Red Hat OCP Admin

Apexon

$100K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in OpenShift administration, Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure
  • Mastery in DevOps, Linux (Red Hat), Site Reliability Engineering, and Ansible Automation
  • Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
  • Experience implementing security and compliance controls in enterprise settings
  • Experience managing OpenShift clusters in large-scale production environments

Responsibilities

  • Lead administration and operational support of OpenShift clusters on AWS
  • Manage and troubleshoot platform issues across multiple layers
  • Design and implement OpenShift integrations with AWS services
  • Own cluster health, performance, and scaling for AWS environments
  • Implement automation for cluster provisioning and compliance processes
  • Support CI/CD and GitOps processes using OpenShift Pipelines and tools
  • Enforce security measures, including RBAC and IAM integration

Benefits

  • Health Insurance with Dental & Vision
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Life Insurance, STD & LTD
  • Paid Vacations & Holidays
  • Continuous Learning and Career Development Opportunities
Full Job Description
Role: Red Hat OCP Admin Lead

Location: Remote

Position: 1

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) Admin Lead to lead administration, support, automation, and operational governance of OpenShift environments hosted on AWS. This role is responsible for ensuring platform reliability, security, scalability, automation, and developer enablement across containerized workloads. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, Red Hat Linux, AWS infrastructure, DevOps practices, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), along with strong leadership capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead administration, configuration, patching, upgrades, and operational support of OpenShift clusters running on AWS
• Manage and troubleshoot platform issues across Kubernetes, compute, networking, storage, ingress, IAM, and container runtime layers
• Design, implement, and support OpenShift integrations with AWS services including VPC, EC2, EBS, ELB/ALB/NLB, Route 53, IAM, CloudWatch, and S3
• Own cluster health, performance, availability, backup and recovery, scaling, and capacity planning for AWS-hosted environments
• Implement and maintain automation for cluster provisioning, configuration management, compliance, and operational processes using Ansible, Terraform, and scripting
• Support CI/CD and GitOps enablement using OpenShift Pipelines, ArgoCD, Jenkins, and GitLab
• Enforce platform security controls including RBAC, IAM integration, secrets management, network policies, image governance, and platform hardening
• Manage namespaces, quotas, storage classes, routes, certificates, and developer self-service capabilities
• Partner with cloud, security, application, and operations teams to ensure secure and reliable platform delivery
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers and administrators, and establish operational standards, runbooks, and incident response procedures
• Drive platform engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives

Required Skills:
• DevOps - Mastery
• Kubernetes - Mastery
• Linux (Red Hat) - Mastery
• OpenShift Administration - Mastery
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - Mastery
• Ansible Automation - Mastery
• AWS Infrastructure - Mastery
• GitLab - Mastery
• Strong experience managing OpenShift clusters on AWS
• Expertise in container orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning experience
• Experience implementing security and compliance controls in enterprise environments

Preferred Skills:
• Terraform experience
• ArgoCD and GitOps implementation experience
• Jenkins and CI/CD pipeline administration
• Cloud-native architecture experience
• Enterprise platform engineering experience
• Experience supporting highly available and large-scale production environments
• Strong leadership and mentoring experience

Expected Deliverables:
• OCP Configuration Documents
• OpenShift Administration and Operational Runbooks
• AWS Integration Documentation
• Automation Scripts and Playbooks
• Platform Security and Compliance Documentation
• Disaster Recovery and Backup Procedures
• Capacity Planning and Performance Reports
• Operational Governance Documentation

Education Requirement:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

Our Perks and Benefits:

Our benefits and rewards program has been thoughtfully designed to recognize your skills and contributions, elevate your learning experience, and provide care and support for you and your loved ones.

We also offer:
• Health Insurance with Dental & Vision
• 401(k) Plan
• Life Insurance, STD & LTD
• Paid Vacations & Holidays
• Continuous Learning and Career Development Opportunities

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