Title: OpenShift Platform Lead/Architect – GCP Migration

Location: Hartford, CT/Remote but Local candidate

Duration:12+months

Must

• GCP and GKE experience is mandatory for all roles
  
  

Overview

We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Platform Lead with experience deploying and managing OpenShift in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This role is focused on supporting a major cloud migration initiative by enabling, configuring, and optimizing OpenShift workloads in GCP environments. Candidates must have deep hands-on expertise in both container orchestration and cloud platform services.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) clusters on GCP (both self-managed and/or managed offerings).
• Migrate containerized applications and workloads from on-prem OpenShift to GCP-hosted OpenShift or GKE.
• Work closely with GCP cloud engineers to ensure proper networking, IAM, security, and service integrations.
• Automate deployment workflows using Helm, Terraform, GitOps, or native OpenShift tools.
• Manage cluster upgrades, security patches, logging, and monitoring within OpenShift.
• Collaborate with DevOps and application teams to build and manage CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Tekton).
• Support hybrid cloud deployments and implement best practices around container security and compliance.
  
  

Required Skills

• 4+ years of hands-on experience with OpenShift (4.x preferred).
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and day-2 operations.
• Experience with GCP infrastructure: Compute Engine, IAM, VPC, GKE, Stackdriver, Cloud Monitoring.
• Proficiency in CI/CD practices, GitOps workflows, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong experience with Linux administration, container runtimes (CRI-O, Docker/Podman).
• Scripting and automation (e.g., Bash, Python, Ansible).
• Deep understanding of OpenShift features like Operators, Service Mesh, Routes, SCCs, etc.