IT System Expert

## Join our Team

About This Opportunity

We are seeking a highly skilled IT System Expert with strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, deployment, administration, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of OpenShift container platforms and Linux infrastructure. Experience with Oracle Solaris administration is desirable.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) environments.
• Install, configure, upgrade, patch, and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) servers.
• Manage OpenShift clusters, including control plane and worker nodes, operators, and platform services.
• Perform cluster health monitoring, capacity planning, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Implement and maintain security hardening, RBAC, authentication, certificate management, and compliance standards.
• Support containerized application deployments and CI/CD integration.
• Perform operating system patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot Linux OS, OpenShift platform, networking, storage, and container-related issues.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, application, database, and security teams to resolve complex technical issues.
• Develop and maintain automation using Ansible and shell scripting.
• Prepare technical documentation, SOPs, architecture diagrams, and operational runbooks.
• Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management processes.
• Provide Level 3 technical support and serve as the technical escalation point for OpenShift and Linux platforms.

Required Skills

• 8–10+ years of IT Infrastructure Administration.
• Strong hands-on experience with Red Hat OpenShift (OCP 4.x) administration.
• Strong administration experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9).
• Good understanding of Kubernetes architecture, container orchestration, and container runtime technologies.
• Experience with OpenShift Operators, Routes, Projects, Networking, Storage Classes, Persistent Volumes, and Image Registry.
• Linux system administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and security hardening.
• Experience with Ansible, Bash/Shell scripting, and infrastructure automation.
• Good knowledge of networking concepts, including DNS, TCP/IP, Load Balancers, Firewalls, and SSL/TLS.
• Experience integrating enterprise storage solutions (SAN/NFS/CSI).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.

Good to Have

• Oracle Solaris (10/11) administration.
• Red Hat Satellite.
• Kubernetes certifications and container security knowledge.

Preferred Certifications

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration
• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

What happens once you apply?Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: United Arab Emirates (AE) || Dubai

Req ID: 788282