Senior Red Hat OpenShift Engineer

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.

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.

• Deploy, 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

• 7+ 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

• Experience with OpenShift Virtualization
• Experience with OpenShift GitOps (Argo CD)
• Experience with OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)

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