L4 SME – Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Admin

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Role Summary

We are seeking a Senior-Level SME (L4) in Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise Administration with deep, hands-on expertise in bare metal OpenShift deployments. The SME will play a key role in managing and stabilizing Telco-grade workloads for a global Tier-1 telecommunications provider, ensuring platform resilience, lifecycle governance, and continuous integration across critical services.

Key Responsibilities

Act as the OpenShift Bare Metal Admin SME supporting complex Telco workloads hosted on private cloud infrastructure.

Lead end-to-end deployment, scaling, and lifecycle operations of Red Hat OpenShift on bare metal environments.

Own upgrade readiness and rollback strategies, working closely with OEM vendors for platform bug RCA and patch governance.

Enable monitoring, alerting, compliance enforcement, and automation for large-scale cluster environments.

Collaborate with network, security, and architecture teams to ensure platform alignment with Telco service and regulatory requirements.

Ensure integration with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, observability frameworks (Prometheus/Grafana), and ITSM tools.

Drive operational maturity through SOP creation, audit compliance, RCA publishing, and incident retrospectives.

Mentor junior engineers and review configurations impacting production-grade OpenShift clusters.

Required Skills

8+ years of direct experience managing Red Hat OpenShift v4.x on bare metal.

Strong expertise in Kubernetes, SDN, CNI plugins, CoreOS, and container runtimes (CRI-O/containerd).

Experience with BIOS provisioning, PXE boot environments, and bare metal cluster node onboarding.

Familiarity with Telco Cloud principles, especially NFV/CNF workloads.

Proficiency in RHEL administration, Ansible automation, Terraform (optional), and compliance remediation.

Understanding of storage backends (Ceph preferred), NTP/DNS/syslog integration, and cluster certificate renewal processes.

Working knowledge of Red Hat Satellite, Quay, and multi-tenant OpenShift workloads.

Hands-on with security features like SELinux, SCCs, RBAC, and namespace isolation.

Preferred Certifications

Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) – Highly Preferred

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) – Bonus