OpenShift Administrator

City: Basel

State/Province: Basel Stadt

Posting Start Date: 3/9/26

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

Key Roles and responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and maintain large-scale OpenShift clusters.
• Manage cluster core components: API server, etc scheduler, controllers, MCO, ingress, registry, SDN/OVN-Kubernetes.
• Lead zero-downtime upgrades, multi-phase version transitions, and rollout/rollback strategies.
• Design cluster capacity models, resource plans, HA/DR topology, infra/worker segmentation.
• Manage Subscription channels, InstallPlans, CSV transitions, CRDs, Catalog Sources and operator dependencies.
• Troubleshoot operator failures, operand issues, and API deprecations.
• Guide developers on operator usage patterns and GitOps workflows
• Function as the highest technical escalation for cluster, node, networking, storage, registry, ingress, and workload issues.
• Deliver RCA, problem prevention plans, and stability recommendations.
• Manage CSI drivers, snapshotting, cloning, PV/PVC design, and storage topology.
• Implement and manage Velero/OADP backup and application-level restore workflows.
• Define DR strategy, namespace recovery, cluster rebuild workflows.
• Implement CIS benchmarks, RBAC/SCC policies, audit logs, TLS/hardening configurations
• Manage authentication integrations (AD/LDAP/OAuth).
• Ensure compliance with enterprise governance, patching standards, image policies, and remediation vulnerability.
• Automate infra operations using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, and Bash/Python scripting.
• Integrate OpenShift with CI/CD pipelines (GitOps, Jenkins, Tekton, Argo CD).
• Build reusable automation frameworks for cluster provisioning and operational workflows.
• Configure and optimize Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Loki/EFK stack.
• Build actionable dashboards, alert rules, and log routing pipelines.
• Lead performance tuning and SLO/SLI management.
• Mentor L1/L2 support teams and provide KT, SOPs, and runbooks.
• Lead war-rooms, incident bridges, and cross-team collaboration (Network, Security, VMware, Storage).
• Represent the platform team in architecture and customer-facing discussions.

• Strong hands-on Linux (RHEL/SUSE/Oracle Linux) admin knowledge.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals and OpenShift 3.x/4.x architecture.
• Experience with VMware vSphere (HA/DRS/Networking) and container registries.
• Expertise in:

• Strong troubleshooting ability using oc/kubectl, journald, tcpdump, strace, Wireshark, systemd tools.
• Solid grasp of Git, DevOps, automation and infra-as-code workflows.Strong Linux/RHCOS experience and working knowledge of systemd, SELinux, and OS hardening.
• Expertise with oc, kubectl, YAML, RBAC, quotas, projects, and Operators.
• VMware vSphere operational experience:
• Cluster HA/DRS
• VM placement and sizing
• Datastore troubleshooting
• Storage fundamentals: CSI, ONTAP/Trident, NFS, iSCSI, PV/PVC lifecycle.
• Networking fundamentals: SDN, routing, MTU, ingress controllers, load balancers.
• Backup & restore fundamentals (Velero/PowerProtect).
• Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana).
• Develop and maintain runbooks, SOP, and automation scripts and quarterly review with version history.
• Collaboration with engineers for issue escalation and resolution.
• Experience working with Cross-functional teams (Cloud, Security, Network, Developers Firewall teams)
• Ability to handle on-call rotation and work in a 24*7 support env.
• Understanding ITSM workflows to handle P4, P3, P2, P1 SLA.
• Collaborate with VMware, Network, Storage, Security, and Application teams.
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and automation workflows.
• Experience with Bash/Shell scripting.

• Good exposure in various ticketing and monitoring tools
• Vendor coordination
• Good to have Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
• Terraform/Ansible, CKA - Certified Kubernetes Administration certifications.

• Ability to own complex technical problems end-to-end.
• Strong communication with ability to articulate issues to senior stakeholders.
• Experience working with global customers in high-pressure environments.
• Ability to lead, mentor, and influence without authority

• Regular All-hands Meetings
• Referral Program
• Comprehensive Learning Offerings
• Company pension plan
• Highly international, high-Performance culture
• Diversity is in our DNA
• Women network