Position Overview:
The IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator is a systems infrastructure specialist responsible for designing, deploying, securing, and maintaining our enterprise hybrid-cloud integration architecture. Sitting at the intersection of Cloud DevOps and Middleware Engineering, this role focuses on the end-to-end administration of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) to guarantee high availability and continuous automated pipeline scaling.
Core Responsibilities:
- Cluster & CP4I Deployment: Plan, architect, install, and configure Red Hat OpenShift clusters across hybrid cloud environments, provisioning the core IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) platform using Operator Lifecycle Managers (OLM).
- Integration Component Management: Manage and lifecycle-configure core CP4I capabilities via their respective IBM operators, including IBM MQ, API Connect, App Connect (ACE), Event Streams (Kafka), and Aspera.
- Security & Identity Governance: Secure cluster infrastructures by enforcing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), managing Red Hat OpenShift OAuth integrations, Keycloak/IAM identity layers, and SSL/TLS certificate configurations.
- Compute, Storage & Lifecycle: Architect container persistent storage layers using Software-Defined Storage engines and schedule seamless cluster upgrades, security patching, and node updates with a zero-downtime objective.
- Performance Diagnostics & Triage: Configure APM surveillance dashboards, automate multi-tenant provisioning using GitOps paradigms, and systematically troubleshoot complex cluster degradation events, persistent volume failures, and pod networking drops.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, or related technical discipline
- Deep, practical experience managing production-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters and administering IBM CP4I components
- Experience deploying and managing CP4I capabilities via OLM operators (IBM MQ, API Connect, ACE, Event Streams, Aspera)
- Expertise with OpenShift security and identity: RBAC, OpenShift OAuth, Keycloak/IAM, SSL/TLS certificate management
- Knowledge of networking and service mesh: SDN/OVN, Ingress/Route architectures, Istio, network policies
- Designing container persistent storage layers (ODF/Ceph/Portworx) and experience with AWS EBS/EFS and CSI plugins
- Strong analytical/systemic debugging skills for cluster degradation, PV failures, and pod networking issues
- Scripting and CLI skills: Linux CLI, Bash, Python, oc, kubectl
- Infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD/GitOps tool experience: Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton
- Monitoring and observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Logging, Sysdig; APM dashboard configuration experience
- Experience enforcing container security compliance scanning and container security best practices
- Fluent English (written and verbal)
- Spoken and written Arabic
What We Do
Innovation Team is an IT consulting company that provides a comprehensive range of specialized professional solutions and services to businesses. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and branches serving other regions in the world, Innovation Team seeks to assist businesses operating in various industries to achieve their business objectives and to perform their day-to-day operations as competently and as efficiently possible. Our solutions and services are delivered at the hands of some of the most dedicated professionals in the field. In providing our scope of offerings, we work closely with vendors/manufacturers, experienced consulting firms, and system integrators; ensuring all our clientele receive optimum and timely services, consistently.
