud infrastructure networking compute storage identity security availability and scalability.

• Experience operating OpenShift as a cloud or hybrid-cloud PaaS platform.

• Knowledge of cloud deployment patterns platform dependencies environment configuration and operational support.

Preferred

• Experience with hybrid-cloud and multi-environment OpenShift deployments.

• Familiarity with cloud-native services managed networking load balancing monitoring and secrets management.

• Knowledge of cloud disaster recovery capacity planning cost optimization and resource governance.

• Understanding of sustainable cloud infrastructure design and resource utilization.

Frameworks and Libraries

Essential

• OpenShift administration using current and supported enterprise versions.

• Kubernetes administration concepts including pods deployments services routes or ingress namespaces operators storage and scheduling.

• Helm charts for application packaging and deployment.

• Argo CD or equivalent GitOps deployment tooling.

• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

• Ansible for configuration management and automation.

• Jenkins for CI/CD automation.

Preferred

• KubeVirt or equivalent OpenShift virtualization technology.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators custom resources admission controls and platform extensions.

• Experience with service mesh API gateways container registries and platform integration tools.

• Knowledge of reusable Terraform modules Ansible roles and standardized deployment frameworks.

Development Tools and Methodologies

Essential

• Git-based source control and GitOps practices.

• Jenkins pipeline development and CI/CD lifecycle management.

• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.

• Configuration management and orchestration using Ansible.

• Deployment automation using Helm and Argo CD.

• Familiarity with Agile or iterative delivery practices.

• Experience with change management incident management release management monitoring and operational support.

• Ability to document architecture configurations deployment flows dependencies risks and recovery procedures.

Preferred

• Experience implementing automated testing security scanning compliance checks and quality gates in CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with pull-request-based infrastructure and application deployment.

• Knowledge of configuration drift detection policy enforcement and automated environment validation.

• Experience with disaster recovery testing platform resilience assessments and capacity planning.

• Familiarity with observability dashboards distributed tracing and service-level monitoring.

Security Protocols

Essential

• Understanding of secure OpenShift Kubernetes cloud and infrastructure administration.

• Knowledge of authentication authorization role-based access control identity and access management and directory integration.

• Understanding of DNS security firewall rules network controls secure connectivity and traffic routing.

• Knowledge of SSL/TLS communication including handshakes cipher suites encryption algorithms SAN certificates client authentication keystores and mutual TLS.

• Experience with secrets management certificate lifecycle management audit logging and secure configuration.

• Ability to apply security and compliance requirements to CI/CD pipelines infrastructure containers and application deployments.

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise vault and secrets-management solutions.

• Knowledge of container image scanning runtime security network policies platform hardening and vulnerability remediation.

• Familiarity with security testing threat modeling compliance validation and audit support.

• Experience supporting security reviews risk assessments remediation plans and regulatory requirements.

Experience Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps platform engineering infrastructure administration cloud engineering or related technical roles.

• 8 years of experience in a relevant technical position within large organizations is preferred based on the stated role requirements.

• Hands-on experience installing automating managing upgrading and troubleshooting large-scale OpenShift clusters.

• Strong experience with Terraform Jenkins Ansible and GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment.

• Experience migrating applications to cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.

• Experience with Kubernetes OpenShift containerized applications CI/CD Infrastructure as Code and configuration management.

• Experience with Helm charts Argo CD Groovy Bash PowerShell and Python.

• Experience with REST and SOAP API communication and API consumer or publisher development.

• Experience supporting DNS SSL/TLS certificates Active Directory load balancers site selectors firewalls secrets management and high-availability environments.

• Experience collaborating with application development infrastructure security architecture operations and support teams.

• Experience in financial services banking regulated industries or other large enterprise environments is preferred.

• Candidates may also qualify through equivalent practical experience relevant technical certifications professional training or demonstrated delivery of complex OpenShift and cloud migration initiatives.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Administer OpenShift clusters review platform health manage configurations troubleshoot incidents and support high availability scalability and reliability.

• Develop and maintain Terraform Ansible Jenkins Helm and Argo CD automation for infrastructure provisioning configuration management and GitOps deployments.

• Collaborate with development security infrastructure application and operations teams through technical reviews migration planning release activities and incident discussions.

• Monitor platform performance validate DNS certificates API network and security configurations maintain documentation and make implementation decisions within approved standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Engineering or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.

• Minimum 7 years of experience in DevOps platform engineering OpenShift administration cloud engineering or related technical roles.

• Certifications in OpenShift Kubernetes cloud computing Terraform Ansible DevOps or security are preferred.

• Complete Synechron-required training related to information security data protection workplace conduct risk management and responsible technology use.

• Maintain continuous professional development in OpenShift Kubernetes Terraform Ansible Jenkins GitOps cloud migration security automation and platform operations.

Professional Competencies

• Critical thinking platform analysis incident investigation and structured problem-solving.

• Technical ownership cross-functional collaboration knowledge sharing and operational accountability.

• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Adaptability continuous learning and effective response to changing platform and infrastructure requirements.

• Innovation focused on automation reliability security scalability and sustainable infrastructure practices.

• Effective prioritization organization time management incident response and delivery focus.

SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.

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