Red hat Openshift enterprise admin

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

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