Chandigarh's IT Park has a Junior OpenShift Administrator opening, full time, on site, with a cloud and DevOps team supporting containerized workloads for internal and client-facing applications. No prior professional experience is required, though the team wants to see real hands-on container experience, even from personal projects or coursework, rather than purely conceptual familiarity with Kubernetes.
The role covers provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure, automating deployment pipelines, monitoring system performance and reliability, and responding to infrastructure incidents as they come up. OpenShift adds a layer of enterprise tooling on top of Kubernetes that takes real time to get comfortable with, and the team expects a genuine ramp-up period rather than immediate independent ownership.
Required skills are OpenShift specifically, Kubernetes fundamentals, container orchestration concepts, and solid Linux administration basics. A bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field is expected, along with hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and automated deployment pipelines, even at a learning-project level.
Chandigarh's IT Park has become a genuinely competitive tech hub over the past decade, and the DevOps team here supports a mix of internal tooling and client-facing applications, which gives a junior administrator exposure to different reliability requirements depending on which workload they're currently supporting.
Naukri Mitra has listed cloud and DevOps roles from this employer before, and junior administrators who joined recently describe the first month as focused almost entirely on understanding the existing cluster architecture before touching anything in production, a deliberate pace the team maintains given how disruptive a container orchestration mistake can be at scale.
Interviews include a technical round on container fundamentals and a hands-on exercise deploying a sample application. Candidates who ask about resource limits and scaling behavior during the exercise, not just whether the deployment succeeded, tend to stand out.
Career progression from this seat tends to follow a fairly clear path: strong performers in a Junior OpenShift Administrator role typically move up one level within eighteen months to two years, taking on broader ownership of OpenShift work rather than a fixed set of tickets. The team has said this progression isn't automatic and depends on genuinely stepping up during that window, not just accumulating tenure.
The wider infrastructure team here has doubled in size over the past eighteen months as container adoption has spread beyond the original pilot projects, and a junior administrator joining now gets to help shape conventions that are still being actively settled, rather than inheriting a fully fixed set of standards from years earlier.
A pod that keeps restarting without an obvious error in its own logs is often actually a resource limit problem one layer up, and junior administrators here are taught to check cluster-level events before assuming the application code itself is at fault.
The team runs a weekly internal knowledge-sharing session where someone walks through a recent incident or a new tool feature, and junior administrators are expected to present at least once during their first six months, a requirement the team says forces a deeper understanding than simply using a tool without ever having to explain it to someone else.
The DevOps team keeps a shared runbook of past cluster incidents and their resolutions, and junior administrators are expected to reference it during their first several months rather than troubleshooting every new issue as if it were entirely unprecedented.
This role is based at IT Park, Chandigarh, pin code 160101, five days a week on site. Pay is up to ₹39,000 a month. The team hopes to fill this seat within four weeks.