OpenShift Administrator
City: Kochi
State/Province: Kerala
Posting Start Date: 3/6/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients' most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description:
Job Description
Role Purpose
We're looking for an engineer with strong hands-on experience in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes to build, operate, and secure container platforms at scale. The role involves day-2 operations, automation (GitOps/Ansible), platform upgrades, and troubleshooting complex production issues across networking, security, storage, and CI/CD. Experience with enterprise workloads on OpenShift (Operators, Routes, SCC, ImageStreams) is essential.
Important: OpenShift Administrator. Who has experience with installation and configuration of below optional software.
Experience: 8 Years
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Operations
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o Install, upgrade, and operate OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters (on-prem and/or cloud-AWS/Azure/GCP).
o Manage cluster resources: Projects/Namespaces, Nodes, MachineSets, Operators/OLM, SCC, NetworkPolicies, Routes/Ingress, StorageClasses/PVCs.
o Maintain cluster reliability: capacity planning, performance tuning, backup/DR, multi-AZ/HA, patching.
Security & Compliance
o Implement RBAC, Pod Security (PSA/PSS), NetworkPolicies (CNI), Secrets management (KMS/HashiCorp Vault), image signing/scanning (Quay/Trivy/ACS).
o Enforce compliance guardrails via policies (e.g., Gatekeeper/OPA/Kyverno) and SCC best practices on OpenShift.
Automation & GitOps
o Build declarative platforms using Argo CD or Flux, Helm/Kustomize, Ansible for Day-2 ops.
o Create reusable modules/playbooks for provisioning, patching, and app deployments.
CI/CD & Build
o Integrate with Jenkins/GitLab CI/GitHub Actions; manage BuildConfigs/ImageStreams, Tekton pipelines on OpenShift.
o Optimize container build workflows (Docker/Buildah/Podman) and artifact management (Quay/Artifactory).
• Observability & SRE
o Set up Prometheus/Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki/EFK; tune SLO/SLIs and actionable alerts.
o Troubleshoot with oc/kubectl, Events, Logs, Metrics, insights-operator, and node-level tools.
Networking & Service Delivery
o Configure Ingress/Routes, L7 controllers, TLS termination, mTLS (service mesh/Istio/ASM optional).
o Handle DNS, certificates, load balancers, firewall openings, and egress controls.
Collaboration & Support
o Partner with app teams to containerize and operate workloads, perform production incident response and RCA.
o Author runbooks, standards, and best practices; mentor engineers.
Optional (IBM Integration focus)
• Operate CP4I components (App Connect, MQ, API Connect) via Operators on OpenShift.
• Deploy/upgrade IBM MQ / ACE containers, manage persistent volumes, secrets (certs/keystores), and route exposure.
• Integrate platform observability with Instana and enterprise SIEM; automate certificate rotation for MQ/ACE/DataPower.
Required Qualifications
• 8 years hands-on with Kubernetes/OpenShift (for Senior: 6-10 ; Lead/Architect: 10 including platform design).
• Strong expertise with:
o OpenShift: oc CLI, Operators/OLM, SCC, Projects, Routes, ImageStreams, BuildConfigs, MachineConfig, Cluster Operators, OAuth/IdP.
o Kubernetes: Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, HPA/VPA, Jobs/CronJobs, ConfigMaps/Secrets, Admission Controllers.
o Networking: CNI (OVN-K, Calico, etc.), Ingress/Routes, L4/L7 load balancing, TLS, DNS, egress policies.
o Storage: CSI drivers, dynamic provisioning, RWX/RWO, snapshots/backup (Velero).
o Security: RBAC, PSP/PSA (or PSS), SCC (OpenShift), image scanning/signing, Vault/KMS, policy engines (OPA/Kyverno).
o Automation: GitOps (Argo CD/Flux), Helm/Kustomize, Ansible, scripting (bash/Python).
o CI/CD: Jenkins/GitLab/Tekton; containers with Docker/Buildah/Podman.
o Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/Loki, Alertmanager; cluster health tuning.
• OS & Platform: RHEL administration, systemd, SELinux, networking basics.
• Proven experience in production incident
Deliver
No Performance Parameter Measure 1 Process No. of cases resolved per day, compliance to process and quality standards, meeting process level SLAs, Pulse score, Customer feedback, NSAT/ ESAT 2 Team Management Productivity, efficiency, absenteeism 3 Capability development Triages completed, Technical Test performance
Mandatory Skills: Redhat OpenShift .
Experience: 5-8 Years .
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
Parental Benefits
Work Flexibility
Office Life and Perks
Vacation and Time Off
Financial and Retirement
Professional Development
Diversity and Inclusion