Associate Consultant - OpenShift

Red Hat · Kolkata

  • Experience5–10 yrs
  • SalaryNot disclosed
  • Work modeonsite
  • Levelsenior
  • Posted15 Sept 2026

About Red Hat

Red Hat is hiring in Kolkata in technology software. This role looks for around 5+ years of experience.

Skills

  • OpenShift
  • Container infrastructure
  • OpenShift administration
  • Troubleshooting
  • L2 support
  • Root cause analysis
  • Backup and recovery
  • Access control
  • Performance monitoring
  • Capacity planning
  • Incident management
  • Technical documentation
  • Customer support

The role

An OpenShift consultant at a technology software company administers container infrastructure, resolves cluster issues, and supports customer operations through OpenShift administration, container infrastructure, and troubleshooting. The role also applies Red Hat certification and customer consulting.

Full job description

About the Job:

The Associate Consultant exercises judgment when following general instructions and is responsible for working independently to support complex consulting engagements, focusing on resolving routine and semi-routine technical issues of limited to moderate complexity. This role prioritizes work and meets deadlines with minimal instruction. The Associate Consultant contributes to project success by applying growing technical expertise and collaborating effectively with team members.

This role focuses on developing advanced technical skills and consulting proficiency.

This is a client facing role in Kolkata.

The job requires an Engineer to administer the Openshift set up for the large PSU.

Candidate is required to provide RCA and resolve L2 tickets for the customer issues.

Candidate is required to provide Solutions to customer problems and create SOPs for the day 2 day operations.

The individual is required to supportthe Day2 operations of the customer.

The Job requires the individual to work in Shifts.

What will you do

Assist the Client with the review of the implemented design documentation

Manage status and health of Openshift

Manage masters and nodes- Addition and remove of apps / worker nodes

Secure OpenShift- Patches and maintain the security architecture / policies defined during LLD

Control access to resources on OpenShift

Monitor and collect metrics on OpenShift

Collaborate with the Customer capacity team and provide technical inputs.

Openshift Backup

Be able to analyze Openshift performance issues and provide solutions.

Assist and engage with the client on BaU activities.

Categorizing providing work around for resolutions defects

Collaborate with Ops team for identification of critical updates, upgrades and validating such in non-prod setup.

Provide RCA and resolution for priority 1 other important tickets tickets for critical updates, upgrades

Health check for critical applications\ Workloads

Knowledge base addition for support team for first level of Analysis and Basic Log collection in downtime, which will help to reduce the time spend on Incident Calls

Help in troubleshooting the production critical issues \ Priority 1 tickets in conjunction with Red Hat Global Support Services (GSS).

Creating SOP ( standard operating procedures) for critical updates, upgrades for roll-outs

Assist the Client with the administration of a backlog of tasks in an issue tracking tool, which allow the design to be implemented.

Provide knowledge sharing with specified Client representative (s)

Provide a report containing details of the engagement activities, findings and status including the following:

Configuration information changes for RH OCP

Solution specific implementation details

Operational procedures and operational management

Guidance, advice and recommendations for optimizing and improving the Red Hat environment based on Red Hat enterprise experience

Recommendations for potential process or tool changes to optimize the OCP environment

Provide Daily Report, other reports as required

Create SOP

Work along with Various Client Stakeholders from Customer location

Work along with Redhat Stakeholders including but not limited to Redhat Support, Account Team, Consulting Delivery team

What will you bring:

5+ years of Openshift cluster administration experience

Has a good knowledge on managing container infra setup and should be able to perform the above responsibilities.

Bachelor''s degree or higher in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

RH certification is preferred.

Good Troubleshooting skills for Openshift clusters

L2 Support and Administration Experience for Openshift clusters

Has experience in working with Large customer setups

Preferred work experience for Indian customers

Experience in working at customer locations. This job is in Mumbai

Has excellent Communication skills to drive technical conversations with the customer.

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