IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator

Requirements

• Required Skills & Qualifications:
• Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical system discipline.
• Core Engineering Track Record: Deep, practical engineering experience managing production-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters and administering IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components.
• Architecture & Pattern Competency: Solid knowledge of Software-Defined Networking (SDN/OVN), Ingress/Route architectures, service meshes (Istio), network policies, and container security compliance scanning.
• Security & Protocol Familiarity: Strong technical comprehension of enterprise integration patterns, containerized message-queuing mechanics, and API lifecycle architectures.
• Analytical Evaluation: Exceptional analytical and systemic debugging capabilities, possessing a high technical attention to container density logs and compute sizing variables.
• Technical Toolkit & Systems:
• Core Development Environments: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP), OKD, Kubernetes, CoreOS, IBM CP4I, IBM MQ, API Connect, ACE, Event Streams, DataPower.
• Programming Languages & UI Engines: Linux CLI, Bash, Python scripting, OpenShift CLI (oc), kubectl.
• Networking, Core APIs & Engines: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), Ceph, Portworx, CSI plugins, AWS EBS/EFS.
• Dependency & Repository Managers: Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Customize, OLM Operators, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Logging, Sysdig.
• Enterprise Project Management Suites: Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO), or Microsoft TFS.
• Collaboration & Soft Skills:
• High-Stakes Resolution & Composure: Maintains absolute composure and structured focus when critical, production cluster failures or microservice outages emerge. Coordinates systematic fixes and clear mitigation strategies under pressure, keeping high-availability platforms operational.
• Distributed Workspace Collaborative Partner: Highly capable of performing smoothly across remote or hybrid team environments, translating complex container infrastructure realities into actionable deployment guidelines for integration teams.
• Pristine Quality Advocate: Constantly champions structural automation, infrastructure-as-code consistency, and strict platform compliance, steering teams away from localized, manually modified configuration anti-patterns.
• Language & Communication Excellence: Fluent English (written and verbal) is required. Spoken and written Arabic is highly advantageous and preferred.