Open Shift Platform Engineer

Motive

• $85K — $95K *

Ontario, CARemote in Ontario, CA

Enterprise Technology

5 - 7 years of experience

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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

7+ years in infrastructure engineering or platform operations
3+ years of hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering
Proficient in container orchestration and Kubernetes internals
Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMWare, bare metal, and public cloud
Experience with hybrid workload migrations
Proven expertise in backup/restore and disaster recovery
Experience securing environments with RBAC, SELinux, and TLS

Responsibilities

Architect and deploy OpenShift clusters in production environments
Serve as the primary OCP subject matter expert
Work closely with internal teams to integrate services
Lead cluster lifecycle operations including patching and upgrades
Enable workload migration between on-prem and cloud environments
Drive infrastructure security and hardening
Automate cluster provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines
Maintain cluster observability and performance

Benefits

Remote work opportunity from Ontario, Canada
Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
Engagement in high-impact projects across various environments
Collaboration with cross-functional teams
Potential for professional development and certifications

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Full Job Description

Open Shift Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

- Architect and deploy OpenShift (OCP) clusters in production environments across bare metal, VMWare, and public cloud platforms.
- Serve as the primary OCP subject matter expert, driving best practices and standards across the organization.
- Work closely with internal teams (networking, OS, DB, applications) to integrate services and support workloads.
- Lead cluster lifecycle operations, including patching, upgrades, and backup/restore strategies for high availability and disaster recovery.
- Enable workload migration between on-prem and cloud environments (e.g., hybrid deployments) for optimization of performance, cost, and capacity.
- Drive infrastructure security and hardening, aligning with best practices in regulated and large-scale environments.
- Automate cluster provisioning and maintenance using CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Maintain cluster observability and performance using logging, metrics, and alerting tools.

Required Skills & Experience:

- 7+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering or platform operations.
- 3+ years of hands-on OpenShift (OCP) platform engineering in production environments.
- Proficient in container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, and OpenShift ecosystem tools.
- Deep knowledge of infrastructure architecture across VMWare, bare metal, and public cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with hybrid workload migrations and managing cost/resource trade-offs across environments.
- Proven expertise in backup/restore procedures, disaster recovery, and high availability configurations.
- Experience hardening and securing environments with RBAC, SELinux, TLS, logging, and audit trails.
- Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools such as Ansible, Terraform, GitOps.

Nice-to-Have:

- OpenShift certifications (e.g., Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration).
- Experience in managed services or telco/broadband environments.
- Familiarity with database and storage integration in containerized workloads.
- Exposure to compliance and security standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Remote: Ontario, Canada

85K- 95K

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* Ladders Estimates

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