OpenShift Senior Engineer

About the Role

Norconsult Telematics is seeking an OpenShift Senior Engineer to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time position involves designing, deploying, and managing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments to ensure high availability, scalability, security, and operational stability. The role requires collaboration with internal teams and vendors to meet business and application requirements.

Position Objective

The primary objective of this role is to support platform automation and lifecycle management within OpenShift environments. The Senior Engineer will be responsible for maintaining robust and secure container platforms that align with organizational needs and application demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain OpenShift environments across bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform and infrastructure issues to maintain performance and stability.
• Manage the cluster lifecycle, including capacity planning, upgrades, patching, scaling, and decommissioning.
• Implement and maintain high availability, scalability, and security across OpenShift environments.
• Automate platform provisioning and operations using Ansible, GitOps with Argo CD, and continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Integrate OpenShift with load balancers, MetalLB, ingress, DNS, firewalls, and storage solutions, including SAN, NFS, and Ceph/OpenShift Data Foundation.
• Implement security and compliance controls, including role-based access control, identity and access management, image security, vulnerability scanning, and secrets management.
• Collaborate with application, security, network, and infrastructure teams to support application onboarding and ongoing operations.
• Monitor cluster health and performance using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK, and respond to incidents.
• Maintain architecture documentation, operational procedures, runbooks, and platform best practices.
• Coordinate with vendors and provide technical guidance to engineering, application, operations, and support teams.

Required Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in OpenShift or similar container platform environments.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role involves working within a collaborative environment, engaging with various technical teams and external vendors to achieve platform objectives.

Application Process

Salary details for this position will be discussed during the interview process.