Cloud Engineer( OpenShift)

Location – Chennai

Work Mode – Work from Offic

Rotational Shift timings – 6:30 am to 3:30 pm , 1:30p.m to 10:30p.m, 5:30 om to 2:30 am

CTC Max – 15-16LPA

Exp – 6+years (relevant Exp – 4+years)

Role Purpose

We are seeking an AWS Cloud Infra & L2 DevOps Engineer to support our project by monitoring, maintaining, and ensuring the availability of applications hosted on OpenShift. The role involves proactive monitoring of nodes and pods, handling alerts, and taking preventive and corrective actions to ensure high availability and operational stability in a 24/7 environment.

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage Red Hat OpenShift on AWS (ROSA) clusters

Perform cluster lifecycle management including installation, upgrades, patching, and scaling

Integrate OpenShift with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ELB/ALB, IAM, S3, RDS, and Route 53

Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or Tekton

Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and/or CloudFormation

Manage container images, registries, and image security scanning

Implement security best practices including IAM roles, OpenShift RBAC, network policies, secrets management

Monitor and troubleshoot clusters and applications using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and EFK/ELK

Support application teams with microservices deployments, Helm charts, and Operators

Handle incident management, root cause analysis, and production support

Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies on AWS

Ensure health and availability of nodes, pods, and clusters

Proactively monitor system alerts and take precautionary actions to prevent incidents

Support 24/7 operations, including shift-based.

Ensure compliance with security, operational, and organizational standards

Required Skills & Experience

Core Skills

Strong knowledge of AWS Cloud Services

EC2, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Auto Scaling

S3, RDS/DynamoDB (basic)

Solid understanding of Kubernetes internals and container orchestration

Experience with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Tekton

Expertise in any of the scripting knowledge (Shell, Bash, Python.,)

Hands-on experience with application and infrastructure monitoring

Working knowledge of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change Management)

Understanding of networking concepts: VPC, subnets, security groups, DNS, SSL/TLS

Tools & Technologies

Ansible

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Splunk

Git

ServiceNow