OpenShift Platform Engineer

Company: BAMM
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: November 26, 2022

Job Description:

The OpenShift Platform Engineer will be accountable for engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to Delta's Platform-as-a-Service offering.

Overview

The OpenShift Platform & Onboarding Engineer will be accountable for assisting with application migrations to the Delta's containerized Platform-as-a-Service offering. As a member of the Cloud Engineering Team, engineers will also be involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to the platform, automation, and other related activities.

Qualifications:

- Required Skills/Experience:

o 3+ years' experience working with RedHat Openshift Infrastructure design, deployment and operational support.

o Extensive knowledge of Linux Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures

o 2+ year's experience working on foundational work in AWS

o 2+ year's experience working with RedHat Enterprise Linux operating system

o Experience with Java, JBoss, Springboot, WAS/WXS, Node.js and enterprise application architectures

o Specific knowledge and experience with migrating and refactoring applications to containerized workloads

o Demonstrated skill in at least one or more configuration management/scripting technology (such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet)

o Specific knowledge and experience provisioning multi-node HA clusters - including monitoring, performance testing, and application deployment

o Deep conceptual and applied understanding of DevOps concepts, tools, and practices

o Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Nexus, Tekton or comparable substitutes

o Must have good analytic skills and the ability to apply these skills in a multi-tasking environment where more than one project may require participation at a given time.

o Must have outstanding skills in communicating complex technical issues, and providing comprehensive written, oral and/or digital products.



- Desired Skills:

o Working Kubernetes experience.

o Working knowledge of networking topics such as protocols, firewalls, etc.

o Working knowledge of SSL certificate management

o Working experience with Helm Charts

o Experience with Agile teams, tools, practices & ceremonies (kanban, stand-ups, sprints, etc.)

o Keeps abreast of relevant industry leading standards and emerging technologies

o Monitoring Logging: SumoLogic, Dynatrace, QRadar, UIM, Spectrum

o Azure Foundational experience

Responsibilities:

- Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, with a focus on application concerns including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines

- Assist application teams with on-boarding to the Openshift platform - Resource requirements, capacity analysis, troubleshooting support

- Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its constituent components to those less familiar

- Building, testing, and administering several highly available RedHat OpenShift Container Platform clusters

- Work with vendors to develop solutions, feature enhancements, and define technical infrastructure environment specific to our organization

- Work with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integrations with other internal systems.

- Monitor hardware, VM and container metrics for the purposes of maintaining cluster health and identifying thresholds for scaling.

- Rotational 24x7 on-call support

- Define and document standards and guidelines

- Develop and automate repeatable tasks utilizing technologies like Lambdas and step functions.

- Consult with development users to determine requirements and recommend solutions

- Assist with configuration and maintenance of interfaces for related tool integrations

- Performance tuning of infrastructure components.

- Review project deliverables of completeness, quality, and compliance with established project standards.

- Document and communicate the status of progress against plans, taking corrective action if necessary

- Identify, clarify, and resolve project activity issues and risks, escalating as needed

- Upholds enterprise policy guidelines and recommends new and improved guidelines as appropriate

- Partner with architects to design and engineer solutions for internal customers

- Develops and maintains a positive rapport with other teams in the IT organization

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