Middle DevOps Engineer (OpenShift, On-Prem) – Tieto Tech Consulting (m/f/d)

Tieto Tech Consulting, is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Middle 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

• 3+ years of relevant professional experience or equivalent certifications (including Red Hat OpenShift), with at least 4 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.