Red Hat OpenShift Platform Administrator (Bare-Metal & Production)

We have an urgent requirement for Red Hat OpenShift Platform Administrator (Bare-Metal & Production) is required for one of our banking clients in Oman

Strong experience in Production administration of Red Hat OpenShift 4.x on bare-metal Must

Strong experience on Linux (RHEL/RHCOS) + Node-Level Troubleshooting Must

Strong experience OpenShift networking (OVN-K, Ingress, LoadBalancers---Must

Strong experience on ODF / Ceph storage in production –Must

Strong experience on OpenShift security, RBAC, and governance implementation is MUST

Main Role(Accountability)

We are seeking an experienced Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) System Administrator to manage, operate, secure, and optimize enterprise-grade OpenShift 4.x clusters deployed on bare-metal infrastructure.

The role involves full ownership of Day-0, Day-1, and Day-2 operations, including installation, upgrades, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting, automation, and platform reliability. The administrator will support mission-critical production environments and provide L2/L3 infrastructure support to multiple projects.

This position requires deep expertise in OpenShift, Linux, Kubernetes, networking, storage, security, and observability, along with the ability to work under pressure in regulated, high-availability environments.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Administration (Day-to-Day Operations)
Administer and operate Red Hat OpenShift 4.x on bare-metal
Monitor cluster health: nodes, pods, ETCD, operators, resources
Perform capacity planning, tuning, scaling, cordon/drain operations
Manage Master, Worker, Infra nodes, storage and networking components
Onboard and support applications on OpenShift
Provide L2/L3 technical support to projects and operations teams
Upgrades, Patching & Lifecycle Management
Execute minor and major OpenShift upgrades
Perform RHCOS OS patching
Upgrade cluster operators, ingress, registry, and storage components
Manage API and Ingress certificates
Validate upgrades in test environments before production rollout
Networking (OpenShift & Bare-Metal)
Manage OpenShift networking: OVN-Kubernetes, Multus, SR-IOV
Troubleshoot Routes, Ingress, LoadBalancers, DNS, VIP issues
Work with VLANs, MTU, BGP, HAProxy, MetalLB
Coordinate with network and firewall teams for internal/external access
Storage Management
Manage and troubleshoot ODF / Ceph storage
Handle PVC/PV provisioning, StorageClasses, quotas
Resolve persistent storage issues for stateful workloads
Security, Compliance & Governance
Implement Pod Security Standards, NetworkPolicies, Zero-Trust
Enforce CIS benchmarks and Red Hat security baselines
Integrate image scanning tools (ACS, Trivy, Clair)
Manage RBAC, secrets, vaults, SSO/IAM
Maintain audit logs, compliance reports, and policy enforcement
Monitoring, Logging & Observability
Configure and maintain Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana
Manage logging stacks (EFK / ELK / Loki)
Create alerts, dashboards, and analyze performance trends
Conduct periodic capacity and reliability assessments
Backup, Restore & Disaster Recovery
Manage ETCD backups, snapshots, and restore testing
Implement application backup using OADP / Velero
Participate in DR planning, drills, and execution
CI/CD & DevOps Integration
Support Tekton pipelines
Implement GitOps using ArgoCD / Flux
Manage image registries (Quay / internal registry)
Ensure pipeline security, tagging, and automation
Documentation & Governance
Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, architecture diagrams
Maintain change records as per ITIL processes
Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for major incidents
Participate in governance meetings and weekly status reporting

Skills: red hat,openshift,bare metal

Red Hat OpenShift Platform Administrator (Bare-Metal & Production)

Key Skills

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