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) environments.The 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
Bachelor’s 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.
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