Location: 4x per week/remote BI Weekly Toronto
Length: 12 Month Duration + Extension
rate: 70-105
Required Skills & Experience
- 6+ years of Platform experience.
- Proficiency in Ansible automation, including writing and reading playbooks.
- Experience with on-prem OpenShift.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Experience with platform development.
- Direct, independent ownership of OpenShift cluster operations in regulated enterprise environments (ideally within Canadian financial services or similar).
- Strong hands-on experience operating OCP Platform Engineering environments including cluster installs, migrations, RBAC, autoscaling, statefulsets, ArgoCD, MachineConfigPools, and ETCD management.
- Experience with automation (Ansible / Infrastructure as Code) for OpenShift.
- Experience implementing security and compliance controls including SCCs, Network Policies, Vault, and mTLS.
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices.
- Experience working within regulated banking or financial services environments.
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with Ansible Platform Tower.
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling such as Jenkins and CICS.
- Experience with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD in enterprise environments.
Job Description
Join an on‑premises OpenShift Platform Engineering team supporting enterprise-scale Red Hat OpenShift environments (versions 4.18 and 4.2). This role focuses on platform stability, upgrades, architecture, platform development, and operational excellence across container infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities
- Participate in planning and executing OpenShift platform upgrades.
- Provide guidance and knowledge sharing on configuring Red Hat OpenShift, open-source tools, and related vendor technologies.
- Support projects involving architecture design, installation, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management of OpenShift clusters.
- Perform system administration tasks including design, build, support, and troubleshooting of OpenShift environments.
- Conduct performance tuning, optimization, and system hardening for OpenShift platforms.
- Review and improve platform health checks, maintenance scripts, and automation frameworks (Ansible/IaC).
- Ensure infrastructure configurations align with best practices, security standards, and compliance requirements.
- Develop and maintain executive-level and operational dashboards to track progress against key success metrics.
- Participate in escalated support activities related to OpenShift issues.
- Document platform architecture, designs, and integrated components in internal knowledge repositories.
- Mentor internal staff on OpenShift technologies and best practices.
- Contribute to the development of container security standards and controls (SCCs, Network Policies, Vault, mTLS).
- Lead project kickoff meetings with stakeholders and consultants.
- Collaborate with the client-side project manager to define objectives, scope, and delivery milestones.
- Coordinate vendor and support resources as required.
Provide regular updates and briefings on resource utilization and project activities.
Pay: $70.00-$105.00 per hour
Application question(s):
- Are you okay with the hybrid model of Remote bi weekly and 4 days on site bi weekly?
- How many years of Platform Engineering do you have? We are not looks for DevOps expertise, platform engineering is a must and expectation.
- How many years of openshift do you have? How many clusters have you developed and designed from scratch on your own?
- Is openshift your primary tool in your environment? If it is not, this will not be a fit.
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5X 1A9
