OpenShift Platform Engineer – Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins & GitOps

Job Summary Synechron is seeking a OpenShift Platform Engineer / OpenShift Administrator with strong expertise in OpenShift administration, cloud migration, automation, and infrastructure management. The role will involve installing, configuring, automating, securing, and managing large-scale OpenShift clusters and containerized workloads. The successful candidate will implement Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and GitOps practices while supporting enterprise cloud migration and platform operations. This position will contribute to business objectives by improving platform stability, deployment efficiency, scalability, availability, security, disaster recovery readiness, and operational consistency across enterprise environments. Software Requirements Required Software Skills • Red Hat OpenShift: Strong hands-on experience administering, configuring, troubleshooting, securing, and optimizing large-scale OpenShift clusters. • Kubernetes/OpenShift: Strong understanding of container platform operations, cluster architecture, workloads, networking, storage, and platform lifecycle management. • Terraform: Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code for infrastructure provisioning and platform configuration. • Ansible: Experience automating infrastructure management, configuration, deployment, and operational tasks. • Jenkins: Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. • GitOps tools and practices: Experience implementing Git-based configuration management and deployment processes. • KubeVirt: Understanding and experience managing OpenShift Virtualization workloads. • Cloud migration technologies: Experience supporting application and infrastructure migration to cloud platforms. • DNS technologies: Strong knowledge of authoritative and non-authoritative DNS, Dynamic DNS, BIND DNS, and DNS forwarders. • SSL/TLS technologies: Understanding of SSL handshakes, cipher suites, encryption algorithms, certificates, and secure communications. • Active Directory: Experience with Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies. • Certificate management: Experience with SAN certificates, client authentication, keystores, and mutual SSL (mTLS). • Vault solutions: Hands-on experience with CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault solutions. • API technologies: Good understanding of REST and SOAP APIs, including developing API consumers and publishers. • Infrastructure components: Experience managing load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors. Preferred Software Skills • Enterprise-scale Kubernetes and OpenShift environments. • Cloud-native infrastructure and application migration tools. • Platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions. • Disaster recovery, backup, and resilience tooling. • Additional automation and configuration-management tools relevant to enterprise platform operations. Version and Experience Guidance • Specific product versions are not prescribed in the requirements. • Candidates should have experience with current, production-supported versions of OpenShift, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, and related tools. • Candidates should be able to assess compatibility, plan upgrades, apply version controls, and support platform lifecycle management. • Experience should include hands-on administration and operational support in enterprise environments. Overall Responsibilities • Install, configure, automate, administer, and maintain large-scale Red Hat OpenShift clusters. • Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins. • Lead and support application migrations to cloud platforms. • Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment processes. • Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize OpenShift platform performance, availability, capacity, and security. • Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift Virtualization using KubeVirt. • Work with development, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to maintain platform stability and scalability. • Design and implement high-availability and disaster-recovery strategies for critical services. • Support enterprise platform architecture, infrastructure integration, and operational readiness. • Manage and troubleshoot DNS services, SSL/TLS communications, certificates, Active Directory integrations, load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors. • Implement and maintain secure secrets and credentials management using Vault solutions such as CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault. • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automation playbooks, infrastructure modules, and GitOps workflows. • Define and maintain platform standards, operating procedures, technical documentation, and recovery processes. • Identify and resolve platform risks related to performance, availability, security, scalability, and operational continuity. • Improve resource utilization and platform sustainability through automation, capacity planning, workload optimization, and efficient infrastructure practices. Technical Skills (By Category) Programming Languages Essential • Scripting and automation experience using languages supported by Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, and enterprise platform tooling. • Ability to develop automation scripts, configuration logic, API integrations, and operational utilities. • Ability to work with structured configuration formats used in infrastructure and deployment automation. Preferred • Experience with Python or other scripting languages used for infrastructure automation. • Experience developing reusable automation modules, scripts, and platform integrations. • Familiarity with scripting for monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational reporting. Databases/Data Management Essential • Understanding of data persistence and storage requirements for containerized workloads. • Understanding of configuration, secrets, certificates, logs, and platform metadata management. • Ability to apply appropriate access, retention, backup, and recovery controls to infrastructure-related data. Preferred • Experience supporting persistent workloads on OpenShift or Kubernetes. • Familiarity with storage classes, persistent volumes, backup strategies, and disaster recovery requirements. • Exposure to platform monitoring data, centralized logging, and operational metrics. Cloud Technologies Essential • Experience with cloud migration and container platform operations. • Strong understanding of OpenShift and Kubernetes platform architecture. • Experience managing large-scale containerized workloads. • Understanding of high availability, resilient infrastructure design, scalability, and disaster recovery. • Experience supporting cloud-based platform deployment, configuration, and operations. Preferred • Experience with enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift environments. • Familiarity with cloud-native networking, storage, identity, security, and resource management. • Experience with cloud cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure sustainability. • Experience supporting hybrid or multi-environment platform operations. Frameworks and Libraries Essential • Terraform for Infrastructure as Code. • Ansible for configuration management and automation. • Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline implementation. • GitOps practices for configuration management and deployment. • OpenShift and Kubernetes administration frameworks and platform tools. • KubeVirt for OpenShift Virtualization workloads. • REST and SOAP API integration technologies. • DNS technologies, including BIND DNS, Dynamic DNS, DNS forwarders, authoritative DNS, and non-authoritative DNS. • SSL/TLS technologies, including SSL handshakes, cipher suites, encryption algorithms, certificates, keystores, and mTLS. • Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies. • Vault solutions, including CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault. • Load balancers, firewalls, and site selectors. Preferred • Additional OpenShift and Kubernetes ecosystem tools. • Platform m