Tieto Tech Consulting, is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer (OpenShift, On-Prem), a professional who will join a project within a Telecom Team for our respectful client BICS.
Join the team of our customer BICS — a global telecommunication enabler with a physical network stretching through the globe! Grow your expertise through interacting with A-level mobile carriers from all over the world. Get your hands on the vast network with on land, underwater, and space points of presence.Join our decade-long partnership with BICS to ensure confidence in your future and long-term growth! TietoEvry-BICS team has been growing since 2010... and we are looking forward to grow with you! * Develop your telecom expertise in diverse portfolio of BICS products, including Voice, Cloud, Signaling, LTE, IoT, etc. * Enjoy unmatched growth opportunities with BICS vast network and customers around the world. * Become a part of the international 24/7, follow-the-sun telecom team with presence from Brazil to Singapore.
Tietoevry — BICS team has been growing since 2010... and we are looking forward to growing with you!
Areas of Responsibility * Engage with business stakeholders to gather requirements and design solutions that align with engineering standards and support business needs. * Design, implement, and manage Red Hat OpenShift clusters in on-premises (physical and virtualised) environments. * Take ownership of systems engineering projects related to OpenShift infrastructure. * Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications and optimize deployment and release workflows. * Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using OpenShift and associated DevOps tools. * Automate operational and deployment tasks using Ansible and other scripting tools. * Perform patching and upgrades of OpenShift clusters, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, and related components in compliance with change-management procedures. * Design, implement, and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and redundancy strategies. * Participate in on-call / standby rotation to support critical platform and infrastructure services and ensure service continuity. * Support daily operations including trend analysis, root cause analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of platform issues to ensure high availability and reliability. * Implement and enforce security best practices, including RBAC, vulnerability management, and compliance controls. * Improve alerting, monitoring, and observability capabilities across OpenShift and related systems. * When OpenShift-related workload is limited, perform general system administration activities, including Linux server administration, infrastructure maintenance, and support of data center services as part of the infrastructure team. * Produce and maintain up-to-date documentation, including architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and runbooks. * Provide knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training to colleagues on OpenShift, GitLab, and related infrastructure technologies.
Qualifications * 5+ years of relevant professional experience or equivalent certifications (including Red Hat OpenShift), with at least 5 years in IT infrastructure or platform engineering. * Proven hands-on experience deploying, operating, and maintaining OpenShift / Kubernetes platforms in enterprise or on-premise environments. * Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, particularly using GitLab CI and/or Jenkins. * Solid background in Linux system administration, especially Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), including design and maintenance of enterprise Linux infrastructure. * Practical experience with infrastructure automation using Ansible or similar tools. * Scripting skills using Bash and/or Python for automation and operational tasks. * Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD or Flux. * Ability to document architectures, configurations, and standards, and to develop and maintain SOPs and technical documentation. * Upper-intermediate level of English (both spoken and written).
Will be an advantage * Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering or Computer Science. * Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform is a plus. * Experience working with virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware) is an advantage. * Knowledge of ITIL Service Operations principles. * Experience with ArgoCD, monitoring/observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.), or disaster recovery tooling (optional but valuable).
Personality & Soft Skills * Solution-oriented mindset. * Strong analytical and technical problem-solving abilities. * Ability to work autonomously with minimal guidance, operate at multiple levels of abstraction, and handle ambiguity effectively. * Ability to understand business drivers, stakeholder expectations, and translate them into technical solutions. * Ability to balance strategic considerations with operational practicality. * Excellent communication and collaboration skills; capable of influencing, guiding, and leading distributed technical teams. * Ability to produce high-quality architectural documentation and visual design diagrams (e.g., Visio). * Passionate about technology and its impact on business outcomes. * Highly motivated team player with a “can-do” attitude, dedication, transparency, and integrity. * Comfortable working in a multicultural, international environment.
