Senior Red Hat OpenShift Engineer

About the Company

Avaron AB is a growing consultancy focused on technology, finance, and business support. We match your expertise with the market's most interesting assignments, offering a platform where your professional development is central.

About the Assignment

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift to join a highly skilled team in a consultant capacity. You will become a key contributor to a mission-critical container platform, supporting continuous improvements, operational excellence and architectural best practices in a DevOps/SRE-oriented environment.

The role is hands-on from day one and focuses on keeping the OpenShift platform stable, secure and scalable while enabling efficient onboarding and knowledge transfer within the team.

Job DescriptionDeploy, configure, operate and troubleshoot Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x) environments

Perform day-2 operations such as cluster administration, upgrades and disaster recovery activities

Provide architectural guidance, best practices and continuous improvement proposals for the platform

Manage authentication integrations such as LDAP/SSO and work with OpenShift Operators

Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes and platform-level issues across clusters and workloads

Collaborate closely with DevOps, SRE and platform teams to ensure stability and scalability

Contribute to onboarding and rapid knowledge transfer in the team

Requirements7+ years of experience in senior-level Linux, DevOps or SRE roles

At least 4 years of hands-on focus on Kubernetes and OpenShift

Expert-level Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x) experience, including architecture, IPI/UPI installations, upgrades and disaster recovery

Strong experience with day-2 operations, cluster administration and node administration

Strong Kubernetes expertise, including core components (etcd, API server, scheduler, controller manager) and advanced troubleshooting

Experience with CRDs, dynamic admission controllers, and scheduling strategies/patterns

Advanced Infrastructure as Code and automation skills with Ansible and Terraform

Deep understanding of container runtimes (CRI-O, Docker) and image registries (Quay, Artifactory)

Strong knowledge of container networking (CNI), ingress/egress routing, and service mesh technologies

Experience implementing and operating observability stacks at scale, including Prometheus, Grafana and EFK/ELK

Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP), including networking and IAM

Strong knowledge of container and Kubernetes security best practices (RBAC, Pod Security Standards, Network Policies, vulnerability scanning)

Proficiency in Bash and/or Python for automation and scripting

Nice to haveExperience with OpenShift Virtualization

Experience with OpenShift GitOps (Argo CD)

Experience with OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)

Application

Selections are made on an ongoing basis, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible.