Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.
Your Role And Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters across on‑premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows to support containerized application delivery.
- Implement cluster monitoring, logging, scaling, backup, and security controls.
- Troubleshoot cluster, networking, and application‑level issues.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure reliable, secure, and performant container platforms.
- Optimize cluster configuration, resource usage, and lifecycle management.
- Create and maintain documentation, operational runbooks, and architectural diagrams.
- Provide guidance, best practices, and support to development teams adopting OpenShift
Preferred Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
- Strong hands‑on experience with Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes in production environments.
- Proficiency with Linux administration and containerization tools (Docker or Podman).
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Argo CD, or Tekton.
- Ability to configure and troubleshoot OpenShift networking, ingress, routes, and service mesh components.
- Strong knowledge of automation using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, or similar tools.
- Experience with monitoring and logging platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, or equivalent).
- Understanding of security concepts: RBAC, OAuth, secrets management, pod security, and image scanning.
- Ability to diagnose cluster issues and performance bottlenecks.
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
- Red Hat OpenShift certifications (e.g., EX280, EX288, EX480).
- Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or OpenShift Service Mesh.
- Familiarity with cloud providers (AWS) and their managed Kubernetes services.
- Experience with GitOps methodologies, especially Argo CD or Flux.
- Knowledge of operators and operator‑based application lifecycle management.
- Background in SRE practices, reliability engineering, and observability frameworks.
- Experience implementing multi‑cluster, multi‑tenant, or edge OpenShift architectures.
