About this opportunity
Ericsson is a global leader in telecom, enabling the Networked Society across 175 countries. We're hiring a Cloud System Expert (Senior OpenShift Engineer) to lead migration, modernization, and operation of enterprise container platforms (Red Hat OpenShift) across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on transforming legacy workloads to cloud-native platforms with high availability, security, and automation.
What you will do
- Lead migrations from KVM/VMware/OpenStack, on-prem Kubernetes, and OpenShift 3.x to OpenShift 4.x.
- Assess and modernize monolithic apps for containerization, microservices, or replatforming with minimal downtime.
- Design, deploy and manage scalable, multi-cluster OpenShift architectures across on-prem and public clouds.
- Implement automation for migrations and operations using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD).
- Define resource quotas, autoscaling, and performance tuning for production workloads.
- Enforce security and compliance: RBAC, network/pod policies, image scanning, and CIS/NIST alignment.
- Build observability and CI/CD: Prometheus/Grafana, centralized logging (ELK/Loki), Jenkins/GitLab CI, ArgoCD.
- Mentor and lead cross-functional teams; document runbooks, best practices, and migration plans.
The skills you bring
- Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift (OCP 4.x+), Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
- Proven application migration knowledge: Lift & Shift, Replatforming, Refactoring for cloud-native.
- Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) with OpenShift deployments and hybrid/multi-cloud design.
- Automation and IaC skills: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Bash/Python scripting.
- GitOps experience (ArgoCD/FluxCD) and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
- Security and observability expertise: image scanning (Trivy/Clair/Quay), RBAC, Prometheus/Grafana, logging stacks.
- Strong leadership, communication, and mentoring capabilities.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: India (IN) || Noida
Req ID: 782682
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What We Do
Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
Why Work With Us
Ericsson is a place for people who want to work on technology that powers everyday life. You’ll contribute to large-scale systems used every day, tackle complex challenges in live environments, and keep developing your skills and career in your own vision.
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