Senior Platform Consultant

About T&S

T&S is a B2B service provider in the GCC, specializing in end-to-end corporate business and digital solutions. The company serves Saudi government entities, as well as leading Saudi and international corporations. This full-time role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Role Overview

T&S is seeking a Senior Platform Consultant – Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible & Virtualization for an outsourcing opportunity. This role involves designing, deploying, administering, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and platform infrastructure environments. The consultant will be responsible for supporting complex enterprise environments and critical production migrations, working across the full platform lifecycle from architecture and deployment through Day-2 operations, troubleshooting, upgrades, migration, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and maintain enterprise Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) environments.
• Perform OpenShift deployments using IPI, UPI, and/or ABI across various infrastructure environments, including bare metal, VMware, Nutanix, GCP, and AWS.
• Manage and troubleshoot disconnected/restricted-network OpenShift environments, including image and platform component management.
• Execute OpenShift Day-2 operations such as cluster monitoring, ingress and networking, logging, backup and restore, upgrades, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery.
• Design and implement platform integrations covering networking, storage, identity, security, logging, monitoring, GitOps, and disaster recovery.
• Administer and support OpenShift Virtualization, including VM deployment, migration, storage integration, templates, backup, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Implement and maintain Ansible-based automation for infrastructure and platform operations, supporting Ansible Automation Platform and Event-Driven Ansible.
• Administer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments, including patching, hardening, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Perform production troubleshooting across Linux, OpenShift, Kubernetes, networking, storage, virtualization, and security layers.
• Support critical production migrations, encompassing environment assessment, migration planning, dependency analysis, rollback planning, execution, and post-migration validation.
• Implement security hardening, vulnerability remediation, access controls, and platform security best practices.
• Perform backup/restore validation, failover testing, and disaster recovery readiness activities.
• Support enterprise automation and DevOps practices using technologies such as Git, Argo CD, Tekton, Terraform, Vault, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, networking, application, and other technical teams to resolve complex platform issues.
• Provide technical consulting, documentation, knowledge transfer, and customer-facing technical support as required.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of experience in a relevant field.
• Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift, Ansible, RHEL, virtualization, Kubernetes, networking, storage, security, automation, monitoring, and production infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ability to support complex enterprise environments and critical production migrations.
• Proficiency in managing enterprise production environments and troubleshooting complex infrastructure and OpenShift issues.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively with technical stakeholders.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the outlined qualifications are encouraged to apply for this Senior Platform Consultant position.