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