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The role supports WWT’s container platform strategy by engineering and maintaining highly available OpenShift clusters, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, and cloud capabilities, while helping application teams onboard and operate workloads securely and reliably.\n\nResponsibilities\nServe as a liaison between the infrastructure team and application development teams, guiding them through onboarding, containerization patterns, and self-service deployment to Kubernetes/OpenShift\nAssist in designing, building, and maintaining OpenShift clusters — control plane, worker nodes, networking, storage, and Operators — ensuring high availability, performance, and capacity for production workloads\nMaintain OpenShift platform health through node lifecycle management, cluster upgrades, and Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), keeping the fleet current and secure\nBuild, maintain, and continuously improve CI/CD and GitOps pipelines that automate build, test, and deployment for application teams\nManage and maintain Argo CD Applications and ApplicationSets, driving automated, git- based deployment and lifecycle management of workloads across clusters\nUse Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) to manage policy, governance, and application lifecycle across multiple OpenShift clusters\nPartner with application development teams to containerize applications, define resource requests/limits and autoscaling policies, and design namespace, RBAC, and network policy structures\nDevelop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation (Ansible, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform) to standardize cluster provisioning, configuration, and upgrades\nPartner with security team to implement and maintain platform security controls, including image scanning, Security Context Constraints, admission policies (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper), and secrets management (Vault)\nConfigure and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana) to ensure platform health and rapid incident response\nExtend platform capabilities into the cloud, working with Microsoft Azure (Azure Red Hat OpenShift/AKS) and other cloud platforms to support hybrid and multi-cloud container strategies\nMaintain reliability through capacity planning, backup and disaster recovery, change management, and tested rollback procedures; 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