OpenShift Engineer

Role: OpenShift Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC (Onsite)

Type: Contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with Tanzu Application Service (TAS) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• Resolve coding, testing, and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
• Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and manage to mitigate risk.

• Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.
• Make decisions in developing standards and company-wide best practices for engineering and large-scale technology solutions.
• Design, optimize, and document engineering aspects of the cloud platform.
• Understand industry best practices and new technologies, influencing and leading technology team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
• Define opportunities to maximize resource utilization and improve processes while reducing cost.
• Collaborate and consult with key technical experts, senior technology team, and external industry groups to resolve complex technical issues and achieve goals.
• Work in a globally distributed team to provide innovative and robust cloud-centric solutions.
• Maintain system documentation and provide training and support to team on TAS, PCF, OpenShift best practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 5+ years working with Tanzu Application Service (TAS) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• 5+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
• 5+ years working with OpenShift/Kubernetes and have a proven track record of building complex infrastructure programmatically through automation and scripting.
• 5+ years of experience in building, deploying, securing, and managing OpenShift or Kubernetes across various environments.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux operating systems and container orchestration.
• 3+ years of experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience with Agile, CI/CD, DevOps concepts, including tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or Tekton.
• 3+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, AppD, New Relic, Elastic, Open Telemetry).

• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and hybrid infrastructure setups.
• 3+ years driving architectural discussions and serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for high visibility cloud initiatives to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment, security, cost effectiveness, and high availability in the private cloud space.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, trends, and industry-leading cloud vendor offerings.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working with cloud security management or governance tools.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280) or similar certification.
• Knowledge of service mesh, load balancers, DDI technologies.
• Knowledge of networking, security, and storage concepts as they relate to containerized environments.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
• Ability to deliver and engage with partners effectively in a multi-cultural environment by demonstrating co-ownership and accountability in a matrix structure.
• Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced enterprise environment.
• Experienced in implementing risk and control requirements for cloud infrastructure.