Infrastructure Engineer - OpenShift

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

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.