Linux OpenShift Consultant
Who We are:
Tier-2 is a wholly owned subsidiary of Prolifics Application Services Inc - a digital engineering and consulting firm helping clients navigate and accelerate their digital transformation journeys;
We are the only Red Hat Premier Middleware Partner in the UK & Ireland, and one of only a handful of Red Hat Container Platform Specialists in Europe, as recognition of our expertise in Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based OpenShift Container Platform.
Location:
Based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, Tier 2 works in partnership with organisations of all sizes, and across industry sectors, to understand their business challenges, and deliver custom software solutions using modern, open-source, cloud-native technology and an agile project approach.
The Role:
Reporting to the Head of Middleware, the Linux OpenShift Consultant will perform a key role in helping our customers design and implement their digital transformation strategy on Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform.
Job Summary:
- To provide consultancy services to customers on the planning, installation, configuration and management of Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform based on recognised best practices;
- To act as a technical focal point for OpenShift and related technologies within Tier 2, including ongoing involvement in the OpenShift Commons community;
- To be responsible for the installation, configuration and ongoing management of Tier 2’s cloud infrastructure, including AWS and OpenShift
Scope of Work:
- Planning and performing the installation and configuration of OpenShift Container Platform on hybrid cloud environments – to include a combination of on-premise, AWS and Azure;
- Deployment and configuration of containerised services on OpenShift Container Platform, such as Jenkins, Red Hat Runtimes and integration services such as Red Hat Fuse and AMQ;
- Providing in-house expertise and be hands on in the ongoing management of the OpenShift environment;
- Participating in requirements gathering and estimating effort for new enhancements and developments utilising OpenShift;
- Assisting with the installation, configuration and ongoing maintenance of Tier 2’s internal cloud infrastructure, comprising Amazon EC2 instances and OpenShift environments;
- Acting as a technical focal point for OpenShift and related technologies within Tier 2, including ongoing involvement in the OpenShift Commons community;
Skills and experience:
- Decent work experience as a Linux Systems Engineer (preferably with RHCE qualification) including installing, configuring and maintaining Linux server environments;
- Practical experience of configuration management / deployment automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef;
- Experience of working with the leading cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure;
- Experience in infrastructure automation tools (CloudFormation, Terraform or Ansible);
- Experience working with docker containers & container orchestration tools (such as Kubernetes, RedHat OpenShift or Docker Swarm);
- Sound knowledge of data serialisation languages such as JSON and YAML;
- Familiarity with standard DevOps tools such as Git, Jenkins, TeamCity etc;
- Use of monitoring tools such as Kibana, Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
Tier 2 Consulting Ltd is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
