Sr. DevOps Engineer - (OpenShift & Kubernetes)

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in OpenShift, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, GitHub Actions, Helm, ArgoCD, and Jenkins.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting CI/CD pipelines and containerized application platforms across enterprise technology environments. The role involves working with both in-house microservices and vendor-based microservices, ensuring reliable, scalable, secure, and efficient application delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications and microservices.
• Work extensively with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes environments for application deployment, configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Develop and automate CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions.
• Build and manage deployment workflows using ArgoCD and GitOps practices.
• Use Helm for Kubernetes/OpenShift application packaging, configuration, and deployments.
• Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins pipelines and automation workflows.
• Use OpenShift oc commands extensively for application deployment, troubleshooting, configuration, monitoring, and pipeline automation.
• Develop and maintain pipeline automation for both in-house microservices and vendor-based microservices.
• Automate build, deployment, testing, and release processes across different environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, pipeline issues, container problems, and platform-related incidents.
• Work closely with software engineering, application, QA, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth application delivery.
• Implement and maintain DevOps best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Support continuous improvement of deployment processes, automation, reliability, and platform efficiency.
• Ensure consistent and reliable application deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Participate in production support, incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and technical troubleshooting.

Required Technical Skills

OpenShift & Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of containerized application deployment and orchestration.
• Deep practical knowledge of OpenShift oc commands.
• Experience troubleshooting pods, deployments, services, routes, configurations, and application workloads.

CI/CD & Automation

• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation.
• Strong experience with Jenkins and Jenkins pipeline development.
• Ability to automate build, deployment, testing, and release processes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD best practices and DevOps lifecycle.

Helm & ArgoCD

• Strong hands-on experience with Helm charts and Helm-based deployments.
• Strong experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment practices.
• Experience managing application configuration and deployments across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.

Microservices

• Experience supporting and deploying microservices architectures.
• Ability to work with both in-house developed microservices and vendor-based microservices.
• Strong understanding of application deployment dependencies, configurations, integrations, and release management.

Required Experience

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or related technology engineering roles.
• Strong enterprise experience working with OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Helm, and ArgoCD.
• Strong practical experience using OpenShift oc commands for administration, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Experience working with enterprise-scale microservices environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Preferred / Nice to Have

• Experience working in banking or other highly regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies and container platforms.
• Exposure to GitOps and infrastructure automation practices.
• Experience supporting high-availability and production-critical applications.
• Familiarity with security, governance, and enterprise DevOps standards.

Key Competencies

• Strong ownership and accountability for platform and deployment reliability.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively with application development, infrastructure, QA, security, architecture, and vendor teams.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced enterprise environments.
• Strong focus on automation, reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement.