Job Description
Job Title:  Openshift Lead
City:  Chennai
State/Province:  Tamil Nadu
Posting Start Date:  3/30/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description: 

Job Description

 

Role Purpose


The purpose of this role is to provide significant technical expertise in architecture planning and design of the concerned tower (platform, database, middleware, backup etc) as well as managing its day-to-day operations

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OpenShift Lead

 

  • Install, configure, administer, and manage Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) clusters on Bare Metal and VMware platforms.
  • Perform OpenShift patching and version upgrades with minimal impact to production workloads.
  • Maintain and support existing DevOps infrastructure pipelines integrated with OpenShift.
  • Create, manage, and troubleshoot persistent storage, including file systems and persistent volumes.
  • Configure and manage RBAC and security policies across clusters.
  • Configure and manage Ingress Controllers, Routes, and network load balancers.
  • Support inter-cluster communication and hybrid/multi-cluster architectures.
  • Apply strong understanding of networking and firewall concepts in Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
  • Troubleshoot cluster networking, DNS, and connectivity issues.
  • Monitor cluster, node, and application health using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
  • Configure alerts, dashboards, and metrics for proactive monitoring.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks and recommend optimization measures.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues related to cluster performance, storage, networking, and application deployments.
  • Resolve pod and container runtime issues.

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OpenShift 

 

  • Install, configure, administer, and manage Red Hat OpenShift (OCP) clusters on Bare Metal and VMware platforms.
  • Perform OpenShift patching and version upgrades with minimal impact to production workloads.
  • Maintain and support existing DevOps infrastructure pipelines integrated with OpenShift.
  • Create, manage, and troubleshoot persistent storage, including file systems and persistent volumes.
  • Configure and manage RBAC and security policies across clusters.
  • Configure and manage Ingress Controllers, Routes, and network load balancers.
  • Support inter-cluster communication and hybrid/multi-cluster architectures.
  • Apply strong understanding of networking and firewall concepts in Kubernetes and OpenShift environments.
  • Troubleshoot cluster networking, DNS, and connectivity issues.
  • Monitor cluster, node, and application health using Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
  • Configure alerts, dashboards, and metrics for proactive monitoring.
  • Identify performance bottlenecks and recommend optimization measures.
  • Troubleshoot complex issues related to cluster performance, storage, networking, and application deployments.
  • Resolve pod and container runtime issues.
  • Respond to production issues in a timely and professional manner, meeting SLAs.

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Deliver

No Performance Parameter Measure
1 Operations of the tower SLA adherence
Knowledge management
CSAT/ Customer Experience
Identification of risk issues and mitigation plans
Knowledge management
2 New projects Timely delivery
Avoid unauthorised changes 
No formal escalations

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Mandatory Skills: OpenShift .

 

Experience: 5-8 Years .

 

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