OpenShift Engineer

About the Role

Norconsult Telematics is seeking an OpenShift Engineer to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is central to the design, deployment, and ongoing management of Red Hat OpenShift environments. The ideal candidate will possess 2-5 years of relevant experience in a similar capacity.

Role Overview

The OpenShift Engineer is responsible for the comprehensive lifecycle management of Red Hat OpenShift environments, encompassing administration, configuration, maintenance, and automation. This position ensures platform availability, scalability, performance, and security. The role involves close collaboration with internal teams, vendors, and application owners to support enterprise containerized workloads and infrastructure operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, configure, and maintain OpenShift environments across bare-metal and virtualized platforms.
• Administer and support Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability and operational stability.
• Perform cluster lifecycle management, including installation, upgrades, patching, scaling, backup, recovery, and decommissioning.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform, container, infrastructure, and application-related issues within OpenShift environments.
• Automate platform provisioning, deployment, and operational tasks using Ansible, GitOps, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Integrate OpenShift platforms with enterprise networking components such as Load Balancers, DNS, and Firewalls.
• Configure and manage storage integrations including SAN, NFS, Ceph, and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF).
• Implement and maintain platform security and compliance controls, including RBAC, IAM, and vulnerability management.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance using enterprise monitoring and logging tools.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and network teams for onboarding and operational activities.
• Develop and maintain architecture documentation, operational procedures, technical standards, and runbooks.
• Provide technical guidance and operational support to internal teams and stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise IT standards, operational policies, and best practices.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in a similar OpenShift or Kubernetes engineering role.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes concepts including Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, Operators, and Namespaces.
• Strong experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Good knowledge of container technologies and container orchestration platforms.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication, coordination, and technical documentation skills.

Technical Skills

• Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Ansible, Shell Scripting, or Python.
• Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls, and Ingress Controllers.
• Knowledge of enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NFS, Ceph, and ODF.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and ELK Stack.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires a proactive approach to maintaining robust and secure OpenShift environments within an enterprise setting.