Senior Platform Consultant – OpenShift, Ansible & Virtualization

About the role

Tools & Solutions is seeking a Senior Platform Consultant to design, deploy, administer and optimise enterprise Red Hat OpenShift and related platform infrastructure. The role covers the full lifecycle from architecture and deployment through Day‑2 operations, upgrades, migrations and disaster recovery for complex production environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) using IPI, UPI and ABI across bare‑metal, VMware, Nutanix, GCP and AWS.
• Manage Day‑2 operations including monitoring, logging, backup/restore, upgrades and incident resolution.
• Administer OpenShift Virtualization, VM lifecycle, storage integration and disaster‑recovery activities.
• Implement Ansible‑based automation for infrastructure and platform tasks, supporting Ansible Automation Platform and Event‑Driven Ansible.
• Provide technical consulting, documentation and knowledge transfer to customers and internal teams.

Required profile

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in platform engineering, Linux or DevOps.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Red Hat OpenShift in enterprise production environments.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, perform migrations and ensure platform security.

Required skills

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP)
• Ansible automation
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration
• Kubernetes
• VMware, Nutanix, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services
• TCP/IP networking, routing, switching, storage
• Git, Argo CD, Tekton, Terraform, HashiCorp Vault
• Prometheus, Elastic/ELK
• Python, Shell scripting, Go