Job Description:
We are looking for an experienced OpenShift Virtualization Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of OpenShift Kubernetes and virtualization technologies. You will be responsible for designing deploying and managing virtualized workloads within OpenShift clusters while ensuring high availability security and performance.
Key Responsibilities:
List of Competencies NM is looking for in the RH Consultant
RHOCP Commissioning and Deployment:
Good handson experience in deployment of RHOCP on BareMetal Servers with external SAN Storage
Every release is bringing new issues. E.g. OCP 4.16 bonding is not working. Consultant needs to be on the toe knowing the releases changes w.r.t our usage of RHOCP
Up to date with all the OpenShift platform deployment variants and releases
RHOCP Upgrades:
OCP upgrades
Operator upgrades (as this is failing every release for different reasons)
Understand clearly the upgrade paths of RHOCP mainly w.r.t our usage and context of OCP releases and upgrade cycles we use in NM
Security Hardening of RHOCP Operators OCPV etc.
Advance Storage Technologies such as LVM ISCSI Multipath SAN & NAS Red Hat CEPH Storage (ODF)
Advance OCP Networking: Bonding Bridging Switching VLAN Configuration OVN OVS NAD NNCP Multus secondary network etc.
Disaster Recovery solution using OCP
Kernel and Performance tuning: Memory I/O tuning queue depths tuning boosting storage IOPS by tuning at RHCOS level OCP level etc.
Knowledge of Middleware services on OCP like Observability stack (monitoring auditing and logging) Service Mesh Secret Management (Vault) etc.
Backup and Restore of OCP and its workload
Consultant must be handson lab environment good at Root cause analysis and has advance troubleshooting capabilities
Consultant can have excellent support internal inside Red Hat Engineering team to get our support tickets and troubleshooting moving
Consultant is having Red Hat Certification in key areas of RHOCP (Deployment Configuration Administration Workload onboarding OCPV etc.)
Consultant helps us in prototyping and identifying appropriate solutions to achieve system requirements for OpenShift platform
Consultant understands our product requirements and helps in dimensioning and defining deployment architecture
Consultant can suggest improvements for the platform deployment and configuration on a continuous basis
Consultant can support us in debugging and resolving issues from field and internal verification rounds
Preferred Skills:
Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins Tekton)
Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus Grafana)
Relevant certifications (RHCE Red Hat OpenShift Specialist) preferred
Education:
Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field
Red Hat certifications are a plus
Behavioral Competency:
Have good attention to detail and accuracy.
Be able to engage with customers and to identify their true needs (beyond problems presented); managing expectations.
Proactive and selfmanaging: able to initiate and plan new work and carry on job duties and meet timeframes without direct supervision.
Willing to approach undefined problems with innovation creativity and adaptability.
rhocp commissioning and deployment,kubernetes,disaster recovery,red hat,cd,root cause analysis,middleware services on ocp (observability stack, service mesh, secret management),advanced storage technologies (lvm, iscsi, multipath, san, nas, red hat ceph storage),backup and restore of ocp,oracle certification program (ocp),red hat certifications,monitoring tools (prometheus, grafana),troubleshooting,kernel and performance tuning,security hardening,openshift,advanced ocp networking (bonding, bridging, switching, vlan configuration, ovn, ovs, nad, nncp, multus),ci/cd tools (jenkins, tekton),security,ocp upgrades,virtualization technologies,ci,jenkins