OpenShift Engineer – Kubernetes & Automation Platform

At Lognext we have been accompanying companies and teams for more than 18 years to identify and implement the technology necessary to advance, making their challenges and objectives our own and getting closer to their reality. Therefore, being a NEXTER means that your career and talent become meaningful to you and those around you, allowing you to build what matters most to you and reach your next level.

We are looking for a OpenShift Engineer to join our team for a multinational leader in the financial sector.

📌Key Responsibilities:

• Operate, maintain and support Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform environments, ensuring secure, highly available and performant clusters

• Own the reliability and observability of Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, proactively identifying risks before they become incidents

• Lead the response to production degradations, conduct post-mortems and drive systemic fixes to eliminate repeat failures

• Design and implement Ansible playbooks for automated deployment, configuration management, rolling upgrades and day-to-day operations across Kubernetes and OpenShift clusters

• Build Python tooling to automate health checks, operational workflows, alerting integrations and pipeline diagnostics

• Work closely with DevOps, SRE, Application and Security teams to resolve platform issues, conduct onboarding sessions, technical workshops and produce runbooks

• Enforce change-management policies for upgrades, configuration changes and access control

• Drive capacity planning, cluster scaling and architecture improvements in collaboration with senior and platform engineers

• Participate in an on-call rotation with a strong culture of sustainable incident management

💡Skills:

Essential:

• Hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift 3.x and 4.x, including installation, upgrades and day-to-day administration

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes primitives such as Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, CRDs and Operators

• Strong Linux/Unix fundamentals and confidence diagnosing issues at infrastructure level

• OpenShift SDN/OVN, Ingress/Egress, Service Mesh basics, Load Balancers, NetworkPolicy, CSI drivers, persistent volumes and snapshots

• Ansible, Terraform, Helm, OpenShift Operator SDK and Bash/Python scripting

• Experience with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana and Opentelemetry basics

Desirable:

• 4–6 years of Linux/Unix system administration or cloud platform engineering experience

• At least 2–3 years dedicated to OpenShift/Kubernetes administration in production

• Experience managing clusters of 200 or more nodes and 2,000 or more Pods

• Multi-cluster or multi-region operations experience

• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Bitbucket or Argo CD

• Experience working in ITIL environments, including change control, incident management and request management

• Knowledge of Process & Quality management and Agile principles including Scrum and Kanban

• Experience with ServiceNow and CyberArk

👉 Job Conditions & Benefits:

📜 Permanent contract.

📍 Work Mode: Hybrid, 4 days onsite/ per month (Madrid)

💰 Competitive salary.

🎓 Professional Development: Access to an annual budget dedicated to advancing your skills through professional certifications.

Join our expert team, where creativity, commitment and the ability to bring new perspectives are essential to make a difference in a world full of opportunities.

🚀 Are you ready for your NEXT LEVEL?

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