Platform Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Canada
$70 to $110 CAD / hour · Contract
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Job details
- Pay
- $70 to $110 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
- Apply by
- Experience
- 6+ years of experience.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Location: Rotational 4x/week Hybrid, Toronto (fully remote biweekly)
Length: 12 Month Duration + Extension
Rate: 70-110hr
Why open: expected vacancy
We may use artificial intelligence tools to assist with the screening, assessment, or selection of potential applicants for this position.
JOB DESCRIPTION
You will join the OpenShift Platform Engineering team on-premises, assisting in supporting Red Hat OpenShift 4 and 4.14 environments, working in a bare-metal environment, running models, and participating in a migration from IaaC. Expect to assist two other members after hours and participate in daily standups using JIRA.
Key Responsibilities: Actively participate in upgrading OpenShift. Provide suggestions and share knowledge on configuring Red Hat OpenShift and related Open Source and vendor technologies. Assist with projects, planning, architecture designs, installation, configuration, and patching of OpenShift instances. Perform standard system administration tasks such as designing, building, supporting, and troubleshooting OpenShift. Conduct OpenShift performance tuning, optimization, and system hardening. Review company health check and maintenance scripts. Ensure best practices for infrastructure settings. Develop and maintain executive and operational dashboards to visualize progress on success metrics. Participate in escalated support activities for OpenShift-related issues. Document OpenShift architecture, design, and integrated components in internal knowledge repositories. Contribute to developing a Banking security standard for containers. Project (Delivery) Manager Responsibilities: Conduct project kickoff meetings with the client and consultant. Collaborate with the Client Project Manager to determine key objectives. Coordinate Red Hat support/engineering resources as needed. Provide briefings on resource utilization and activity.
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
6+ years of experience.
Proficiency in Ansible automation, including writing and reading playbooks.
Experience with on-prem OpenShift.
Strong Linux administration skills.
Knowledge of IBM Cloud Paks
NICE TO HAVE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Experience with Ansible Platform Tower.
Familiarity with DevOps tooling such as Jenkins and CICS.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Support, upgrade, configure, and troubleshoot on-premises Red Hat OpenShift environments, including performance tuning, system hardening, maintenance, and escalated support. Document platform architecture, contribute to container security standards and operational dashboards, and coordinate project delivery with clients and Red Hat resources.
Requirements
Requires at least six years of experience, strong Linux administration skills, proficiency writing and reading Ansible playbooks, and experience with on-premises OpenShift. Knowledge of IBM Cloud Paks is also required; Ansible Platform Tower, Jenkins, and CICS experience are desirable.
Skills
- Ansible Automation
- On-Premises OpenShift
- Linux Administration
- OpenShift Upgrades
- Bare-Metal Infrastructure
- IBM Cloud Paks
- Ansible Platform Tower
- Jenkins
- CICS
- Performance Tuning
- System Hardening
- Infrastructure Troubleshooting
- Container Security
- Dashboard Development
- Project Coordination
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
Keywords
- Red Hat OpenShift
- OpenShift 4
- OpenShift 4.14
- Ansible
- Ansible Playbooks
- Ansible Platform Tower
- Linux Administration
- IBM Cloud Paks
- Bare-Metal Environment
- Infrastructure As Code
- Jenkins
- CICS
- Open Source Technologies
- System Administration
- Platform Engineering
- Performance Tuning
- System Optimization
- System Hardening
- Infrastructure Settings
- Health Check Scripts
- Maintenance Scripts
- Operational Dashboards
- Container Security
- Banking
- JIRA
- Project Planning
- Architecture Design
- Installation
- Configuration
- Patching