About this DevOps PaaS - Sr. Technology Engineer role at Synechron
Job Title: Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer / OpenShift Administrator
Experience: 8+ Years
Location: BLR GTP
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift administration, cloud migration, automation, and infrastructure management. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience managing large-scale OpenShift clusters, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and driving DevOps/GitOps practices in enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Install, configure, automate, and manage large-scale Red Hat OpenShift Clusters.
- Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
- Lead and support application migrations to cloud platforms.
- Implement and maintain GitOps-driven configuration management and deployment processes.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize OpenShift platform performance, availability, and security.
- Work closely with development, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure platform stability and scalability.
- Implement high availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical services.
- Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift virtualization (KubeVirt).
Required Skills & Expertise
- Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift Administration.
- Expertise in Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with cloud migration and container platform operations.
- Good understanding of REST/SOAP APIs, including developing API consumers and publishers.
- Strong knowledge of infrastructure concepts and enterprise platform architecture.
- Understanding of OpenShift Virtualization (KubeVirt).
- Expertise in DNS concepts:
- Authoritative & Non-Authoritative DNS
- Dynamic DNS & BIND DNS
- DNS Forwarders
- Strong understanding of SSL/TLS communications, including:
- SSL Handshake
- Cipher Suites
- Encryption Algorithms
- Experience with Active Directory administration, Security OUs, and Group Policies.
- Knowledge of Certificates Management:
- SAN Certificates
- Client Authentication
- Keystores
- Mutual SSL (mTLS)
- Experience managing Load Balancers, Firewalls, and Site Selectors.
- Hands-on experience with Vault solutions such as CyberArk and HashiCorp Vault.
- Strong understanding of High Availability (HA) and resilient infrastructure design.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in enterprise-scale Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes certifications are highly desirable.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Mandatory Skills: OpenShift Administration, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, GitOps, Cloud Migration, Kubernetes/OpenShift, DNS, SSL/TLS, Active Directory, Vault (CyberArk/HashiCorp), High Availability.
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
