Lead OCP Engineer

Hello Professionals,
Position: Lead OCP Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX / Charlotte, NC (ONSITE)

W2 position

Job Description
In this role, you will:
Design, influence, and execute transformation required for Open Shift adoption across the enterprise while ensuring alignment with architecture, security, and other key Technology frameworks.
Evangelize opportunities, challenges, and security advantages of integrated OpenShift services.
Develop and implement cloud-based procedures, continuous monitoring, compliance, and cloud asset inventory strategies.
Proactively prioritize, analyze, and address complex problems and incidents to ensure the highest level of environment stability and availability.
Utilize analytical and problem-solving skills to define problems, proactively innovate, provide credible challenge, and translate vision into strategic solutions.
Support complex technology Cloud initiatives including those that are companywide with broad impact.
Resolve coding, testing and escalated platform issues of a technically challenging nature.
Ensure systems are monitored to increase operational efficiency and managed to mitigate risk.
Partner with production support and platform engineering teams effectively.
Make decisions in developing standards and companywide best practices for engineering and large-scale technology solutions. Design, Optimization and Documentation of the Engineering aspects of the Cloud platform.
Understanding of 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 members on OpenShift best practices.

Required Qualifications, International:
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 of hands-on experience working with OpenShift and have a proven track record of building complex infrastructure programmatically through automation and scripting(bash, Python).
5+ years of experience in building, deploying, securing, and managing OpenShift 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, Harness, ArgoCD.
3+ years of experience with monitoring, logging, observability tools (Splunk, Grafana, AppD, New Relic, Elastic, Open Telemetry)
Drive architectural discussions and serve 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.
In depth, practical experience with Cloud methodologies (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), automation, orchestration, trends, and industry-leading cloud vendor offerings.
Experienced in implementing risk and control requirements for cloud infrastructure.
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and hybrid infrastructure setups.
Knowledge of networking, security, and storage concepts as they relate to containerized environments.
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
Ability to deliver & engage with partners effectively in a multi-cultural environment by demonstrating co-ownership & accountability in a matrix structure.
Delivery focus and willingness to work in a fast-paced, enterprise environment.

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