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Job Summary

Sr Staff Data Center & OpenShift Operations Engineer

Position Overview

The Senior Data Center Operations Engineer is responsible for the bedrock of our high-availability infrastructure. This role bridges the gap between physical hardware and the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). Your mission is to ensure 99.99% availability by architecting resilient physical layouts and automating the deployment, scaling, and self-healing capabilities of our production clusters.

Key Responsibilities

• High-Availability (HA) Infrastructure: Monitor and maintain data center systems with a focus on "Zero Single Point of Failure" (ZSPoF) architecture for OpenShift control planes and worker nodes.

• Cluster Reliability Engineering: Implement and manage OpenShift 4.x clusters across multiple power and cooling zones to ensure 99.99% uptime.

• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Design, test, and execute automated failover strategies and backup/restore procedures using tools like OADP (Velero) and Red Hat ACM.

• Automated Maintenance: Perform routine maintenance and upgrades using GitOps (ArgoCD) and the Machine Config Operator to ensure zero-downtime node evacuations and patching.

• Complex Troubleshooting: Resolve deep-stack hardware and software issues, from faulty GPU firmware to OpenShift SDN (OVN-Kubernetes) network latencies.

• Vendor & Lifecycle Management: Coordinate with vendors for specialized hardware (e.g., NVIDIA, Dell, Cisco) while maintaining strict security and firmware compliance.

• Efficiency & Capacity Architecture: Optimize rack density for high-performance GPU clusters while managing thermal loads and power distribution (PDU) to prevent circuit-trip outages.

• Observability Implementation: Maintain accurate documentation and integrate hardware health metrics (IPMI/SNMP) into Prometheus/Grafana for proactive alerting.

• Physical Deployment: Rack and stack high-density GPU servers, ensuring redundant power-pathing and high-speed (100G/200G) InfiniBand or Ethernet cabling.

• Hardware Lifecycle: Perform precision physical installation and replacement of critical components (CPUs, GPUs, NVMe storage) in a live production environment without impacting cluster quorum.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.

• Platform Expertise: 5+ years of experience specifically operating Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) in a production environment.

• Hardware Fluency: Deep experience racking/stacking and cabling high-density GPU systems (e.g., NVIDIA DGX or similar) and specialized AI/ML hardware.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Advanced proficiency in Ansible or Pulumi for automating bare-metal provisioning and cluster configuration.

• Scripting: Strong