Job Specifications
Role: Senior OpenShift Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior OpenShift Engineer with deep expertise in enterprise Kubernetes/OpenShift platform engineering. This contractor will play a key role in scaling, securing, and optimizing our OpenShift environment to support business critical applications.
Key Accountabilities:
Design, implement, upgrade, and maintain highly available OpenShift clusters (multi cluster, multi AZ, on prem)
Build and standardize best practice patterns for application onboarding, containerization, and deployment on OpenShift
Develop, maintain, and harden certified container base images
Partner with application and architecture teams to guide design decisions for container native workloads
Define and implement operational runbooks, monitoring, logging, and alerting for platform reliability
Manage and optimize enterprise container registries, image lifecycle, and image scanning workflows
Develop automation for cluster operations (installation, patching, upgrades, scaling)
Lead platform security implementation: SCC/PSP equivalents, RBAC, IAM integration, registry security, TLS/cert management
Integrate DevSecOps tooling, automated governance, and supply chain security into CI/CD workflows
Educate and mentor teams on container practices, OpenShift usage, cloud native architecture, and DevOps tools
Provide L3 escalation support for complex platform, networking, and application deployment issues
Advanced Technical Skills:
Deep expertise with OpenShift 4.x features, including Operators, MachineConfigs, OVN Kubernetes CNI, and cluster autoscaling, security, networking, RBAC, monitoring, and cluster services
Kubernetes mastery (API, controllers, CRDs, networking, storage classes, multi cluster management)
Strong understanding of OpenShift networking (Service Mesh, Routes/Ingress, OVN/Kubernetes CNI, NetworkPolicies)
Experience with Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) and multi cluster governance
CI/CD pipeline expertise (ArgoCD, ADO, Jira, Artifactory, Ansible, Github Actions)
Strong DevSecOps experience: image signing, image scanning, supply chain security, secrets management
Security-first mindset: SCCs, RBAC, IAM/OAuth integration, TLS/certificate management
Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps)
Strong Linux (RHEL) engineering background, system troubleshooting, OS patching, and performance tuning
Scripting proficiency (Shell, Python, PowerShell)
Understanding of virtualization and VM sizing considerations for OpenShift deployments
Soft Skills & Leadership Competencies
Strong communication skills for cross team collaboration
Ability to lead technical discussions and guide teams through architectural and design choices
Capable of simplifying complex technical concepts for non technical stakeholders
High sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability
Exceptional problem solving skills and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities
Collaborative mindset with the ability to mentor, influence, and uplift engineering practices across teams
Adaptability in fast moving environments, especially where upgrading, securing, and scaling platforms is time sensitive
Qualifications:
7+ years hands on experience with enterprise Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift (on prem or cloud)
10+ years with Linux/Unix administration and performance tuning
Strong expertise with container technologies (Docker, Podman, CRI O)
Demonstrated experience automating platform operations and driving CI/CD maturity
Experience implementing IAC frameworks and GitOps workflows
Strong documentation and communication skills
Ability to balance strategic engineering with hands on operational execution
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