Openshift Developer

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and manage application stacks on Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms.
• Support end-to-end containerized application deployment across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Create and maintain deployment manifests, Helm charts, templates, ConfigMaps, Secrets, routes, services, and persistent volume configurations.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or equivalent tools for automated build, deployment, promotion, and rollback.
• Coordinate release deployments, environment promotions, application validations, and post-deployment checks.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, pod issues, image pull errors, networking issues, storage issues, pipeline failures, and application runtime errors.
• Work with developers and operations teams to onboard applications to OpenShift and improve deployment reliability.
• Automate repetitive deployment and operational activities using Shell, Bash, Python, or Ansible.
• Monitor application health, logs, resource utilization, and platform events to support incident resolution and service availability.
• Maintain deployment runbooks, SOPs, configuration documents, release notes, and operational handover documents.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology.
• 5–8 years of relevant experience in OpenShift, Kubernetes, DevOps, release engineering, or application deployment support.
• Strong hands-on experience in deploying and supporting application stacks on Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of OpenShift resources including projects/namespaces, pods, deployments, services, routes, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVCs, and RBAC.
• Experience with container images, image registries, build configurations, deployment configurations, and application rollout strategies.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Tekton, or similar platforms.
• Working knowledge of Git, branching strategies, release tagging, artifact promotion, and deployment governance.
• Experience in Linux administration, shell scripting, networking basics, DNS, certificates, and application connectivity troubleshooting.
• Ability to analyze logs, events, pipeline output, pod status, resource limits, and application errors to resolve deployment issues.
• Strong communication, documentation, coordination, and problem-solving skills in a multi-team delivery environment.

Good to Have Skills

• Exposure to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or hybrid cloud infrastructure environments.
• Knowledge of Helm, Kustomize, Argo CD, OpenShift GitOps, or OpenShift Pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code or automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK, or OpenShift monitoring stack.
• Awareness of container security practices, image scanning, secrets management, RBAC, and security context constraints.
• Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, DevOps, or cloud certifications will be an added advantage.