Infrastructure Engineer

OVERVIEW We are seeking a high-caliber Infrastructure Engineer to join our Security & DevSecOps squad. In this role, you will translate architectural visions into robust, executable designs for on-premises OpenShift clusters and underlying hardware abstractions. We are looking for a systems expert who can work independently to manage the complexity of bare-metal OpenShift deployments and mission-critical storage. OUR CORE INFRASTRUCTURE STACK OpenShift Platform & Virtualization - OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) administration on bare-metal/on-prem environments - ·OpenShift Virtualization for managing VM-based workloads alongside containers - ·RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) advanced system administration and performance tuning Networking & Storage - · OpenShift Networking (Software Defined Networking / OVN-Kubernetes) - · OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) for persistent, software-defined storage - · Load balancing, ingress controllers, and DNS management within a restricted network Security & Observability - · Cluster Security (Security Context Constraints (SCC), RBAC, Network Policies) - · Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager) - · Disaster Recovery (DR) and high-availability (HA) planning for stateful workloads - Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Ansible/OpenTofu) for cluster day-2 operations. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES - Convert high-level blueprints into detailed cluster specs, including IP address management (IPAM), storage topology, and VLAN tagging for bare-metal OCP. - Bare-Metal Administration: Independently lead the installation, scaling, and lifecycle management of OpenShift on physical hardware, including firmware updates and node provisioning. - Storage Orchestration: Architect and manage OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), ensuring persistent storage is highly available and performant for simulation databases. - Network Engineering: Design and troubleshoot complex OVN-Kubernetes network patterns, ensuring secure and low-latency commun