# IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator

> InnovationTeam · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Full-time · Posted 2026-07-19

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** IT

## Description

**Position Overview:**

The IBM CP4I OpenShift Operations/Administrator is a systems infrastructure specialist responsible for designing, deploying, securing, and maintaining our enterprise hybrid-cloud integration architecture. Sitting at the intersection of Cloud DevOps and Middleware Engineering, this role focuses on the end-to-end administration of IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP) to guarantee high availability and continuous automated pipeline scaling.

**Core Responsibilities:**

-   **Cluster & CP4I Deployment:** Plan, architect, install, and configure Red Hat OpenShift clusters across hybrid cloud environments, provisioning the core IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) platform using Operator Lifecycle Managers (OLM).
-   **Integration Component Management:** Manage and lifecycle-configure core CP4I capabilities via their respective IBM operators, including IBM MQ, API Connect, App Connect (ACE), Event Streams (Kafka), and Aspera.
-   **Security & Identity Governance:** Secure cluster infrastructures by enforcing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), managing Red Hat OpenShift OAuth integrations, Keycloak/IAM identity layers, and SSL/TLS certificate configurations.
-   **Compute, Storage & Lifecycle:** Architect container persistent storage layers using Software-Defined Storage engines and schedule seamless cluster upgrades, security patching, and node updates with a zero-downtime objective.
-   **Performance Diagnostics & Triage:** Configure APM surveillance dashboards, automate multi-tenant provisioning using GitOps paradigms, and systematically troubleshoot complex cluster degradation events, persistent volume failures, and pod networking drops.

## Requirements

**Required Skills & Qualifications:**

-   **Education:** Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related technical system discipline.
-   **Core Engineering Track Record:** Deep, practical engineering experience managing production-grade Red Hat OpenShift clusters and administering IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) components.
-   **Architecture & Pattern Competency:** Solid knowledge of Software-Defined Networking (SDN/OVN), Ingress/Route architectures, service meshes (Istio), network policies, and container security compliance scanning.
-   **Security & Protocol Familiarity:** Strong technical comprehension of enterprise integration patterns, containerized message-queuing mechanics, and API lifecycle architectures.
-   **Analytical Evaluation:** Exceptional analytical and systemic debugging capabilities, possessing a high technical attention to container density logs and compute sizing variables.

**Technical Toolkit & Systems:**

-   **Core Development Environments:** Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (RHOCP), OKD, Kubernetes, CoreOS, IBM CP4I, IBM MQ, API Connect, ACE, Event Streams, DataPower.
-   **Programming Languages & UI Engines:** Linux CLI, Bash, Python scripting, OpenShift CLI (oc), kubectl.
-   **Networking, Core APIs & Engines:** Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), Ceph, Portworx, CSI plugins, AWS EBS/EFS.
-   **Dependency & Repository Managers:** Ansible, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm Charts, Customize, OLM Operators, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Tekton, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenShift Logging, Sysdig.
-   **Enterprise Project Management Suites:** Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO), or Microsoft TFS.

**Collaboration & Soft Skills:**

-   **High-Stakes Resolution & Composure:** Maintains absolute composure and structured focus when critical, production cluster failures or microservice outages emerge. Coordinates systematic fixes and clear mitigation strategies under pressure, keeping high-availability platforms operational.
-   **Distributed Workspace Collaborative Partner:** Highly capable of performing smoothly across remote or hybrid team environments, translating complex container infrastructure realities into actionable deployment guidelines for integration teams.
-   **Pristine Quality Advocate:** Constantly champions structural automation, infrastructure-as-code consistency, and strict platform compliance, steering teams away from localized, manually modified configuration anti-patterns.
-   **Language & Communication Excellence:** Fluent English (written and verbal) is required. **Spoken and written Arabic is highly advantageous and preferred.**

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