Infrastructure Specialist

**Infrastructure Specialist - Red Hat Certified** Specialist in OpenShift Administration.

**Competencies**
- A recognized diploma/degreed in Information Systems or its equivalent.
- Certification in Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.
- Knowledge of Cloud-Native technologies like Istio, Prometheus, Jaeger, etc
- Familiarity with Microservices architecture and managing microservices on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
- Minimum 10 years of experience as an OpenShift Administrator, Kubernetes Administrator, or similar DevOps role.
- Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container orchestration.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and containerization technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integration of OpenShift with Jenkins, GitLab, or similar tools.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and virtualized environments (VMware).

**Key Responsibilities**
- **Strategy and Planning -**Provide advice and guidance to management form technical point of view. Evaluate and recommend technology controls, mitigation techniques and resilience solutions for the Bank. Establish a good and effective cross department working relationships with key reporting areas and build strong working relationships with external consultants, vendors, regulators and business user.
- **Manage OpenShift Cluster**:Administer, monitor, and maintain multiple OpenShift clusters across various environments (production, disaster recovery, and development).
- **Cluster Installation & Configuration**:Install, configure, and maintain OpenShift clusters using tools like Ansible, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift installation tools.
- **Infrastructure Management**:Ensure that the OpenShift infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and secure. Manage and configure virtualized infrastructure which is on-premises data centers.
- **Security & Compliance**:Manage security configurations, including RBAC, network policies, authentication, and authorization. Ensure compliance with security policies, including OpenShift lifecycle, patching and vulnerability management.
- **Automation**: Automate repetitive tasks, including OpenShift deployment, scaling, patching, and backup using scripts and tools like Ansible and others.

Backup and Recovery: Implement and manage backup strategies for OpenShift clusters and associated resources (e.g. persistent storage, etc.).
- **Documentation**:Maintain clear documentation for cluster configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting guides.
- **Collaboration**: Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure that OpenShift clusters meet the needs of the business and development workflows.
- **Act as 2nd level escalation support when needed -**Improve the Platform management daily operation strategies for the Bank. Manage the development and implementation of Platform improvement plans and projects.
- **Regulatory Compliance**:Ensures all operations/project are in compliance with Group, local and regional regulations. Ensures compliance with regulatory requirements (eg. MAS, SGX, etc. ) and external auditors

**Technical/Functional skills**
- Strong technical management, problem management and leadership skills.
- Highly result oriented and can work independently.
- Ability to build relationships and interact effectively with internal and external parties.
- Good analytical, technical, written and communication skills.

**Strong experience**:

- Strong knowledge of Linux (RHEL/Oracle Linux etc) system administration, including systemd, firewalld, and SELinux.
- Experience managing Helm, Ansible, and Git for automation and configuration management.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, or other monitoring and logging tools.
- Experience with networking concepts including DNS, load balancing, routing, and firewalls in containerized environments.
- Experience with storage solutions, persistent volumes, and dynamic provisioning in OpenShift.

Pay: RM10,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month

**Experience**:

- Prometheus, Grafana: 5 years (preferred)
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration.: 4 years (required)
- Cloud-Native technologies like Istio, Prometheus, Jaeger,: 3 years (preferred)
- Kubernetes/OpenShift: 3 years (preferred)
- Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, and container orchestration: 5 years (required)
- Docker and containerization technologies: 4 years (required)
- Linux (RHEL/Oracle Linux etc) system administration: 5 years (required)
- managing Helm, Ansible, and Git for automation: 5 years (preferred)