Red Hat OpenShift Engineer / Specialist

Red Hat OpenShift Engineer / Specialist

Company

Knowtifics Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Position

Red Hat OpenShift Engineer / Lead Engineer

Experience

5–10+ Years (Strong hands-on OpenShift experience mandatory)

Location

Remote – India

Employment Type

Contract / Project-Based

Availability

Immediate / Short Notice Preferred

Role Overview

Knowtifics Technologies is seeking experienced Red Hat OpenShift Engineers involving the design, deployment, configuration and ongoing support of a production-grade.

The ideal candidate must have strong hands-on experience with OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), disconnected installations, OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), cluster networking, security and Day-2 operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, install and configure Red Hat OpenShift 4.x on bare-metal infrastructure using Agent-Based / IPI installation methods.
• Implement restricted-network/disconnected installations, including bastion host and mirror registry configuration.
• Configure and manage OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), persistent storage and OADP backup and recovery.
• Configure cluster networking, including VLANs, LACP, OVN-Kubernetes, MetalLB/BGP, ingress and load balancing.
• Implement RBAC, SCC, identity integration, certificates, security hardening and network policies.
• Configure monitoring, logging, resource quotas and workload isolation.
• Perform cluster health checks, high-availability testing, node-failure recovery, upgrades and troubleshooting.
• Provide L2/L3 operational support, incident management, patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Prepare technical documentation, HLD/LLD, installation guides, operational runbooks and handover documentation.
• Coordinate with architects, network teams, application vendors and customer stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP 4.x) – Advanced administration and troubleshooting.
• Bare-Metal OpenShift Deployment – Compact three-node cluster architecture.
• Disconnected Installation – Agent-Based / IPI, image mirroring and private registries.
• Storage \& Backup – ODF, OADP, persistent volumes and storage recovery.
• Networking – OVN-Kubernetes, VLANs, LACP, MetalLB/BGP, DNS, ingress and load balancing.
• Security – RBAC, SCC, certificates, security hardening and network policies.
• Operations – Cluster monitoring, logging, upgrades, patching, troubleshooting and incident resolution.
• Operating Systems – Strong Linux/RHEL administration experience.

Certification \& Preferred Experience

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280\) – Preferred for Lead and Care Engineer roles.
• Experience delivering production-grade bare-metal OpenShift implementations.
• Experience supporting telecom or enterprise production environments.
• Experience with high-availability architecture, disaster recovery and capacity planning.
• Strong technical documentation and English communication skills.

Work Location

In person