Openshift Administrator

Job Description:-

Product that needs support : Red Hat OpenShift including RHOCP- V

List of Competencies looking for in the RH

1. RHOCP Commissioning and Deployment

a. Good hands-on experience in deployment of RHOCP on BareMetal Servers with external SAN Storage

b. Every release is bringing new issues. E.g. OCP 4.16 bonding is not working. Consultant needs to be on the toe knowing the releases changes w.r.t our usage of RHOCP

c. Up to date with all the OpenShift platform deployment variants and releases

2. RHOCP Upgrades

a. OCP upgrades

b. Operator upgrades (as this is failing every release for different reasons)

c. Understand clearly the upgrade paths of RHOCP mainly w.r.t our usage and context of OCP releases and upgrade cycles we use in NM

3. Security Hardening of RHOCP, Operators, OCP-V etc.

4. Advance Storage Technologies such as LVM, ISCSI, Multipath, SAN & NAS, Red Hat CEPH Storage (ODF)

5. Advance OCP Networking: Bonding, Bridging, Switching, VLAN Configuration, OVN, OVS, NAD, NNCP, Multus secondary network etc.

6. Disaster Recovery solution using OCP

7. Kernel and Performance tuning: Memory, I/O tuning, queue depths tuning, boosting storage IOPS by tuning at RHCOS level, OCP level etc

8. Knowledge of Middleware services on OCP like Observability stack (monitoring, auditing and logging), Service Mesh, Secret Management (Vault) etc.

9. Backup and Restore of OCP and its workload

10. Consultant must be hands-on lab environment, good at Root cause analysis and has advance troubleshooting capabilities

11. Consultant is able to have excellent support internal inside Red Hat Engineering team to get our support tickets and troubleshooting moving

12. Consultant is having Red Hat Certification in key areas of RHOCP (Deployment, Configuration, Administration, Workload onboarding, OCP-V etc)

13. Consultant helps us in prototyping and identifying appropriate solutions to achieve system requirements for OpenShift platform

14. Consultant understands our product requirements and helps in dimensioning and defining deployment architecture

15. Consultant is able to suggest improvements for the platform deployment and configuration on a continuous basis

16. Consultant is able to support us in debugging and resolving issues from field and internal verification rounds