IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/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.