OpenShift Platform Engineer

Version 1 has celebrated over 28 years in Technology Services and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver solutions that drive customer success. Our expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly changing Digital-First world we live in. We foster strong partnerships with leading technology giants including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of Version 1 and what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!

Responsibilities

• Operations support of a Kubernetes based container platform in a large-scale environment.
• Supporting multi-stack development teams on each stage of the SDLC.
• Supporting automated deployments, release planning and troubleshooting in both non-prod and prod clusters.
• User management with RBAC & AD integration.
• Regular patch updates to Kubernetes, base images and node management in a controlled and automated process.
• Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes software defined network.
• Monitoring support and effective service uptime management in a 24 X 7 based environment.

Key Skills / Experience

• Demonstrable experience, supporting multi-cluster OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• OpenShift cluster administrative operations, such as scale nodes, upgrades, and granting permissions to users and groups.
• Configure OpenShift namespaces, network policies, resource quotas, and node selectors.
• Observability tooling, with strong experience working with Prometheus, Grafana ELK and related technologies.
• Kubernetes Operators life-cycle management, custom resource configuration and upgrades.
• Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes based SDN.
• Experience supporting underlying infrastructure components for TCP/IP networks eg DHCP and DNS services.
• GitOps management for deployments, configuration and state management for clusters.
• CI/CD automation and industry standards for DEVOPS principles.
• Work in agile based environments, with the ability to analyze and report incidents proactively, seeking continuous improvements.
• Kubernetes storage support with file, block, PVC, Object Storage. Knowledge of Ceph, Noobaa, ODF, OpenShift Container Storage or related.

Basic Qualifications:

• BSc in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years experience with Linux systems administration and networking
• 5+ years experience supporting Java (or similar) based development teams.

Why Version 1?

At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits.
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme.
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance.
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme.
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies.
• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat.
• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

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