System Engineer Openshift - Consultant

• Mission 
• Design, deploy, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift platforms
• Adapt and optimize OpenShift clusters (filesystem management, access control, quotas, policies) on underlying Unix/Linux systems. 
• Install, migrate, and operate Unix/Linux environments according to our standards and processes. 
• Plan and manage system storage and related capacity (including persistence of OpenShift volumes). 
• Ensure security, resilience, and compliance across environments. 
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Challenges

• Adapt to heterogeneous environments (AIX/Solaris/RHEL, virtualization) and existing processes.
• Align Unix/Linux operations practices with container, Kubernetes, and OpenShift paradigms.
• Support application migrations to OpenShift with minimal impact, while meeting financial-sector security requirements.

• Main responsibilities 

  General competencies

• Knowledge of major Unix/Linux distributions: IBM AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Solaris. 

• Proven experience deploying and operating OpenShift or Kubernetes in production.

• Understanding of storage and network technologies: memory, disk arrays, NAS/SAN, networking (TCP/IP, VLAN, load balancing).
• Understanding of database concepts: maintenance, recovery, failover, high availability.
• Understanding of routine maintenance, recovery, and handling failover of a Database

• Familiarity with at least one enterprise backup solution (e.g., NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam).

  Specific competencies

• Install, configure, and maintain Red Hat OpenShift clusters (IPI/UPI, bare metal/virtualized/cloud).
• Mastery of Kubernetes/OpenShift concepts: projects, routes, services, deployments, statefulsets, operators, CRD, RBAC, SCC, NetworkPolicy.
• OpenShift lifecycle management: controlled upgrades, patches, channels, image mirroring, oc CLI.
• Security and compliance:
• Configuration of RBAC, SCC, PSa/PSP equivalents, secrets, encryption.
• OIDC/SAML integration with IdPs (e.g., Keycloak, Azure AD).
• Policies and admission control (Gatekeeper/OPA), auditing, hardening.
• OpenShift networking:
• CNI (OpenShiftSDN/OVNK), ingress/egress, routes, load balancers, service mesh (Istio/Service Mesh).
• Storage and persistence:
• Provisioning PersistentVolume/PersistentVolumeClaim, StorageClasses, CSI drivers, NAS/SAN integration (NFS, Ceph, …).
• Observability:
• Logging and metrics (Cluster Logging, Loki/EFK, Prometheus/Grafana), alerting, SIEM integration.
• CI/CD and images:
• BuildConfigs/ImageStreams, registry management (Quay/Artifactory), image policies.
• Operations and SRE:
• Cluster and application backup/restore (Velero, etcd backup).
• Capacity planning, autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler), performance tuning.

• Troubleshooting: pods, nodes, networking, storage, scheduling.

  Primary Responsibilities

• Install and configure OpenShift components  and RHEL and Unix OSes to host workloads.
• Deploy, maintain, and upgrade OpenShift clusters and their operators.
• Apply and test OS and platform patches; manage compliance and hardening.
• Develop and implement security and management procedures (OS and OpenShift).
• Update standard policies based on environmental changes and audit findings.
• Improve system and cluster performance; propose optimization initiatives.
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve system and platform incidents (L2/L3).
• Plan, coordinate, and execute installation, testing, and maintenance of system software and OpenShift components.
• Lead projects within approved timelines, including migrations to OpenShift and workload rationalization.
• Analyze software and hardware environments to detect defects and risks; propose remediations.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation: architecture, operator procedures, component inventory, runbooks.
• Implement backup and recovery strategies (OS, etcd, applications) and validate their effectiveness.
• Implement and test disaster recovery and business continuity (DR/BCP) procedures for OS and OpenShift.

• Perform performance maintenance routines to ensure continuous availability.

• Your Profile
• Years of experience: 3–7.

• Financial sector: preferred.

• Required experience:
• Minimum 3 years as Unix/Linux systems administrator.
•  Proven experience deploying and operating OpenShift or Kubernetes in production.
• Required knowledge:
• OS: RHEL, OpenShift.
• Storage, memory, disk arrays, NAS/SAN, networking (DNS, TLS, firewalling)

• Others
  • Swiss Residence

Core Competencies : Adherence to the company’s values: Dedication, Conviction, Agility and Responsibility - Compliance with regulations and internal directives