Sr. Consultant: OpenShift & ArgoCD

Job Description

A client of Insight Global is seeking a Senior Consultant with deep expertise in Red Hat OpenShift, GitOps methodologies, and Argo CD to support the design, implementation, and optimization of modern application delivery platforms. This individual will act as a technical leader and trusted advisor, working closely with platform engineering, DevOps, security, and application teams to build scalable, secure, and repeatable Kubernetes-based environments. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience deploying and managing OpenShift clusters, implementing GitOps workflows using Argo CD to enable declarative, version-controlled deployments, and establishing standardized CI/CD integrations with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Azure DevOps. This consultant will be responsible for defining best practices around multi-environment promotion strategies, repository structures, and deployment patterns using Helm, Kustomize, and Operators, while also ensuring alignment with enterprise security and compliance requirements through policies such as RBAC, secrets management, and policy-as-code frameworks. Strong experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible or Terraform, as well as Kubernetes administration fundamentals, is required. The role also includes mentoring client teams, creating technical documentation and runbooks, and driving adoption of GitOps practices across engineering organizations.

Skills and Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, SRE, or Kubernetes-focused consulting roles.

• 3+ years of hands-on expertise with Red Hat OpenShift administration and/or engineering (install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot).

• Experience with OpenShift GitOps (ArgoCD)

• Strong working knowledge of GitOps principles and design, deployment, and implementation of Argo CD (applications, app-of-apps patterns, sync waves, health checks, RBAC, Projects, multi-cluster patterns).

• Proficiency with Kubernetes fundamentals: workloads, services, ingress, storage, networking, scheduling, and cluster operations.

• Experience with IaC and automation: Ansible, Terraform, or similar.

• Comfort operating in Linux environments; scripting in Bash/Python a plus. Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical conversations with both engineering teams and stakeholders.

• Experience with OpenShift ecosystem components such as:

• OpenShift Hosted Control Planes (HCP)

• OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)

• Advanced Cluster Management (ACM)

• Service Mesh (Istio), OpenShift Virtualization, Quay, etc. Certifications: Red Hat (RHCSA/RHCE/RHCA), CKA/CKAD, or equivalent.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].