Senior OpenShift & CP4I Operations Engineer
- Location
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Country
- Saudi Arabia
- Category
- Technology & IT
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Application
- External application
- Posted
- 6 Oct 2026
- Closes
- 26 Oct 2026
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About this role
Job Summary:
We are hiring for IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator/Engineer who will be responsible for architecting, deploying, securing, and managing Red Hat OpenShift and IBM CP4I platforms across hybrid cloud environments. This role will focus 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.
Job Responsibilities:
* Plan, architect, install, and configure Red Hat OpenShift clusters across hybrid cloud environments, including provisioning the core IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) platform using Operator Lifecycle Managers (OLM).
* Manage and lifecycle-configure core CP4I capabilities through their respective IBM operators, including IBM MQ, API Connect, App Connect (ACE), Event Streams (Kafka), and Aspera.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
Job Requirements:
* Deep, practical engineering experience managing production-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters and administering IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components.
* Solid knowledge of Software-Defined Networking (SDN/OVN), Ingress/Route architectures, service meshes (Istio), network policies, and container security compliance scanning.
* Strong technical comprehension of enterprise integration patterns, containerized message-queuing mechanics, and API lifecycle architectures.
* Exceptional analytical and systemic debugging capabilities, possessing a high technical attention to container density logs and compute sizing variables.
* 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.
* Coordinates systematic fixes and clear mitigation strategies under pressure, keeping high-availability platforms operational.
* Effectively collaborates across remote and hybrid teams, translating complex container infrastructure into clear deployment guidance
* Champions automation, infrastructure-as-code consistency, and platform compliance while minimizing manual configuration practices.
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical system discipline.
* Fluent English (written and verbal) is required. Spoken and written Arabic is highly advantageous and preferred