Senior OpenShift Engineer

Sr OpenShift Engineer

   

Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 78 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over ~23000 professionals in >160 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree.

At our Global Excellence Centre (GEC) in Hyderabad, we support Solenis’ global operations by driving excellence in IT, analytics, finance, and other critical business functions. Located in the heart of the IT hub, the GEC offers a dynamic work environment with strong career development opportunities in a rapidly growing yet stable organization. Employees benefit from world-class infrastructure, including an on-campus gym, recreation facilities, creche services, and convenient access to public transport.

For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com.

🚨 We're Hiring:  Sr OpenShift Engineer   

📍 Location: Hyderabad India – Hybrid

🕒 Full-Time | Permanent Position

Job Description:

We set up our GSS Center in Hyderabad in 2019 and ever since we aim at growing our shared service center which is now home to 580+ employees with an intent to keep adding great talent in the field of Finance, Operational excellence, Commercial Analytics, IT and HRSS. We're eager to invest in team players who are passionate, analytical, smart and experienced, because our brand will only be as strong as the team it represents. If this is you, we would love to have you onboard!

What you will do day to day:

Sr OpenShift Engineer with an emphasis in OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes orchestration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CI/CD pipelines, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The Specialist will provide advanced support for containerized workloads as well as lead initiatives to optimize platform reliability, scalability, and security. This individual builds, manages, maintains, supports, troubleshoots, and optimizes the OpenShift environment.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, design, and build highly available, secure, and scalable OpenShift clusters across on‑prem, hybrid, or multi‑cloud environments.


• Lead end‑to‑end cluster lifecycle: installation, upgrades, capacity planning, backup/restore, and decommissioning.


• Own major incident management for OpenShift, including deep‑dive troubleshooting, RCA, and implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

• Define and enforce OpenShift platform standards, governance, and best practices for multi‑tenant workloads and CI/CD.


• Design and implement automated cluster operations (provisioning, patching, scaling, DR) using Infrastructure as Code and GitOps (Ansible, Terraform, etc.).


• Guide application teams on onboarding, containerization patterns, routing, ingress, storage, and security controls on OpenShift.


• Implement and tune monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance optimization for large OpenShift estates.


• Mentor and technically lead junior engineers; conduct design and code reviews related to OpenShift platform changes.



Required skills and experience

• 7–10+ years in infrastructure/DevOps/SRE, with 4–5+ years hands‑on in Red Hat OpenShift (v4) cluster build and administration.


• Expert-level understanding of Kubernetes concepts (nodes, pods, controllers, networking, storage, operators) and OpenShift-specific implementations.


• Proven experience building and operating production OpenShift clusters at scale, including networking, security (RBAC, SCC, image policies), and storage integrations.


• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration and scripting skills (Bash/Python) for automation and troubleshooting.


• Hands-on experience with GitOps and CI/CD tooling (Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar) for application and platform deployments.


• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, EFK/ELK) for platform health and capacity management.


• Exposure to at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integration of OpenShift with cloud-native services.



Preferred qualifications

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or higher-level OpenShift Architect–track certifications.


• Experience in designing OpenShift for regulated or mission‑critical environments with strong security and compliance requirements.


• Background in migration of workloads to OpenShift (VM-to-container, monolith-to-microservices, or datacenter/cloud migrations).



Behavioural and leadership competencies

• Strong ownership mindset with ability to lead complex, time‑critical incidents and platform changes end‑to‑end.
• Excellent communication skills to influence architects, developers, and leadership and to explain complex platform topics clearly.


• Mentoring attitude, driving continuous improvement, automation-first culture, and platform reliability across teams.

Some benefits of working with us

• Access to a huge array of internal and external training courses on our learning system (free)
• Access to self-paced language training (free)
• Birthday or wedding anniversary gift of INR 1500
• Charity work once a year, to give back to the community
• Company car, phone if required for role
• Competitive health and wellness benefit plan
• Continuous professional development with numerous opportunities for growth
• Creche facility
• Employee Business Resource Groups (EBRGs)
• Electric car charging stations
• Hybrid work arrangement eg. 3 days in office
• Internet allowance
• No-meeting Fridays
• Parking on site (free)
• Relocation assistance available
• Staff hangout spaces, enjoy games like carrom, chess
• Transport by cab if working the midnight – 7am shift
• Well connected to public transport, only a 10 min walk to office

We understand that candidates will not meet every single desired job requirement.  If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Solenis is constantly growing.  Come and grow your career with us.

At Solenis, we understand that our greatest asset is our people. That is why we offer competitive compensation, and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. So, if you are interested in working for a world-class company and enjoy solving complex challenges, consider joining our team.

                                                                                 

Experience Level

Senior Level