Company Overview
VAM Systems is a Business Consulting, Technology Solutions and Professional Services organization working with major organizations in USA, UAE, Bahrain, India, Singapore and Australia. Delivers leading edge information and communication technology based business solutions to enable our clients to continuously stay ahead and achieve sustainable profit and consistent growth by leveraging new channels of customer engagement and service delivery as well as better and efficient employment of resources and processes with measurable parameters for performance. While our local presence assists us in better understanding of the local needs, our global presence assist us to offer solutions strengthened by experience in leading markets globally.
Job Description
We are currently looking OpenShift Platform Administrator for our Qatar operations with the following terms & conditions.
Qualifications, Experience
Required Qualifications:
- BS degree in Computer Science. Similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- Certified Redhat Openshift Administrator
Optional Qualification:
- Any IT/Cloud Architect Certification
Required Experience:
- Minimum 6 years of proven work experience as a Linux Engineer/Administrator.
- Minimum 3+ years of experience on Containerization technologies like Openshift, Kubernetes.
- Minimum 4 years of proven work experience of large-scale Spring Boot/Java projects, experience with REST/GRPC, RESTful API.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Expertise on Helm charts, Kubernetes Operator, Kustomize
- Expertise with Source Code management (SCM) Tools such as Git
- Automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools
- Basic Knowledge on Virtualization Infrastructure.
- Expert in Scripting python, YAML, shell etc.
- Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles.
- Expertise on Dockers, Podman and tools supporting containers.
- Experience scoping, resourcing, managing and overcoming obstacles in software development projects.
- Experience with TCP/IP & general networking principles.
- Linux Administration with hands on experience.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with platform observability and logging tools (i.e. Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics, Grafana, etc.)
- IT management tools such as BMC Remedy, Service now etc.
- Nice to have Java framework and Pipelines troubleshooting
Key Accountabilities/Responsibilites
Essential Functions:
- Deployment and operation of the container infrastructure based on Red Hat OpenShift/Kubernetes on premise.
- Expertise in Air Gap Environments to handle Mirror registry (oc-mirror), Platform and Operator Upgrades.
- Installing and manage the container platform ecosystem (Master / Worker Nodes).
- Mange Entire OpenShift components like pods, network, storage and security components with standard hardening guidelines
- Deploying and managing, automation of containerized applications on the platform.
- Configure and administration of OpenShift and Kubernetes Clusters.
- Manage users, Policies and control access on resources.
- Observability, Monitoring and maintaining the platform, including the containers and clusters.
- Maintain, configure and monitor containers using Infrastructure as Code principles in Development, Test, and Live environments
- Troubleshooting and resolving issues that arise on the platform.
- Experience with Kubernetes management, backup and recovery, and deployment tools (i.e., Kasten, Portworx, DELL PPDM ArgoCD, etc.)
- CSI/ ODF (OpenShift Data Foundation) Setup and Implementation.
- Experience with application development using containers, leveraging API and CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Jenkins, Tekton, etc.).
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