Infrastructure Engineer - OpenShift

This is an excellent opportunity for Infrastructure Engineers to be part of leading-edge technology projects. Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure & Security Services Practice provides end-to-end solutions covering architecture, design, implementation, management, and on-going support across the entire enterprise technology infrastructure. Our services include a spectrum of management, consulting, and systems integration services to help our clients maximize value in their infrastructure resources, while optimizing infrastructure performance and cost.

About the Role

We're looking for an engineer to design, deploy, and support our virtualization and container platforms. You'll manage Hyper-V/Openshift environments, automate operations, and help migrate workloads to modern container platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Openshift/Hyper-V clusters, including live migration, replication, and capacity planning
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Terraform, and PowerShell
• Build CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Jenkins, Tekton, ArgoCD)
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, networking, and storage issues
• Apply security and access controls (RBAC, SCC, patching)
• Plan and execute VMware-to-OpenShift/Hyper V migrations
• Document processes and support on-call rotations

Required Skills

• Good with Openshift or Hyper-V, Windows Server, Failover Clustering, and SCVMM
• Strong Linux (RHEL) administration
• Scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Experience with Ansible, Git, and CI/CD tools
• Solid grasp of networking (DNS, VLANs, load balancing) and storage (CSI, ODF/Ceph)

Nice to Have Skills

• Java/Spring Boot, Go, or Python application experience
• Red Hat certifications (EX280, EX180) or CKA
• Azure Stack HCI, Azure, or AWS
• Prometheus, Grafana, ELK