Openshift SME: versions. someone who has built the platform

Open Shift Operations & Platform Management

* Operational Leadership & Governance: Own the operational health, lifecycle, and governance of Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms. Drive standards, procedures, and operational readiness across all environments.
* Incident Management Leadership: Lead major incidents, coordinate cross team response, ensure timely restoration, manage communication, and drive root-cause and permanent corrective action.
* Reliability & Stability Improvements: Lead initiatives to enhance resilience, reduce platform incidents, eliminate recurring issues, and increase automation maturity.
* Operational Automation & Toil Reduction: Direct automation strategy for run operations, leveraging Python, GitOps, AI-assisted tooling, or self service workflows to reduce manual effort.
* OpenShift Platform Readiness: Lead OpenShift cluster lifecycle activities, including new cluster builds, configuration, onboarding, upgrades, and cluster decommissioning, ensuring consistency, reliability, and compliance across environments.
* Cross Team Operational Enablement: Influence engineering, security, and development teams to adopt consistent operational patterns, guardrails, and readiness practices.
* Compliance & Controls: Ensure adherence to regulatory, security, and audit requirements; maintain strong operational hygiene and documentation.
* Mentorship & Team Development: Guide other team members, develop skill maturity, and strengthen operational best practices across the organization.
Required Qualifications:
* 8+ year’s experience in Systems Operations, Cloud Operations, SRE, or related operational roles
* 6+ years in Kubernetes/OpenShift platform operations
* 4+ years Linux systems operations experience
* Experience leading operational teams or platform operations functions
* Strong record of operational automation and incident leadership