OPENSHIFT SRE - Hybrid

The OpenShift SRE will play a key role in developing automation software to provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal our client's OpenShift clusters. This person will also take part in incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts while leading engineering initiatives. By balancing development and operations work, the OpenShift SRE will contribute directly to our client's success in the rapidly growing Kubernetes-as-a-Service (KaaS) market.




Advantages
What You Need To Succeed:

Education:

4-year degree (preferably in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar).

Experience:

10 + years of experience in IT
3+ years hands-on experience in building, designing, and maintaining OpenShift based environments and applications.
4+ years of hands-on technical working experience in the use of configuration management and automation tool



Responsibilities
About The Role:


Install, configure, and maintain OpenShift clusters.
Improve OpenShift infrastructure (while using Network Policies/quotas/readiness probes/RBAC/GitOps)
Troubleshoot OpenShift cluster issues
Work on initiatives that target OpenShift as their platform, building and delivering compliant OpenShift solutions.
Collaborate with Team Lead, Platforms to coordinate project deliverables to convey infrastructure requirements, plan, and schedule deployment of tasks and resolve any issues that impact the deployment of the Application delivery systems.
Be responsible for the success of technical project delivery/work product.
Provide configuration and support in scaling and managing OpenShift services.
Provide ongoing support of OpenShift environments and infrastructure related issues.
Function as a Subject Matter Expert for OpenShift
Install and upgrade OpenShift
Use a Git-based workflows (Argo CD, Ansible, GitLab)
Install and configure various OLM operators (Logging, ACS, Elasticsearch, Portworx, Crunchy, Compliance and others
Design technical infrastructure needed to support the newly upgraded system and coordinate its installation, and integration.
Prepare and help team in all phases of analysis and design for applications, system, hardware, and programming activities; should have good understanding of project architecture.
Drive significant technology initiatives across all aspects of the development (design -> deploy -> support)
Use project’s best practices and coding standards.
Review and Perform software updates, peer code reviews, testing, and Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) analysis; respond to security threats.
Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues; propose and implement more resilient resolutions.
Design and write automation software to provision, upgrade, monitor, and heal OpenShift clusters.
Provide ongoing support of OpenShift production and non-production environments.

Qualifications
Skill Requirements:

Expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes and Red Hat Virtualization
Experience in DevOps tooling and processes
Knowledge of Pure Storage and Crunchy Data
Expertise in most of the following: Ansible, git, Docker, Kubernetes, shell scripting
Expertise in delivering hosted cloud/private cloud services, with Kubernetes and with containers on Linux.
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot systems issues quickly and accurately.
Experience with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tooling, monitoring and change management.
Knowledge of cloud and private cloud architecture and design patterns
Experience in Red Hat Linux administration
Familiar with Agile methodologies, Test Driven Development
Excellent communication and people skills.
An analytical person with a keen eye for detail
Able to engage yourself in a project and enjoy the challenges and processes involved.
Flexible, eager, ambitious, and adaptable to change.
Strong knowledge of software development life cycle
Passion for technology and modernization

Summary
What’s In It For You

Our client, we define our success by what we help others achieve. We were created to support our clients and, through our products, services, and solutions, protect and strengthen their brands. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program that includes a competitive compensation package, flexible benefits and time away options, retirement and savings plans and a commitment to your overall health and well-being through our myWell-being program.
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
Opportunities to do challenging work and progressively take on greater accountabilities for growth

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.