Job Title:  Sr Team Lead | OpenShift | Delhi | Engineering | Hybrid Cloud Engineering

Sr Team Lead | Engineering, AI & Data – Engineering | Openshift

• Location:  Delhi

The team

Engineering helps Reimagine and re-engineer mission-critical operations and processes; Leverage engineering-led design, deep industry knowledge, and AI and data-driven insights to transform the technology platforms at the heart of business.  

Working alongside team, we empower and drive mission-critical solutions whether we need to modernize existing systems or implement new technology products and platforms. Through innovation, we improve financial performance, accelerate new digital businesses and fuel growth. Learn more about Engineering, AI and Data

Your work profile

As a Manager at Deloitte you are responsible to lead, manage, and support enterprise-grade Red Hat OpenShift platforms in on-premises environments. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the administration, automation, security, performance, and lifecycle management of OpenShift platforms, supporting business-critical applications in regulated environments. 

• Serve as the technical SME and platform lead for OpenShift environments.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and maintain OpenShift clusters in on-premises environments.
• Manage OpenShift platform components including Operators (OLM), Machine Config Operator (MCO), Cluster Version Operator (CVO), Image Registry, Ingress Controllers, Routes, and etcd.
• Administer Kubernetes resources including Pods, Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Services, Namespaces, ConfigMaps, Secrets, PVs, and PVCs.
• Perform cluster backup, recovery, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management activities.
• Monitor cluster health, availability, capacity, and performance using enterprise monitoring and logging tools.
• Troubleshoot platform, application, networking, and storage-related issues.
• Perform capacity planning, resource optimization, scaling, and performance tuning.
• Support production incidents, root cause analysis (RCA), and operational excellence initiatives.

• Implement platform security controls including RBAC, SCC, authentication/authorization, certificate management, secrets management, and platform hardening.
• Configure and manage OpenShift networking components such as OVN-Kubernetes/OpenShift SDN, Routes, Ingress Controllers, Network Policies, DNS, and Load Balancer integrations.
• Manage persistent storage solutions including Storage Classes, PVs, PVCs, NFS, SAN/NAS, Ceph, and CSI-based storage integrations.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.

• Develop and maintain automation using Ansible, Shell Scripting, and Terraform.
• Support and integrate CI/CD and GitOps solutions using tools such as ArgoCD, OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton), and Jenkins.
• Integrate OpenShift with enterprise monitoring, logging, container registry, security scanning, and identity management solutions.
• Work closely with development teams to optimize application deployments and platform utilization.

• Design and support High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for OpenShift platforms.
• Support change management, upgrades, and production releases with minimal downtime.
• Create and maintain SOPs, runbooks, architecture documents, and RCA reports.
• Collaborate with Linux, Network, Security, Infrastructure, and Application teams to ensure platform stability and compliance.

Key skills required: 

• Education-Any Bachelors
• 7–10 years of overall IT experience with at least 5–6 years of hands-on OpenShift/Kubernetes administration experience.
• Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP 4.x) and Kubernetes.
• Experience managing production OpenShift clusters in on-premises environments.
• Strong understanding of OpenShift architecture, Operators, OLM, MCO, CVO, etcd, networking, and storage.
• Hands-on experience with OpenShift security, RBAC, SCC, platform hardening, and container security.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Loki.
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration skills.
• Experience with Ansible, Shell Scripting, and Terraform automation.
• Experience supporting CI/CD and GitOps platforms such as ArgoCD, Tekton, or Jenkins.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• OpenShift and Kubernetes certifications (RHCSA OpenShift, CKA, CKAD, or equivalent) are preferred.