IBM CP4I OpenShift Operation Administrator
Position overview:
The IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator is a systems infrastructure specialist responsible for designing, deploying, securing, and maintaining our enterprise hybrid-cloud integration architecture. Sitting at the intersection of cloud DevOps and middleware engineering, this role focuses 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.
Core responsibilities:
Cluster & CP4I deployment: Plan, architect, install, and configure Red Hat OpenShift clusters across hybrid cloud environments, provisioning the core IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) platform using Operator Lifecycle Managers (OLM).
Integration component management: Manage and lifecycle-configure core CP4I capabilities via their respective IBM operators, including IBM MQ, API Connect, App Connect (ACE), Event Streams (Kafka), and Aspera.
Security & identity governance: 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.
Compute, storage & lifecycle: 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.
Performance diagnostics & triage: 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.
Requirements
Required skills & qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or a closely related technical system discipline.
Core engineering track record: Deep, practical engineering experience managing production-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters and administering IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components.
Architecture & pattern competency: Solid knowledge of software-defined networking (SDN/OVN), ingress/route architectures, service meshes (Istio), network policies, and container security compliance scanning.
Security & protocol familiarity: Strong technical comprehension of enterprise integration patterns, containerized message-queuing mechanics, and API lifecycle architectures.
Analytical evaluation: Exceptional analytical and systemic debugging capabilities, possessing a high technical attention to container density logs and compute sizing variables.
Technical toolkit & systems:
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.
Collaboration & soft skills:
High-stakes resolution & composure: Maintains absolute composure and structured focus when critical, production cluster failures or microservice outages emerge. Coordinates systematic fixes and clear mitigation strategies under pressure, keeping high-availability platforms operational.
Distributed workspace collaborative partner: Highly capable of performing smoothly across remote or hybrid team environments, translating complex container infrastructure realities into actionable deployment guidelines for integration teams.
Pristine quality advocate: Constantly champions structural automation, infrastructure-as-code consistency, and strict platform compliance, steering teams away from localized, manually modified configuration anti-patterns.
Language & communication excellence: Fluent English (written and verbal) is required. Spoken and written Arabic is highly advantageous and preferred.