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Job Description
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to be a hands-on member of the DevOps & Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) practice using Red Hat OpenShift AI for a key public sector client in Ireland. You will be responsible for building, maintaining and optimising DevOps/MLOps pipelines that power AI driven models. The role is suited to a pragmatic problem solver who is proficient in DevOps and looking to develop skills in MLOps. Candidate ideally must be able to be on client location as the role required an on-site hybrid presence in Dublin 2-3 days per week.

KEY SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrable experience, supporting multi-cluster OpenShift/Kubernetes environments.
• OpenShift cluster administrative operations, such as scale nodes, upgrades, and granting permissions to users and groups.
• Configure OpenShift namespaces, network policies, resource quotas, and node selectors.
• Observability tooling, with strong experience working with Prometheus, Grafana ELK and related technologies.
• Kubernetes Operators life-cycle management, custom resource configuration and upgrades.
• Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes based SDN.
• Experience supporting underlying infrastructure components for TCP/IP networks eg DHCP and DNS services.
• GitOps management for deployments, configuration and state management for clusters.
• CI/CD automation and industry standards for DEVOPS principles.
• Work in agile based environments, with the ability to analyze and report incidents proactively, seeking continuous improvements.
• Kubernetes storage support with file, block, PVC, Object Storage. Knowledge of Ceph, Noobaa, ODF, OpenShift Container Storage or related.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• BSc in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years experience with Linux systems administration and networking
• 5+ years experience supporting Java (or similar) based development teams.
  Additional Information

• Operations support of a Kubernetes based container platform in a large-scale environment.
• Supporting multi-stack development teams on each stage of the SDLC.
• Supporting automated deployments, release planning and troubleshooting in both non-prod and prod clusters.
• User management with RBAC & AD integration.
• Regular patch updates to Kubernetes, base images and node management in a controlled and automated process.
• Route, Ingress, Service and networking troubleshooting on Kubernetes software defined network.
• Monitoring support and effective service uptime management in a 24 X 7 based environment.
  Qualifications