About the Role
We are seeking a highly seasoned Senior Red Hat OpenShift Engineer with extensive experience supporting mission-critical platforms in the financial markets sector. The ideal candidate will bring over 10 years of expertise in enterprise Linux environments, cloud-native solutions, and hybrid infrastructure. This role requires deep technical knowledge, a proven ability to operate in high-pressure, low-latency environments, and the versatility to support both on-premises and cloud-based systems.
Key Responsibilities
- OpenShift & Kubernetes: Architect, deploy, and maintain highly available Red Hat OpenShift clusters for production trading and financial applications.
- Linux Engineering: Provide advanced support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems, including kernel tuning, performance optimization, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Protocols & Infrastructure Services: Configure and troubleshoot authentication protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, SSSD); manage name resolution services (DNS, BIND, CoreDNS); maintain time synchronization across distributed systems (NTP, Chrony, PTP).
- Cloud Expertise: Design and manage workloads in AWS and Azure, with strong knowledge of security, networking, and storage integration. Implement hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to meet enterprise compliance and resilience requirements.
- Enterprise Hardware & Storage: Support and optimize infrastructure running on Dell PowerEdge servers.
- Manage and troubleshoot enterprise storage platforms for performance, replication, and capacity planning.
- Automation & CI/CD: Develop and maintain automation frameworks using Ansible, Helm, and GitOps methodologies to streamline deployments and operations.
- Resilience & Compliance: Ensure systems meet financial industry standards for security, availability, and regulatory compliance.
- Collaboration: Work closely with developers, traders, and infrastructure teams to deliver reliable, low-latency solutions.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional experience in Linux engineering and system administration.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift and or Kubernetes in production.
- Optimization and Performance focus engineering and design.
- Design once, use many design logic.
- Strong background in financial services or capital markets IT environments.
- Proven expertise with AWS and Azure infrastructure services.
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise server hardware (Dell PowerEdge) and enterprise storage systems (Dell EMC).
- In-depth understanding of authentication, DNS, and time synchronization protocols in complex environments.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi, Bash, Python, or similar).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred Certifications
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or OpenShift Administrator/Architect certification.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA) or Kubernetes Certified Security Specialist (CKS).
