At Sumerge, our Platform Engineering team is at the core of our operational excellence, setting up robust infrastructure and integrating cutting-edge DevOps tools across diverse projects and client environments.
The team specializes in deploying and managing container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes and Redhat OpenShift, and expertly configures databases such as MongoDB, event streaming platforms like Kafka to ensure seamless, scalable, and secure operations.
By automating and optimizing our development pipelines, our platform engineers design, implement, maintain, and continuously improve the organization's platforms and infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated build, test, and deployment.
Support frequent, reliable, and secure application releases.
Provision and manage cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, ARM, or CloudFormation.
Ensure scalability, availability, and cost optimization of environments.
Automate system provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks.
Maintain configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.
). Design, deploy, upgrade, patch, and maintain container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift or other orchestration platform operations).
Manage cluster lifecycle, node scaling, and infrastructure optimization, configure and support OpenShift data foundation (ODF) Configure monitoring and logging and provide support and response for any incident.
Deploy, configure, and manage IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) components (containers & traditional) including Business Automation Workflow, Business Automation Studio, FileNet Content Platform Engine, Operational Decision Manager, and Automation Document Processing.
Deploy, configure, and manage IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components (CP4I) components (containers & traditional).
Perform day-to-day administration, monitoring, tuning, and patching of all Cloud Pak deployments.
Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for all Cloud Pak services using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, and IBM Cloud Pak System Health.
Deploy, configure, and manage Confluent.
Deploy, configure, and manage Elasticsearch.
Reduce manual intervention and operational overhead.
Build, manage, and optimize containerized applications.
Ensure secure and efficient container runtime environments.
Troubleshoot issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
Manage secrets, access control, and secure configurations.
Support vulnerability scanning, patching, and compliance requirements.
Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams.
Promote DevOps culture, best practices, and continuous improvement.
Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and deployment guides.
Support audits and operational reviews.
Degree or Diploma in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent.
+4 years’ experience in similar position.
Strong Experience with Linux/Windows server administration.
Good Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), and scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
Good Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift).
Good Experience with monitoring & observability tools.
Good Experience with IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components is a plus.
Good Experience with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation (CP4BA) components is a plus.
Good Experience with Confluent is a plus.
Good Experience with Elasticsearch.
Good Experience with networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, load balancers).
Good Experience with security best practices, IAM, secrets management, and compliance.
Managing production environments with high availability, scalability, and performance tuning.
Incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
Managing backups, DR plans, and systems resilience.
Strong knowledge of SLA/SLO/SI and service reliability practices.
Incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
Skills A high level of initiative and ingenuity is required.
A high level of trustworthiness is required, as the individual will be working with sensitive and confidential data.
Need to be able to plan and regularly meet reporting deadlines.
Possess a high sense of belonging to the company.
Motivated and always willing to work hard to help company achieve if not exceed, business targets and other goals.
Possess ability to work as a team as well as ability to work with minimum supervision.
Time management.
Delegation and monitoring.
Problem solving.
Team building.
Communication.
Working under pressure.
