Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Senior OpenShift Platform Engineer to support and expand its enterprise container platform environment. This engineer will be responsible for building, automating, and supporting OpenShift-based infrastructure, enabling application teams through GitOps, CI/CD automation, service mesh technologies, and platform engineering best practices.

This role is ideal for an engineer with deep hands-on experience in Helm, ArgoCD, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Linux, and GitOps workflows who enjoys building scalable platform solutions and enabling application deployment at enterprise scale.

The team is heavily invested in OpenShift and container platform modernization, making this a highly technical engineering role rather than a traditional cloud administration position., Administer and support OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) environments

Design, build, and maintain complex Helm charts used for platform and application deployments

Implement and support GitOps deployment workflows using ArgoCD

Configure and manage OpenShift operators, platform services, networking, and application onboarding

Support Kubernetes-based containerized workloads and platform operations

Develop automation solutions using Bash and infrastructure scripting

Collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to improve deployment reliability and operational efficiency

Participate in platform upgrades, service mesh implementations, and environment modernization initiatives

Troubleshoot production issues across Kubernetes, OpenShift, GitOps, and container environments

Contribute to CI/CD pipeline improvements and platform automation efforts

OpenShift / Kubernetes

5+ years of Kubernetes platform experience

3+ years of OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and/or Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) experience

Experience supporting enterprise container platform environments

Helm (Highest Priority)

Strong hands-on experience developing, modifying, and maintaining Helm charts

Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes resources using Helm

Ability to troubleshoot and support complex Helm-based deployments

GitOps / CI-CD

Hands-on experience with ArgoCD

Experience supporting GitOps deployment methodologies

Experience with GitLab, Git CLI, or similar source control platforms

Linux & Automation

Strong Linux administration background

Experience creating and maintaining Bash scripts

Experience troubleshooting containerized environments from the command line

Container Technologies

Strong Docker and Kubernetes experience

Experience supporting containerized applications in production environments Istio service mesh experience

OpenShift Service Mesh experience

Experience supporting service mesh upgrades or migrations

Red Hat ecosystem experience

Kubernetes operator development or administration

CI/CD platform engineering experience

Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background

Prometheus and Grafana monitoring experience

Dynatrace or AppDynamics experience